Posted by Texasmark1 on March 10, 2013 at 06:49:50 from (162.72.56.48):
In Reply to: OT - Milking by Hand posted by Brian G. NY on March 09, 2013 at 20:01:44:
City boy to the country with wife and 4 siblings.
Neighbor is an old time "insider".
I'm his recreation.
Has a young freshened Holstein/whiteface cow he doesn't want.
Told me to take it home and bring it back when I didn't want it any more.
Within the week I asked what he wanted for it.....$850 wow and I'll tell you why in a minute if you don't already know. $850-900 is what the pure bred freshened holsteins brought. He said you can pay it out $100 a month.
After a week her name was buttercup. Milk had 50% butterfat and some times I just sturred it up and drank it that way yummmmmmmmmmmmy. Now the good part.
The teats were 2" long, too short for the hand and the automated milker.
I milked her twice daily for a couple of years with the thumb, index finger and middle finger. That's all that would fit. You wouldn't believe the muscle I developed between the thumb and index and is still there today some 30 years later.
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