Dairy Farming Course

A good Dairy farming Course can teach you how to start dairy farming from scratch.

The dairy farming industry has grown tremendously in the past three decades and India is the largest milk-producing countries in the world with an estimate of 146.31 million tons of milk production on an annual basis which is around 22% of the global milk production.

USA and China are at the second and third position respectively behind India in the world milk production ranking.

However, still the dairy farming is practiced in India in primitive fashion.

Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Andhra Pradesh are the top three milk-producing states in India.

It is interesting to note here that India holds the first position even when most of its dairy farms are small and rural and still rely on the traditional method of dairy farming.

Needless to say, that it can achieve the pinnacle of heights with the usage of new-age technologies and strategic management of farms.

As dairy farming has now turned into a lucrative business, many dairy farming courses are available to educate dairy farmers.

These courses offer guidance to entrepreneurs as well as traditional dairy farmers who are looking to expand their business. Now, there are two types of courses available in the country.

Offline courses and Online courses.

To understand which course is best suited for your requirement, let us have a look at the available courses.

Dairy Farming Course Off-Line/Regular Courses

Many universities now offer occupational courses such as B.E Dairy Technology, MSc. Dairy Engineering, MSc Dairy Microbiology, MSc Dairy Science, Awareness Programme on Dairy Farming (APDF), etc.

It is important to note here that these B.E degree courses are for four years an MSc. Courses are of two years.

Also, for a bachelor’s degree, the minimum requirement is a 10+2 pass along with a minimum pass percentage or qualifying examination (differs from university to university) and for MSc. Degree course one must have completed bachelor’s degree in relevant field (differs as per the course and university).

These courses are fairly technical and relevant if you want to pursue a career with big shots in the industry.

Considering the fact that most of the dairy farmers in India are from a rural backgrounds and may not possess the necessary minimum qualification, it is difficult for them to apply for these courses.

Cost is another constraint for these courses. The fee structure for such courses may start from thousand and may go up to lakhs.

Still, these courses are recommended if you are looking for a professional dairy farming course.

Enlisting some of the universities for these courses:

• Anand Agricultural University, Gujrat;
• National Dairy Research Institute-NDRI, Karnal;
• College of Dairy and Food Science Technology, Mannuthy;
• Seth MC College of Dairy Science, Anand;
• Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Dairy Science and Technology, Patna;
• Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur

Dairy Farming Course – On-Line Courses

Online courses are much easier and more useful for marginal dairy farmers who cannot leave their farms for it can cause disturbance and losses in their farm due to their absence.

In the past two years, online courses have gained immense popularity due to ongoing pandemic in the world.

Even the regular courses are being conducted online now.

So, if we talk about online courses that are specifically designed for dairy farmers who can’t do a 4 year or 2-year degree course or don’t possess the necessary minimum qualification, or don’t have the means to afford the costly regular courses, they can always opt for short-term online courses.

Short-term courses, doesn’t mean that these courses are not thorough enough and don’t cover every aspect of dairy farming.

There are many good short-term online courses available that are virtuous for beginners as well as advanced learners.  One such highly recommended website for online courses is teplu .

Another plus point is that they don’t burn a hole in your pocket.  They are way cheaper than offline courses.

Also, you can have access to these lectures at the comfort of your home and at a time of your convenience.

Most of these courses provide lifetime excess.  You don’t need to enroll every year to view the lectures. Once you have paid for the course, you are good to go.

Dairy Farming Course Syllabus

You should know which topic you must learn in order to master the art of dairy farming.  Following topics should be part of any course on dairy farming.

Clean Milk Production

The following needs to be learnt to achieve clean milk production in dairy farming

• What is good quality milk?
• Harmful effects of antibiotics, aflatoxins, and adulterants on human and animal health.
• Science behind milking that improves milk yield and milk quality.
• Learn the correct usage of milking machine.
• Learn what can go wrong with milking machines.
• How to produce hygienic milk?
• How to detach milking unit?
• What is post-dipping?
• How to produce antibiotics /aflatoxin free milk?
• What to do if the milk is detected with high levels of aflatoxins?
• How to reduce the bacterial count of milk?
• How to reduce bacterial count of milk by cleaning equipment/ managing mastitis/ through bio-security?

