The study was conducted to determine structural features and hygiene practices of the dairy cattle farms in Samsun Tekkeköy Province. The results indicated that the averages of; enterprise holder’s age, experience periods, household size and member of any agricultural organization were found 53.1±10.74 year, 36.2±14.66 year, 5.2±1.91 head and 62.5%, respectively. The average number of animals and the number of cows per farm was determined as 24.4±21.1 head and 7.5±5.15 head. Based on survey results, 69% of farm use milking machine and 100 % of which apply teat cleansing during the milking processes, 37.5% of them used cleaning materials in washing the milking equipment. In addition, it was determined that 37.5% of farmers uses gloves during milking, 87.5% of them use a separate glove. Although the farmers received no training on hygiene, it was determined that 65% of milk was filtered, and 2.5% of which was regularly checked for mastitis.