Guest guest Posted November 21, 2001 Report Share Posted November 21, 2001 Dandavad. Prabhupada kijaya! I have been trying to figure out what size of herd you would need to maintain if you wanted to keep the herd size stable and have 50 cows milking at any one time (the current number of milkers in Mayapur). The difficulty is that these cows have a short lactation of less than a year. I figure that if each cow is allowed only two calves (theoretically giving 0 population growth) and if the average life of a cow is 18 years you would get just one out of 9 cows and bulls milking at any one time to keep equilibrium. I based this on simply dividing 18 by two years of lactation. BUt this is just a guess. I can't seem to get my head around the math. Does anyone have a better understanding of this? Your servant, Pancaratna das Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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