Posted by bison on March 10, 2013 at 22:42:09 from (69.168.144.136):
In Reply to: OT - Milking by Hand posted by Hal/ Eastern WA on March 10, 2013 at 15:06:25:
Quoting Removed, click Modern View to seeThat ain't milk no more, You may as wel drink water
I grew up in Europe,We milked 24 cows .My dad used to buy fresh milkcows with an issue on the stockyards just because they were cheap and milk and fatten them up at the same time,by the time they went down in milk production they were fat and sold to a butcher.
More often than not these cows he brought home were 3 teaters and or a teat that was stepped on ,or cows and heifers with very large or really small teats and lots of edema in the udder(one could only milk the latter between thumb and first finger) Some of them could kick like a mule,some kicked so high they knocked a hole in the barn ceiling.
It took at times 3 of us to milk one of these rascals,but with hobbles on, a bullring with a rope in the nose stretched across the feed isle and a pitchfork against the side to prevent the critter from dropping itself on the milker we usually could get them more or less to coperate till they after a few sessions admitted defeat and behave.It sure made wildcow milking on a rodeo here a rather tame affair.
I don't think after all the experience i gathered over the years there isn't a cow born i can't milk.
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