What happens on a dairy milking cows

Nathan Ashby visits his cousin Brendan`s dairy farm to see how a rotary dairy operates

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[2fast65]

What was the purpose of the hanging bucket to let the cows know it is time to exit the parlor.

[CheshireCowgirl]

How is it every farming video i have ever been on can't just be watched but there has to be a moral argument ensue from passing hippies?

[pelicanus11]

milk is one single cause of calcium deficiency for people

THIEVES should pay back

stealing from cow

pay back by disease

imprisoning cows

pay back by disease

cancer

and death

[fakir0005]

@leaton1127 You are a calf advocate are not you. Only your advocacy does not help the calves. People want the milk so they take the calves and kids away. Where did you get the 48 hours figures. Some farmers may not separate the calves from the cows ever. Others may separate them minutes later. You have no knowledge at all.

[fakir0005]

@arnoldnavarro21 Where did you get the idea of unwanted calves. The Calves are not human babies. Human babies are unwanted. The mothers give the babies for adoption. No calves are unwanted. The farmer will sell the calves he does not want to keep. If he kills it is because he wants its meat, not because it is unwanted. People kill cows because they want its meat. They kill chicken cause they want meat. That is how it goes. People want milk. They buy cows or buy the milk from people who have cows

[fakir0005]

@cabletie007 Milking cows is a lot of fun. I milked lots of cows in my life. I'm sorry I gave up milking the cows. I milked the cows straight in my mouth. It was so addicting. My arteries got clogged with cholesteral because of the milk I drank. I gave up milking cows. I wish I had just given up milking cows in my mouth. It was fun to have the milk strike the inside of my mouth. I've to take Lipitor daily now. I'd to have my arteries cleaned n have a stent placed. U can't drink fat.

[fakir0005]

@jonopat @jonopat The important thing is not how many cows you can milk at a time but how much milk the farmers leave in the udders. The farmers do not know why the milk starts flowing out of the teats. It is because of a hormone the cow produces when its udders are squeezed. This hormone causes the spongy udder tissue to contract and expand causing the tissue to release the milk. But there is only so much of the hormone. After the hormone is finished the milk will stop coming out. Contd

[fakir0005]

To restart the hormone you have to come back after about 30 minutes and start squeezing her udders. A fresh supply of hormone will be produced and the milk will start producing again. When I was the herd manager I did this with my cows. The cows got milked four times but not every eight hours. The cows were producing four times the milk they were producing before I took over. And here you are boasting about how many cows you milk at a time. How much milk You leave in the udder.

[fakir0005]

@brujanegra U can make a good living milking cows for farmers. Herd managers of herds of 500 cows make $50,000 per year. Buy your own cow don't break take calf away from cow. be happy calf of your cow is with its mother. You'll never be able to stop calves being taken away from cows. I've been a manager of a herd of 1000 cows in Wisconsin. I'd a couple of cows suckle the calves of all the cows 4 @ a time. Rest were milked. Heavy milkers were milked 4x.

[fakir0005]

@jonopat there r huge rotaries. The cows keep coming the man keeps applying machines. The machines come off by themselves. But the people are filthy. They do not make sure that the milk is flowing freely through the teats before applying the cups because the rotary is moving too fast. They need to slow it down. But you have a nice parlor if you are milking 10 cows at a time. But I believe you mean only 5 cows on side are being milked 5 r waiting on the other side 2 be milked.