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Practices on Clean Production Preparation and source Hygiene Use a strip cup to check for mastitis Cut and groom hair around the udder Tie tails of animals when milking Sick animals should be milked last and their milk should not be mixed Hygiene of the milker The milker should be healthy,have short hair always,avoiding smokinh when milking The Milking Environment should be cleaned after every milking the animals should access the shade the shade should be permanent or movable Utensils Should be seamless as well as made of aluminium or stainless Animals that produce a lot of milk need a longer dry period, so that they can recover the nutrients they lost during the lactation period. During the dry period don’t give your animal grains, provide sufficient mineral leak as well as vitamins. The nanny should be given clean water adlib as water, takes a greater percentage in the milk. Priority 1 (top) |
Why is it a protected page?
I fail to understand why this article is protected? Is this a biography of a living person? --the Dude or "El Duderino", if you are not into all that brevity thing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.76.80.138 (talk) 06:49, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Terrible Drawing
One of the illustrations in this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nuvola_milk_carton.svg) is amateurish and doesn't contribute significantly to understanding the article. It's also misleading, as the image shows a half-gallon carton of milk while its caption states that such cartons are common in U.S. schools. I've never seen children knocking back half-gallons during lunchtime. - 67.202.81.221 (talk) 16:03, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
Done. I agree completely. The caption was incorrect and the drawing superfluous. I deleted the image, as it did not pertain to the section it appeared in and doesn't seem useful to add anything significant to any other area of the article either. duff 18:39, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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Could we remove the word 'adversely' from the last sentence in the Processing->Pasteurization section? The necessary information is conveyed without it, and it seems POV to me.
90.203.126.221 (talk) 09:24, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
- Done Deli nk (talk) 10:36, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
Changing UK patterns
This bit strikes me as odd:
The main reasons for the decline of UK home deliveries by milkmen are household refrigerators (which lessen the need for daily milk deliveries) and private car usage (which has increased supermarket shopping). In 1996, more than 2.5 billion liters of milk were still being delivered by milkmen, but by 2006 only 637 million liters (13% of milk consumed) was delivered by some 9,500 milkmen.
But both car and fridge ownership have been widespread for a darnsight more than the last 15 years. Are they really the reasons for milk rounds drying up?
I don't have refs to hand but surely increased aggressive selling practices by supermarkets have made the alternative more competitive? Add in more people living alone or everyone in a home working and the payment system became more awkward. I also recall a mess in the 1990s when some dairies switched their business practices to make milkmen franchisees on their individual rounds and thus unprofitable rounds were no longer subsidised and instead abandoned. This probably contributed to a cycle whereby people who didn't have the option of deliveries at their old address took the habit with them when moving and so further diminished the profitably of the round at their new address. Timrollpickering (talk) 11:25, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
East Meets West
"A glass of pasteurized cow milk, consumption of which is prevalent in Western countries"
May kindly be changed to:
"A glass of pasteurized cow milk"
I assure you that we in the eastern countries also do drink Pasteurized Cow Milk :-). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.92.13.202 (talk) 14:51, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
made the change Mirboj (talk) 03:08, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
UK milk deliveries
I agree with the contributor who pointed out that the decline of door delivery of milk in the UK has far more to do with supermarket pricing (and accusations of loss leading in this market) than with cars or fridges. Milk delivery isnt necesarily on a complete decline - see www.milkandmore.co.uk for example - I can now 'control' the delivery of milk to the doorstep via the internet and have a range of other perishable goods delivered. Balbip01 (talk) 09:40, 26 October 2011 (UTC)