How to milk a cow

Wholesome Dairy Farms' technique for milking cows to provide the best udder health.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• dairy
• milk
• quality
• milking
• cows

[killyneary]

i wou;d love to see you milking a herd of 200 cows messing about like that. u dip strip and clean u dont play with the cow u dirty git!

[healthycows]

@killyneary I recommend these procedures for all herd sizes. A properly prepared cow will let down milk more readily and increase parlor throughput in the long run. I worked with these procedures as a veterinarian for herds much larger than 200 cows. This will help herds with 40 cows as much as herds with 4000 cows. This is not my opinion, but my experience.

[Joel19751]

I am a dairyman in Iowa with 40-50 cows. U did a good job demonstrating in the video. (I see u picked a gentle cow too, lol!) I sometimes get a little sloppy on my prepping on the cows after awhile so its a refresher to watch this video. I just wanted to note that we had alot of masitis trouble due to a worn out vacuum pump in 2004 and our cell count has been high ever since. So equipment is important. Also keeping consistent 12 hour intervals or 8 hour intervals between milkings helps alot

[healthycows]

Thanks for your input. I agree completely; the three "E" factors of milk quality are Environment, Equipment and Employees. I demonstrated the "employee" part only on this video. To be complete, the video would have to cover facilities management for environmental cleanliness, and equipment maintenance with an annual NMC evaluation.

As to your wise comment on consistency, I also agree. Consistency, even when the practices are less than optimal, beats periodic perfection every time.

Thanks.

[BlinkingLightsOfHeat]

It's wonderful to see how well you're carinf for the cows, it's very encouraging since I come from a farming family!

This video really showed me how much work it is, thank you greatly for this! I'm glad that people care

[healthycows]

Thank you!

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to murgatroid! You've milked this subject for all it's worth. This video is definitely "cream of the crop"! And I'm not just buttering you up! Hopefully your cows will never go dry...that would make them UDDER failures...or at least MILK DUDS!!!

[anafuller]

I wanted to show my 5 year old how we get milk from a cow. This is a great instructional video. It is very refreshing to see someone care so much for their job and the animals they work with. Thankyou for this and the work you do.

[Krokatopian]

LOPEZ??

[MrJopo357]

@killyneary Are you related to Mr Peterson?

[SeonahJo]

Wow!

I am a foreign graduate small animal vet, sitting CPE exam for licensing in the US. I found your video clip while I am studying. Thank you for this video and also perfect milk. ;) I'd love to visit your farm someday.

[gulis4u]

Normally, I'd been in the barn now. Washed udder, milked cows, controlled milk, prepaaring samples, and everything else that comes with it. Instead, I'm quite tipsy, and have fun watching others do the job!

[DeeDaRary]

I read about your store from an email from Woodsong Hollow. I never got to the farmers market when you were there, so I want to visit your store. I live in Harleysville.Do you think you will be at the Farmers Market after Feb. The email said no skippack market till after Feb. 2011. When will you have your cheeses?

[william462]

@JubalCalif don't milk it

[mikeyhomie3000]

nice job stimulating those teets! Keep up the good work!