Sorry this is really late, I just got back in my dorm.
Well, another day has gone by here at EARTH U and a lot of stuff is happening that I'm super excited about!
I got to sleep in again since I'm not working on the farm until wednesday. After breakfast, eggs and gallo pinto, I went to Profe Moro's office to discuss what my goals are for this internship and what I want to accomplish.
I mentioned 4 projects before on this blog, the cattle welfare, the composting, the selective breeding/genetics, and the grazing system. Profe and I narrowed it down to the cattle welfare, selective breeding, and grazing system because they all involve bettering the lives of the dairy herd and increasing production. Now that I've narrowed which projects I'll be working on down I can go and research and work on details that are vital to the success of these projects.
I'm going to be:
Learning protocols for milking (this week starting wednesday)
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Milking the cows (this week starting wednesday)
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Sampling
milk and analysis of milk composition in the lab (this week starting wednesday)
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Taming
water buffaloes & calves (Another week)
- Planting crops for
livestock in one of the grazing system plots (Another week)
- Learning the protocols
of thawing frozen semen & Artificial insemination (Another week)
SIn addition to all of this I'm going to be working with a few things on paper. Profe Moro and I were talking about creating genetic profiles for some cows so we could figure out which traits are good from that specific cow and which traits need to be fixed. From this information we could easily assess which mate would work for which cow. I've already working on the profile.
I'm going to spend most of tomorrow and the afternoons I have during the week to work on this profile, looking at certain sires, watching videos on artificial insemination, and print out pictures of the desired traits that we want to see in our herd. It's going to be great!
The rest of the day wasn't that entertaining because I just spent most of the afternoon looking at some of the resources Profe Moro and I found. I ate dinner with Marianna, Lina, Paula, and a few other friends. After dinner we went to the rec center to play some pool.
It is way past my bedtime, it's almost 11! I'm sorry today's post was a little dry and boring, I'll try to make tomorrow's better. Good night!
-Allie
SIn addition to all of this I'm going to be working with a few things on paper. Profe Moro and I were talking about creating genetic profiles for some cows so we could figure out which traits are good from that specific cow and which traits need to be fixed. From this information we could easily assess which mate would work for which cow. I've already working on the profile.
I'm going to spend most of tomorrow and the afternoons I have during the week to work on this profile, looking at certain sires, watching videos on artificial insemination, and print out pictures of the desired traits that we want to see in our herd. It's going to be great!
The rest of the day wasn't that entertaining because I just spent most of the afternoon looking at some of the resources Profe Moro and I found. I ate dinner with Marianna, Lina, Paula, and a few other friends. After dinner we went to the rec center to play some pool.
It is way past my bedtime, it's almost 11! I'm sorry today's post was a little dry and boring, I'll try to make tomorrow's better. Good night!
-Allie
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