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The amount of water a cow should drink each day depends on it’s age, milk production, consumption of dry matter and weather conditions.
| Calves |
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5 – 15 litres / day |
| Heifers |
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15 – 35 litres / day |
Cows :
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| * dry |
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30 – 60 litres / day |
| * 10kg milk/day yield |
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50 – 80 litres / day |
| * 20kg milk/day yield |
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70 -100 litres / day |
| * 30kg milk/day yield |
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90 -150 litres / day |
In agroecological livestock farming, producing more or less milk depends on maintaining the nutritive and hygienic qualities of milk as well as fulfilling all the other objectives of this farming model (section 3). The aim is not to just achieve high milk yields per cow and, thus, water consumption should be between 50 and 100 litres per day per lactating cow:
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Feeding cows 
