A study on Milking Management Applied in Cattle Enterprises in Narman County of Erzurum Province

The study was undertaken to obtain information about milking methods of 208 enterprises in Narman County of Erzurum Province via face to face interview. It was determined that concentrate feed was offered during milking in 75.5% of the enterprises, and Percentage of the enterprises which don't make udder cleaning prior to milking is 54.4%, and hand milking is used in 78.8% of the enterprises. While 68.6 % of the cattle farmers stores milk in the aluminum milk storage container in the out of barn, 30.9% of them keeps milk storage containers in the barn and 0.5% of them stores the milk in the milk cooling tank. 52.2% of the enterprises indicated that the highest milk yield per animal is obtained in summer season. It was found out that 78.4% of the enterprises do not utilize from milk support given by the government, percentage of enterprices which keeps milk production records is 68.6%, and 24.5% of them milks their cows for 10 months.