Introduction
- Milking is an art, requires skill and experience.
- Milking should be conducted quietly, quickly,gently, cleanly and completely without any pain, annoyance or inconvenience to animal.
Characteristics of good milking:
a) Milking at regular interval.
b) Fast within stipulated period.
c) Milking completely
d) Use of sanitary measures.
Advantages
- High milk yield.
- Quality milk production.
- Less occurrence of mastitis.
- More profit per cow.