The survey has been carried out to determine structural features of the 373 dairy cattle farms in Giresun City and in its 8 sub-provinces. 59.8%, 17.7% and 22.5% of dairy enterprises were classified as small, medium and large size farms respectively. The average cattle number per farm is 7.98. The distribution of cattle consists of as following cow (40.5%), heifer (15.1%), calf (6-12 months of age), young cattle (22.3%), calf (6.8%), bull (15.3%). The breed distribution of cattle as fallows: 23.6% native, 71.1% crossbred 5.3% exotic breeds. It was determined that 54% of the farms owners graduated from were primary school, and 19.3% of them did not go to school. Heifers in these farms are inseminated when they are 12 months old (42.8%), 15 months old (13.3%) or 18 months old (21.5%). Heat status of cows is detected assigned from mucus discharge (53.9%) from vulva. 38.9% of the farms used artificial insemination their herds while in the 58.2% of the farm, cows were bred naturally. In 82.3% of farms cows are milked until two months before parturition. 49.3% of farms produced less than 4.5 kg milk from per animal while 50.7% of farms had more than 5 kg from milk per animal. The health problems experienced were dystocia (22.5%), foot and nails problems (12.9%), mastitis (23.6%), abortion (8.3%) While 99.2% of the farms utilized preventive vaccination, 90.9% of these enterprises did not receive regular veterinary service. 96% of the farmers indicated that they are happy with dairy cattle farming because it is a resource to provide household needs (14%), makes contribution to family budget (9.8%) and only income source (73.7%). 24 % of the farmers are dealing with other jobs in addition to livestock farming. The problems of the farms are market, credit, high feed prices and low milk price, and expectations from authorities are credit, veterinary service, breeding stock animal, technical support and help in market.