History

  Dairy animals have been domesticated for thousands of years. At first they were the support of subsistence agriculture. In the nomadic agriculture of those days, farmers drove their cattle to their places of migration. Keeping and feeding animals formed the coexistence of nomadic herders. In the more recent past, agriculturists raised dairy animals for domestic dairy and for their village milk consumption. Then it became a cottage industry. These dairy animals were used not only for milk, but also for fodder when young and meat when old. However, because the number of animals was less, one out of ten cows were milked by hand within an hour. This meal was done by the milkman or balkari.