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Animals

Animals are natural creatures. They live in many places around the world.
Goats came from mountains and cold places, there are many breeds in Mexico,
the most famous is saanen, it is a dairy breed, it can produce 6 liters of milk a day
and it come from Swiss. Their fur is white, and mammal glands have a good
implanted. Saanen can eat forage like other ruminants and they are docile and
peaceful. Nubian is a goat that looks like a dog, because their ears are so large
and pendulous. The fur of Nubian goats is brown whit black, and their nose is like a
parakeet, and it can live in arid places. Nubian goat can produce 600-700 liters of
milk by lactation, but saanen goat can produce 600-1000 liters by lactation, Goats
milk is not common in Mexico, people prefer cows milk, may be because there are
many blurb. There are many brands that sell milk like Lala, Alpura, Leche
Quertaro, San Marcos, Santa Clara, Araceli, Gota Blanca, etc. Sheeps produce
milk too, but sheeps have special breeds that produce this product, like East
Friesian, it can produce more than 3 liters a day. Mexico has East Friesian, above
Quertaro, Guanajuato, Jalisco e Hidalgo. These are 70 kg 120 kg weight
(females and males respectively). Sheeps produce meat too, but there are special
breeds like Hampshire, Dorper, Dorset and Charollais. Some breeds produce wool,
but other dont because have hair. Bovines are a family of big animals. These can
produce milk or meat, it depends if it is a bos Taurus or a bos indicus. Bos Taurus
is an Europe animal, and bos indicus is an Indian animal. Bos Taurus supports cold
climates, and bos indicus support tropical and arid climates. There are many
breeds of meat like Angus, beefmaster, limousine, Simmental, Hereford, Gyr and
Bradford. Bos indicus has ears and neck largest in all bovines. My favorite animal
is dairy cow. This animal is a bovine and is a ruminant too. Breeds came from
Europe, thats the reason why animals dont like hot climates, because it causes
stress and produce less milk. Holstein is the most famous breed in cows, it has
black and white colors in the fur, although it can be brown and white (red factor), is
less common. Holstein cows are 550-600 kg weight, there are two varieties:
Canadian and American. Canadian cows are larger and weightier than American
cows. The behavior is the same in both varieties, but is more expensive to feed a
Canadian cow than an American cow. Jersey is another cows breed, it is smaller
than Holstein cow, and it produces less milk than Holstein cow because Jersey
cow eats less. Jersey cows have bigger eyes than Holstein, and the color of their
fur is brown. Milk is food that has many nutrients like proteins, carbohydrates,
minerals and fat. From milk can be made many kinds of cheese (fresh cheese,
spreadable cheese, and mature cheeses), yogurts, milk drinks (milkshakes,
liquefied), creams, cakes, butter and probiotics. A ruminant is an animal that can
ruminate, and ruminate is the action of chew, because they have a rumen. Rumen
is a digestive organ. People say that cows have fourth stomachs, but it is false

completely. Rumiants have only one stomach called abomasum, this is the real
stomach because it produces hydrochloric acid. Ruminants have fourth
compartments (divisions or sections in the digestive system): reticulum, rumen,
omasum and abomasums, but people think that these are one. Reticulum looks
like honeycomb or a net, rumen looks like a carpet, omasum looks like a book and
abomasum look like a bottle. Lactation is a period when an animal can produce
and secrete milk by the mammary glands, and it can be as long as you want. In
Dairy cows it can be about 305 days and 60 days are for rest. Dairy cows can give
birth a calf by year, because the gestation lasts nine months like a woman. People
believe that cows are whit their baby, but it is false. In some places of Mexico this
system is using, especially in Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco and Oaxaca, because
they have bos indicus, and this animal cant produce milk if it doesnt have their
baby beside. Calves can drink eight liters of milk each day. They need colostrums
because this ingredient is a food complement, it increments resistance to diseases
like diarrhea and pneumonia mainly. However colostrums support inmunitary
system against of diseases. During two first weeks of calves lives, colostrum is
essential because it has mother antibodies that helps at survival calves. Calves
drink milk during two months or more, it depends of the farm. There are many
qualities of colostrums, and these can be measured with a densitometer. If the
colostrums are high quality, densitometer is green, if the quality of colostrums is
medium, densitometers color is yellow, but if the quality is low, densitometers
color is red. In a dairy farm is necessary a big population of females, thats why a
calf needs has a great feeding. When a calf is 13 years old is called heifer. Heifers
achieve sexual mature when they are 11 years old. Bulls are not necessary in a
dairy farm because artificial insemination is a new technology. This technique uses
a selection of spermatozoids of bulls content inside of pipettes. These bulls have a
pedigree with specific hereditable characteristics. For example, we can select
sperm of bull that give us more yield milk daughters. More over the sperm could be
select by XX or XY if you want only females and none males.

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