STUDY ON THE FACTORS INFLUENCING COW MILK PRODUCTION IN DAIRY COWS

Abstract

Cow milk production in cattle on dairy farms is influenced by a series of factors such as the factors influencing individual production and factors that influence total, delivered production. Since cow milk production varies from dairy cow to dairy cow, the factors influencing it can be grouped into factors that influence it directly and factors that influence it indirectly. Knowing these factors is extremely important since some of them have a negative influence on cow milk production; this is why their action should be limited unlike other factors that have a positive influence and whose action should be stimulated. Mil production per dairy cow depends, on one hand, on genetic potential and on individual development conditions that determine the so-called “productive capacity†and, on the other hand, by the environmental and exploitation conditions that turn this productive capacity into reality or not. Therefore, real cow milk production per dairy cow is influenced by both heredity and environmental conditions that can favour or hinder a genetically determined cow milk production.