Kibbutz Dairy

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KIBBUTZ KETURA: THE DAIRY

Objectives: Students will learn the history of kibbutz life.Students will learn about Israeli agriculture.

Students will experience an agriculturally-based kibbutz.

Procedure: Upon arrival, each student receives a green star sticker onhis/her passport. Divide students into three (3) groups. Each group to last nomore than 5 minutes. Send each group to a station. Students switch as a group. Allstudents will eventually participate in all activities. At each station, students will participate in the planned activitywhile hearing about kibbutz life.

Set-up: # 1 – Dairy Station(4) cardboard cows with latex glove udders hanging from hooks(4) milking chairs and buckets(1) wading pool with extra udders

Volunteers: (3) Dairy dressed in shorts and T-shirts

Faculty: (2) dressed in shorts and T-shirts

Supplies: Latex gloves and hooksWhite tempura paint thinned with water (hose)Push pins4 Buckets4 Chairs from PreschoolEnlarged, laminated dairy photos

Activity:

1. Group 1A sits in a circle to listen to a presentation by the Dairy Manager,who offers information and answers questions while circulating pictures.2. Group 1B sits on “milking” chairs, each child with a bucket, in front of 1 of 4

freestanding plywood cows. Dairy volunteers demonstrate the milkingprocess. Each cow is equipped with a latex glove udder; when the fingersare squeezed, paint milk squirts into the milking pail – all over the milker and anyone else in the vicinity! Udders are replaced after each milking.

3. After everyone in Group 1B has milked a cow, the groups switch places.



GENERAL INFORMATION

The Kibbutz (Hebrew word for “communal settlement”) is a unique rural

community. The first kibbutzim (plural of “kibbutz”) were founded some 40 yearsbefore the establishment of the State of Israel (1948). Their founders were youngJewish pioneers, mainly from Eastern Europe, who came to create a new way of life. Overcoming many hardships, they succeeded in developing thrivingcommunities.

DAIRY

Israel’s dairy industry is the largest industry of its kind in the Middle East. Today, acountry that started out with barely a cow to its name, has the largest selection of dairy products (over 700 types of items) - enjoyed the world over. Israel’s successis remarkable considering the heat, humidity, limited land and water resources thathad to be overcome.

The Israeli dairy farmer incorporates all modern equipment, improving overallperformance. Israel isn’t bound by agricultural traditions, and Israeli farmersintegrate many new ideas into their farming systems. For many years muchattention has been given to minimize the “heat stress” on the dairy cow. Even in

Israel’s extreme climate, the Israeli Holstein Friesien Cows are among the world’sbest performing dairy cows.

Family University 2008– ds



Did you know…?

Israel produces approx 1,170,000

tons of cow's milk annually. Milkproducts make about 9% of the total

agricultural products market value.

The Israeli-Holstein breed has been

developed by the Israeli GeneticImprovement System. This cow is bestfit to the Israeli long and hot summers.

The Israeli cow has the highest

national milk yield(production/cow/year) in the world, in

milk volume and in milk solids. year.Special cooling systems help improvethe cows conditions and milk yield.

More than 2,500 families raise sheep

and goats: from traditional nomadicherds keepers to intensive zero-grazing dairy and meat farms.

Since Israeli cows yield less milk

during the hot summer, the extra milk

that is produced during the winter ismade into milk powder.

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