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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 149715" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>Yep I know where that is. However, I still wouldn't do it or recommend it. There's two cases I can think of off the top of my head that make me extremely wary of anything that involves more than 12 hours between milkings.</p><p></p><p>The first was one of the top cows at my boss's dairy that missed being milked one morning. The circumstances are irrelevant; only that it was 24 hours before she was milked, and she came down with a severe case of mastitis almost immediately. Turned into a chronic case that nearly took the quarter out of production completely.</p><p></p><p>Second case was on one of my nurse cows. I do things different than most folks, and leave the cow and calves together 24/7. This particular cow I wanted to take to a show, pulled the calves at 9PM, cow didn't return home until 1PM the next afternoon after the show. 16 hours, I believe. She came down with an extremely severe case of mastitis that I battled for a solid week before conquering.</p><p></p><p>Those two alone make me wary of letting a cow go more than 12 hours - <em>especially </em>one who is used to being milked every few hours by a calf - and I can come up with more stories along these same lines.</p><p></p><p>Like I mentioned in my first post, I think I understand the reasoning behind pulling the calves, and I think I understand why it would work, but when I sit down and think about it all, it just isn't worth it in my book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 149715, member: 852"] Yep I know where that is. However, I still wouldn't do it or recommend it. There's two cases I can think of off the top of my head that make me extremely wary of anything that involves more than 12 hours between milkings. The first was one of the top cows at my boss's dairy that missed being milked one morning. The circumstances are irrelevant; only that it was 24 hours before she was milked, and she came down with a severe case of mastitis almost immediately. Turned into a chronic case that nearly took the quarter out of production completely. Second case was on one of my nurse cows. I do things different than most folks, and leave the cow and calves together 24/7. This particular cow I wanted to take to a show, pulled the calves at 9PM, cow didn't return home until 1PM the next afternoon after the show. 16 hours, I believe. She came down with an extremely severe case of mastitis that I battled for a solid week before conquering. Those two alone make me wary of letting a cow go more than 12 hours - [i]especially [/i]one who is used to being milked every few hours by a calf - and I can come up with more stories along these same lines. Like I mentioned in my first post, I think I understand the reasoning behind pulling the calves, and I think I understand why it would work, but when I sit down and think about it all, it just isn't worth it in my book. [/QUOTE]
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