Dairy Farming Course – Health and Disease Management

Disease occurrence is a regular phenomenon in any dairy farm and Effective management of diseases in the farm is essential to increase profits.  You must learn

• How to identify Foot and Mouth (FMD) disease and manage it?
• What is Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (HS) and how do you prevent it?
• What is Black Quarter (BS) and how to prevent it?
• How can Brucellosis affect the health of the animal as well as the farmer?
• What is Theileriosis and how it can be prevented?
• What should be the vaccination schedule and how to get it done?

——Which diseases are transmitted through ticks and flies?

• Anaplasmosis and its symptoms.
• What is Babesiosis and what are its symptoms?
• What is Trypanosomiasis or Surra and how to prevent it?

——Diseases that may occur in dairy animals while calving.

• What is Hypocalcaemia or milk fever and how to prevent it?
• What is Downer’s Cow Syndrome? Is it linked to Milk Fever?
• What is Ketosis and how to prevent it?
• What is Post Parturient Haemoglobinurea?
• What is Retention of Placenta (ROP)? How can it be prevented?
• Reasons for the Swelling or Oedema in udders.
• What are the reasons for Hypomagnesemia in dairy animals?

—–Disease in dairy animals due to poor feeding practices.

• What is Bloat and why does it happen?
• What is Acidosis and how to prevent it?
• How to reduce Laminitis in dairy animals?

—–How to control Udder infection or Mastitis?

• What is Mastitis and what are its types?
• What is Sub-Clinical Mastitis and how to perform the California Mastitis Test?
• What are the reasons for Mastitis in in-pregnancy and dry cows?
• What are the causes of Udder infection in dairy farms and how to control it?
• ‘Must do’ procedures to fight Mastitis in dairy farms.
• Care measures to be taken in case the animal gets affected by Mastitis.

—–Health Procedure and Diseases in calves.

• Dehorning of calves.
• Diseases in calves.
• Reasons for diarrhea in calves and its prevention.
• How to prevent naval infection in newborn calves?
• How to prevent Pneumonia in the calves?
• What is Wormload in calves and how to control it?
• What are the prevalent mineral deficiencies in calves? What are the measures to prevent it?

—–Other health-related problems in dairy animals.

• Rabies in animals and how to protect yourself.
• What is Foreign Body Syndrome?

 

Housing and Shed Construction, Design for dairy animals

Cow and buffalo housing planning includes following

• Housing of animals and its relation to a successful dairy farm.
• What are the factors to be considered while housing dairy animals?
• What factors should be kept in mind before selecting the land?
• Common housing types, their advantages, and disadvantages.
• Housing design for a farm of 20/100 dairy animals for desi or indigenous cows/buffaloes.
• Housing design for a Medium sized herd of 100 cross-bred/HF/jersey cows or buffaloes.
• Housing design for 200 cross-bred cows.
• Housing design for a large herd of 500 dairy animals.

 

Dairy farming course Nutrition for Dairy Animals

Nutrition management consists of

—– Feed, fodder, and profits of dairy farms.

• How is feeding related to the profitability of the dairy farm?
• Can faulty feeding lead to losses in the dairy farm?

—– Bodyweight of dairy animals and nutrient requirements.

• Why and how should you weigh the dairy animal?
• What nutrients do dairy animals require and how do they utilize them?
• Do nutrients affect the quality of milk produced?

—– Different kinds of feed and fodder.

Selecting Best animals for your dairy farm

—–What type of dairy animals should you buy for your farm?

• What are indigenous breeds and cross-bred cows? What is their milk yield and origin?
• What are the different types of buffalo breeds and what are their milk yield and origin?

