Typical rural New England scene. Dairy Farming in New England
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1 1. 2. Typical rural New England scene Page - 1
2 3. Farms are family legacies 4. Housing western U.S. Page - 2
3 5. Confinement housing stanchion barn 6. Cow in stanchion Page - 3
4 7. Individual animal attention in stanchion 8. Comfort stalls Page - 4
5 9. Feeding in barn 10. Robotic feeder Page - 5
6 11. Loose housing 12. Group housing - calves Page - 6
7 13. Free stalls with mattresses 14. Free stall barn large farm Page - 7
8 15. Free stall barn small farm 16. Feeds and feeding Page - 8
9 17. Feed bunk in free stall barn 18. Horizontal silo Page - 9
10 19. Horizontal silo plastic cover 20. Cured silage Page - 10
11 21. Fence line feeder 22. Pasture Page - 11
12 23. Milking 24. Milking parlor Page - 12
13 25. Full bulk tank 26. Calf and heifer raising Page - 13
14 27. Group pen and individual tied newborns 28. Calf pens Page - 14
15 29. Individual calf stalls 30. Elevated individual calf stalls Page - 15
16 31. Calf hutches 32. Calf hutches large Western farm Page - 16
17 33. Manure management 34. Barn cleaner emptying into manure spreader Page - 17
18 35. Manure spreader 36. Health Page - 18
19 37. Clinical veterinary service 38. In-clinic veterinary laboratory Page - 19
20 39. Common veterinary products 40. Infusing an antibiotic for mastitis Page - 20
21 41. Field surgery preparation 42. Dairy production medicine Page - 21
22 43. Monitoring for subclinical disease 44. Aspects of dairy production medicine Page - 22
23 45. Computer records 46. Guidelines for extra-label drug use Page - 23
24 47. Thank you Page - 24
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