Growing up on dairy farms, Amanda Klein and Lisa Buccieri discovered just how calming being around cows could be. So they began offering cuddling sessions with the animals to bring joy to others. Here ...

Farmers have been encouraged to provide matteresses for their cows to rest on. Livestock agronomists believe that animals that rest will give you more milk. Photo/Fiile Recently, we visited a dairy ...

Jennifer Van Os is a professor in the growing field of animal welfare science. It’s generally thought in the dairy industry that a happy cow is a productive cow. But how can you tell if a cow is happy ...

Lying time in dairy herds is a good indicator of cow comfort. Cows are strongly motivated to rest and under optimal conditions will choose to lie down for 12-14 hours a day. Several studies have shown ...

I recently came across a fascinating product aimed at dairy farmers. Check out the video below, which shows a cow enjoying the product, called the BlissBrush, which is designed to help dairy cows ...

There has been much written recently – and rightly so – about the importance of cow comfort. Winter is on the whole a period of total confinement for the herd, restricting some of the freedoms cows ...

Lying time in dairy herds is a good indicator of cow comfort. Cows are strongly motivated to rest and under optimal conditions will choose to lie down for 12-14 hours a day. Several studies have shown ...