Your 4-H dairy calf will provide you with a wonderful and worthwhile experience. You will gain new knowledge and skills through real life experiences and will realize the satisfaction and dignity of work. As you care for your calf daily, you will learn the true meaning of responsibility. The calf...
As you progress in this more advanced area of your dairy project, you should find many interesting and challenging experiences.
How you develop this phase of your project depends somewhat on your home situation. If you live on a dairy farm and have a commercial market for milk, you will...
The dairy cow project may be a new project for you or a continuation of a calf and yearling project. This advanced dairy project will be interesting and provide many challenging experiences.
The dairy cow project is Unit III of the four-unit dairy project. Unit I The Calf is suggested...
Science is involved in many areas of dairying. The 4-H
Dairy Science Project emphasizes the "why's" of dairying. The
information you learn here should help you with other dairy projects.
You will learn some of the "why's" of selection, nutrition, milk
secretion, and reproduction as well as "how to do...
When you want to talk about dairy cattle with someone, you need accurate, meaningful vocabulary words (terminology or terms) in order to understand each other. When you give a set of reasons, an accurate set of terms is just as important as it is in conversation. Also, to compare one...
Reprinted November 2005. Reviewed 07/07/14. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog