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1- Introduction

2- Aim and benefits

3- Good milking procedure

4- Key points to remember

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INTRODUCTION1Milking is a key activity on dairy farming. It’s a critical operation because of its direct impact on the quality and quantity of milk produced. Your income depends on how you perform milking.

Wrong milking practices and poor hygiene ruin all the good efforts made on rearing, feeding and taking care of your animals.

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2 AIM AND BENEFITS OF GOOD PRACTICES

RESPECTING GOOD MILKING PRACTICES WILL DELIVER

Better hygiene Improved farmers livelihoods

• Safer milk for consumption. • Increased milk production and quality.

• Prevent mastitis especially for high productive cows.

• Good taste and longer conservation of milk.

• Higher income from milk.

• Animals less prone to disease.!

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3 GOOD MILKING PRACTICES

3.1 - Rules and recommendations

3.2 - Preparation

3.3 - Milking with hands

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Handing of milk

Cleaning of equipment (hands)

Cleaning of equipment (machines)

3.4 - Milking with machines

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3.1 RULES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

GENERAL RULES

• Milk 2 times per day at regular times each day with an interval of around 12h, at suitable time for collection.

• Milk quickly and do not interrupt until the udder is empty.

• Milk completely and do not let calves suckle to finish the milking.

• Always milk diseased or under treatments cows at the end and discard their milk.

• Never add anything into the milk (water, preservatives…).

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3.1 RULES AND RECOMMENDATIONS

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Avoid any noise or disturbance near the milking area.

• Avoid talking, coughing, sneezing, spitting and smoking while milking.

• Do not scare your cows or distress them by shouting, beating or kicking. Scared or hurt cows will let down less milk.

• Do not shower your cow prior milking because contaminated water may run from the cow’s body into the bucket, and then spoil the milk.

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3.2 PREPARING FOR MILKING

CLEANING THE MILKING PLACE

• Sweep and wash the floor.

• The milking place must be free from dust, well aerated and with adequate lightning.

• Don’t give silage or fodder with aroma to cows just prior to milking. It can flavor your milk.

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YOUR EQUIPMENT

Iron or plastic buckets and cans are prohibited.

Use clean stainless steel or aluminum cans.

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YOUR EQUIPMENT

Use the milking bucket only for milk.

If used for other purposes, it may contaminate the milk during the next milking, with particles left in the bucket.

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YOUR EQUIPMENT

• Make sure your equipment is clean. Bacteria multiply quickly in dirty equipment.

• Rinse the milking utensils in clean water just before milking.

• Check regularly that your milking machines are in a good state (liner, claw & tubes) and your vacuum machine is working properly (oil, drive belt, vacuum level, pulsation rate).

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YOURSELF

• Make sure you and your clothes are clean and your nails are trimmed.

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YOURSELF

• Wash your hands with soap before milking and then wipe with a clean towel.

• Do not milk yourself if you are sick.

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STRIP CUP

• Remove the first squirts because it’s charged of bacteria and could contaminate the entire milking.

• Never let down the first squirts on ground. This may spread infection from a diseased cow to another. Get it in a separate vessel and discard it.

• Occasionally, get the first 2-3 squirts of each teat, one by one, in the strip cup to detect lumps or odd color.

• Abnormal milk indicate that cow may suffer from mastitis.

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YOUR COWS

• After cleaning, wipe with a clean cloth/towel or disposable paper tissue. Use only one cloth or one paper towel per cow!

• Clean the teats and udder thoroughly just prior to milking. Clean and then milk cows one by one. Do not clean the udders of all the cows at the same time.

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3.3 MILKING

MILKING WITH HANDS

• Always use full hand milking method. Milking by pulling the teats or with knuckling method can cause injury to the teats and cause mastitis.

• Your hands must be clean & free from any type of lesions or ulcers.

• Wet milking (moistening hand in milk or water or oil) is prohibited.

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3.3 MILKING

TEAT DIP

• Use teat dip after milking. This protects the teat end for a period after milking and kills pathogens that may be on the teat skin and can cause mastitis.

• Never pour back the used teat dip solution back into the bottle.

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3.3 HANDING OF MILK

• Keep the churns in a well-ventilated place out of the direct sun.

• Advantage of producing clean milk is lost if post milking handing is not done carefully.

• Do not leave milk in an open churn exposed to dirt, dust and flies. Keep the lid on the churn as often as possible.

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3.3 HANDING OF MILK

• After milking, bring milk to the collection center ASAP.

• If you keep milk at farm level, make sure to chill it below 5°C 2 hours maximum after milking.

• At the collection center, pour the milk through a strainer/filter. Remove the deposit in the strainer (hair, insect, straw…) before pouring a new pail/can of milk.

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3.3 CLEANING OF EQUIPMENT

• Most of the bacteria in milk come from milking utensils which are not cleaned properly.

• Rinse all milking equipment in water soon after every milking.

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• Wash the equipment in hot water with a non toxic detergent.

• Use scrub or a hand brush for cleaning.

• Use the scrub/brush only to clean milk equipment.

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• Rinse with plenty of clean water again.

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• Leave milking equipment to dry upside down in a clean and well ventilated area that contains no chemicals like pesticides.

• Just before the next milking, rinse equipment in clean water.

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• Adjust the cluster so that it hangs straight down from the cow.

• Teat cups should be applied within one minute of the initial wiping of the teats.

• The teat cups that ride up excessively high on a teat can potentially cause irritation to the teat lining. Readjust if necessary.

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• At the end of milking, turn off the vacuum ant then only detach the cluster. Pulling the teat cups while the vacuum is still on may cause trauma to the teat ends.

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• A dirty machine can be source of contamination of the milk and the teat.

• Residues of fresh milk in the machine after cleaning is a sign of deficiency in cleaning

• Always check presence of residues in :

Teat cup

Claw

Pipes

Tank and lead


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• Clean the milking machine with hot water (> 63°C) and detergent approved for contact with food (alternate between acid and alkaline solution).

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• Clean the 4 teat cups using a dedicated and adapted brush.

• Create a CMP to clean the milking machine inside.

• Always rinse with clean and drinkable water.


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• Check the teat cups and other rubber pieces regularly and replace them in case of default.

• All rubber pieces must be replaced at least once a year.

• Too much chloride can accelerate damage of rubber pieces.

• The life time of teat cups correspond from 1200 to 1500 milking :

To calculate (example with 20 cows): one unit of milking for 10 cows x 2 milking/day = each unit does 40 milking/day.

1200 milking/40milking a day = replace the teats every 30 days.


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4 KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER

Wash your hands with soap before milking.

1 Discard first squirts of milk.2 Clean and dry

the udder.3 Always use full hand milking method.

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Teat dip after milking.5 Bring milk as soon as

possible to the collection center and pour through a strainer/filter.

6 Clean utensils with detergent and let them dry upside-down.7

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