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December 23, 2005	Good article nominee	Listed
May 10, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
April 2, 2008	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Practices on Clean Production[edit]

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)

Additions to table[edit]

Suggest adding the following to the table (all from the same existing source at dairyinfo.gc.ca):

Russia, 36.5, 5.8, 2.4 Egypt, 24.3, -, 0.8 Turkey, 16.2, 6.8, 0.6

This would at least cover all the continents (ie Africa and Middle East are currently missing, and Russia is a major world culture).

Agree, it's quite incomplete

Resource and reference list from Kurzgesagt[edit]

The video Milk (youtube), by Kurzgesagt, comes with a comprehensive list of references for each of the details mentioned: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesmilk/ -- I'm adding it here in case useful. Quiddity (talk)

Protected?[edit]

Does this page really need to be protected? I wouldn't see many people trying to vandalize an article about animal lactate.

  Yes. It's a frequently vandalised and manipulated page.  Halogenated (talk) 16:46, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

edit protected page, Criticism section[edit]

I'm petitioning to remove this line from the Criticism section: "Milk production is also resource intensive. On a global weighted average, for the production of a given volume of milk, a thousand times as much water has to be used.[164]" It comes after the Environmental Impacts section without adding additional information, makes a statement, and doesn't explain what is produced with a thousand times less water in the comparison. Additionally, the section already mentions "environmental concerns" in the opening sentence.

Largely, the Criticism section is redundant after introducing vegans except that: "It is often argued that it is unnatural for humans to drink milk from cows (or other animals) because mammals normally do not drink milk beyond the weaning period, nor do they drink milk from another species.[163]"

DHHornfeldt (talk) 22:09, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Based on the cited source, it's 1,000 litres of water used per litre of milk produced. I've clarified this. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 00:40, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

The 'Notes' tab should be removed[edit]

In my opinion, the 'Notes' tab should be removed if no notes can be added to it as in my opinion it is pointless having an empty tab within the article. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 19:19, 24 January 2021 (UTC)