Posted by Bobl1958 on December 30, 2015 at 11:59:30 from (68.98.205.31):
I am just wondering how it is that you handle your milking? Do you bring the cows in and milk them and then let them go back outside, or do they spend the day in the barn? Just curious how you folks in the real cold country handle things?
My Grandad and Uncle milked just under 100 Holsteins when I was young here in KS. They had a milking barn that every morning and every evening they would gather the cows in a pen and would milk 6 at a time in a kind of a single pen that had a gate on the front and also the back. They milked 3 on a side and they would be in the middle in a sunken pit, of sorts. They had a feed system set up similar to yours and would feed grain while they were milking. When they had the cow dry, the would unhook the milker and open the front gate and the cow would head out. Shut that gate and open the back gate, then open the door to the barn and another would walk in and take that one's place until all were milked. I know the cows were trained on the procedure after so many times doing the same thing.
Once they were done milking, all the cows were back in the bigger lot/pasture until the next one. Is that similar to your procedure? Thanks - Bob
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