—–Different criteria for selecting dairy animals.

• Selection based on life cycle, pregnancy or lactation stage, or management factors.

—–Understanding Body Condition Scores(BCS)

• How to access BCS-1/BCS-2/BCS-3?
• What should you check in a cow before buying?

—–Finding the age of a dairy animal by teeth.

—–Important dairy operations while buying animals.

• How to tag animals?
• How to maintain animal records?
• Which tests are to be conducted before buying animals?

—–Buying and transportation of animals.

• Where can you buy animals from?
• How to transport animals and necessary precautions to be taken?

Breeding and reproductive problems in dairy animals

—–Breeding Policy for dairy farm.

• What is the life cycle of dairy animals?
• Why should a dairy farmer have breeding goals and how to achieve them?
• What is in-breeding and how to avoid it?

—–Implementing the breeding policy in your farm.

• How to select quality semen for breeding?
• How to maintain records of semen used in artificial insemination?
• Meaning of terms given in sire directory.
• How to find information about the bull’s name on the semen straw?

—– How to get one calf a year?

• Understanding the reproductive cycle of a cow?
• What is artificial insemination (AI) and its benefit?
• What is heat and how to detect it?
• What is the correct time for artificial insemination?
• How to recognize pregnancy in dairy animals?

—–Pre-calving and Post-calving care.

• How to take care of dairy animals pre and post-calving?
• Care method for dairy animals during the transition period.
• How to prevent dry off or prevent dry cow mastitis in the dairy farm?
• Effects of good care in transition period over milk production.
• Precautions to be taken before feeding nutrients during the dry period.

—–Infertility, causes, and solution.

• What is repeat breeding and how to solve it?
• What is anestrus/silent heat and how to solve it?
• What is the retention of placenta (POS) and how to solve it?
• What is metritis and how to manage it?
• What is prolapse and what should be done?

—– Deworming of dairy animals.

• What is deworming and its benefits?
• What are the different types of worms found in dairy animals?
• How what and when of deworming.
• Dosage of deworming.
• Can you use the same deworming machine every time?
• Problems faced while deworming.

 

Dairy Farming Course Advanced techniques in  dairy nutrition

—– Creating a balanced ration for dairy animals

• What is rationing and does it have a connection with the life cycle of the animals?
• Parameters that play a role in selecting the ration.
• What are NDF and ADF in forage?
• What are the levels of crude protein, NDF, and ADF in different kinds of feed and fodder?
• What kind of feed and fodder increases milk productivity?

—– Formulation of diet for animals in different stages of life.

• What are the different stages of breeding?
• What to feed animals during stage1/stage 2/stage 3 of breeding?
• What to feed animals during the early/mid/late lactation stage?
• What should be fed to the animal during the dry stage?
• Important points to be borne in mind while creating a balanced ration?

—– Feeding the ration to the animals.

• How to feed total mixed ration (TMR) to the animal?
• What to do when NDF is high in the selected fodder?
• How to increase fat and SNF in milk through nutrition?

 

Calf and heifer management

—– Housing and care of calves after birth.

• What kind of housing should be provided to newborn calves?
• What care should be provided to the newborn calves?
• What is colostrum? How is it important for newborn calves?
• How to know if colostrum is of good quality or not?
• How much colostrum is required by the newborn calves?
• What are the signs of disease in newborn calves?

—– Increasing the growth of calves.

• How to find the right kind of feed for the heifer?
• What should be fed to the heifers with developed stomachs?

—– Scientific management practices for calves.

• How to tag the calf and create birth records?
• How to dehorn the calves?
• How to deworm the calves?
• Importance of removing extra teat of the calf.
• Vaccination schedule of the calf.

—– Disease a dairy farmer should look out in calves.

