Preliminary Observations Oh Milk Production Amohg The Fulanis Oil Th1 Accra Plains

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a a m a 1* Sanga cow with a chronic skin disease. The two off side quarters of her udder arc useless because of mastitis, but has not been culled from the herd because of her fertility, 2* Small boys herding calves. 5. Weaning - Oanga calf with toot dangling: in front of the muzzle. k» A Sanga heifer that is infested with ticks. 5. Sanga cows switching their tails to drive off flies. 6. Calf preliminarily suckling dam before she is hand-milked. The milJeer is seen in the background ®ith the calabash into which the cos is to be milked lying on the dung-strewn ground. 7» Bangs calf tethered to the near side foreleg of its dam. 8* Sanga cow with hind legs tethered to prevent her from kicking the milker. Calabash is held between the knees of the milker. 9* Milk being poured into open buckets behind the kraal fence. The milk is guarded by a younggirl in the Fnlani’s family* 10. Milk being poured into bottles. 11. Milk in kerosene tins ready to be sent to urban Fulani families. 12. Milk in kerosene tine being loaded into a truck..

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