Podcast focuses on hygiene scoring

A recent installment of the Purdue Dairy Digest podcast series takes a look at dairy cow hygiene scoring.

“Clean and dry is the mantra for dairy farm management,” says Mike Schutz, Purdue Extension dairy specialist. “Cow hygiene scores assess how clean or dirty a cow is on a scale of 1 to 4.”

Learn more by listening to episode #150 “Cow Hygiene Scoring” here.

Source: Purdue Dairy Digest

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