• What is calf diarrhea? What is its cause, prevention, and care?
• How to prevent infection in the naval cord?
• What causes calf pneumonia and how to prevent it?
• What is the life cycle of a tick and how does it affect the calf?
• How to control ticks on the farm?
• What is worm load in the calves and how to prevent it?
• What are the symptoms of mineral deficiency in calves?

—– Management of weight gain in heifer for high reproductive efficiency and milk production.

• Why are heifers the best investment? How does investment in heifers bring good returns?
• How to manage weight gain of calves and heifers?
• What should be the growth rate for calves of crossbred, desi, or buffaloes?
• When should artificial insemination (AI) be performed on heifers?
• How should you groom your heifers for good health?
• What should be done in the case of twin calves?
• How to get improved reproductive efficiency and milk production in 1^st lactation?

 

Disease Diagnosis and Laboratory Procedures for Dairy Farms

—- Laboratory Tests.

• Why should a dairy farmer learn about diagnostics and laboratory procedures?
• What is an antibiotic sensitivity test used for?
• What are the tests for brucellosis?
• What are the tests for sub-clinical and clinical theileriosis?
• What are the for dung to evaluate the presence of parasites?
• What should be the schedule for vaccination of dairy animals?
• What are the tests for soil?
• For which disease is complete blood count (CBC) recommended?
• How to get a post-mortem done for an insurance claim?
• What are the tests for feed and fodder?
• Reducing mastitis by understanding the somatic cell count test.
• What are the tests for residues of antibiotics, aflatoxins, pesticides, etc.?
• What is the test for milk adulterants?

Business Planning for Dairy Farms

—–Preparing Business Plans for Starting a New Dairy Farm or for an Existing Dairy Farm.

• How to prepare a business plan for starting a new dairy farm or expanding an existing one.

—–Managing the Operations of your Farm to Create Profits

• How to do a self-analysis of the farm by using “Farm Check”?
• How to use the free farm check tool of ‘Teplu’?
• A number of animals to start a dairy farm with.
• How many animals should be there on a dairy farm?
• How to manage the monthly income of the dairy farm? How to make dairy farming more profitable?
• What are the losses incurred due to poor estrus or non-detection of heat?
• What is the extent of losses due to health problems?

—– Financing your dairy farm business.

• How to finance a dairy farm business?
• What are the various government schemes for the development of dairy farms?

 

Dairy Farming Course Silage Making

For profitable dairy farming, you must know the art and science of silage making, i.e. storing the fodder for year round.

Silage making training includes

—– Basics of silage making.

• What are the problems in the dairy business?
• What is Silage?
• Who can use silage and why use silage?
• Why dairy farmers don’t use silage if it is so useful?

—– Practical way of making silage.

• Learn how to make silage using silage bags.
• Precautions to be taken while storing silage in bags.
• Precautions to be taken after opening the silage bags.
• What additives should be added while making silage bags?
• How to create the best quality silage in the pits of your dairy farm?
• How to create silage in bales?
• Making silage using small machines.
• How to prepare silage in bunkers?
• Prevent spoilage of silage in pit and bunkers.

These are the courses provided by ‘Teplu’ online. The dairy farmers can take advantage of the full course package deal or even choose the course they want to enroll for. Many of the courses available are even free of cost.

 

We can’t stress enough about the quality of content provided on this website.

The online lectures are given by world-renowned veterinary professionals.

The intricately designed course curriculum covers all the important aspects of dairy farming thoroughly.

These courses can be attended by anyone irrespective of their educational qualification or age.

These dairy farming course are available in English, Hindi, and Marathi.

The students can have a choice of language that is best suited to them.

In addition to this, ‘Teplu’ is offering 80% discount on the courses at present. This means you can avail the courses worth Rs. 15000/- for as low as Rs. 3000/- (after discount).

You can click on the link teplu.course to avail the offer. Further, you can also choose particular courses as per your requirement.

 

Here’s a testimonial from one of the course graduates taking online dairy farming course with Teplu.