Visiting the Dairy Barns...

This morning, I had an Animal Science lab in the Dairy Barn... I even took pictures for proof! We didn't actually do much (I'm sure that's coming soon though...) but we did look around and judge a few cows on conformation, and worked on ID'ing different dairy cow tools and looking at mastitis milk tests... Here's some pics! I had more, but, shockingly, cows are not extremely photogenic...

We talked about why some of these cows look thin (this pic doesn't show it perfectly) Apparently it's because most of their energy goes to milk production.

These were the first time pregnant moms.

Our professor discussing conformation...

If you look near the back of the barrel on this cow, you can see that circular disc thing? That opens up so you can reach into the cows rumen and harvest rumen fluid. It's pretty cool- The cow can do whatever, have babies, produce milk, etc.

Okay, that's all the cow pictures! Hopefully back to horses soon....