dairy

dairy

1. a retail outlet for milk products.

2. the feeding and milking sheds on a dairy farm.

3. pertaining to or emanating from an animals or other thing concerned in the production of milk, e.g. dairy goat, dairy cleanser.

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dairy barn

standard indoor housing in temperate and subarctic northern hemisphere countries; a common plan is to have animals housed on the ground floor and grain and hay on the top floor from which it is delivered to the animals below; the cows are tied in stanchions and milked on the spot or roam free and are milked in a parlor.

dairy breeds

see australian Shorthorn, ayrshire, brown swiss cattle, dairy shorthorn, jersey, guernsey, holstein-friesian, red poll, australian Milking Zebu, british white, dexter, jamaica hope, milking shorthorn.

dairy calf

calf of a mating between a bull and a cow, both of dairy breeds.

dairy cow

cow of a breed specifically defined as being for milk production, as distinct from a beef or dual purpose breed.

dairy farmer

a farmer whose major enterprise is dairy farming.

dairy herd

includes milking cows, dry cows, heifers (maiden and in-calf), calves and, where needed, bulls. Called also milking herd, dry herd, followers.

dairy herd improvement

a centralized system, usually sponsored by a government or a farmer-owned cooperative, for recording milk yield and assessing the productive status of individual cows. Recommendations are then made relative to culling or mating program for the individual cows. The central database provides information on which analyses of performance can be made relative to a multiplicity of variables, such as herd size, breed, times per day milking.

dairy industry

includes the farms, the milk collecting and handling services, the processors, manufacturers and retailers and the private and government organizations involved in a coordinating or controlling function with respect to the harvesting and disposal of dairy products.

dairy sanitizers

disinfectants suitable for use in an environment and in a situation in which contamination of the human food chain is likely to occur.