Farmer Using Reggae Music to Motivate Cows and Increase Milk Production
The farmers have put into action scientific research that shows music has the same effects on animals as it does in human beings. They play reggae music to the cows to help them relax hence increase their milk production.
Zimtrending learnt from an online publication that besides the good music farmers also ensure the cows have good sleeping conditions.
On the molecular level, research shows that listening to music improves our mental well-being and physical health by buoying our mood and fend off depression.
Music also improves blood flow in ways similar to statins, lower levels of stress-related hormones like cortisol and ease pain. According to the Meru Highlands Dairy CEO Justus Nguu, the farmers use reggae music to get the cows to relax and yield more milk.
Listening to music before an operation can even improve post-surgery outcomes and research has shown all these apply to animals too. Days after President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the construction of a KSh 250 million milk cooling plant in Meru County, dairy farmers are now playing music to cows to increase milk production.
“A cow must be comfortable and must be relaxed. When it is relaxed and that music playing in the background that is when you get maximum out of it,” he said. Besides the good music, Nguu said a god sleeping condition of the cows also contributes to the high production of milk.
This has forced the farmers to learn, through the Meru Dairy, how put up modern cow sheds with automated milking facilities.The construction of the New KCC facility with a holding capacity of 100,000 litres in Nyambene will be completed in October 2020.
