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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1677510" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>[USER=3953]@Buck[/USER], I agree to disagree. Once a day milking has saved several cows over the years that the farmers tried to go cold turkey dry up and they got mastitis.... the once a day milking kept them from losing quarters, and by demanding less of the udder, the hormones slowed down the production. For most cows that have been long into lactation, cold turkey quitting milking works... But for others it doesn't. Just like the newer recommendations are to milk fresh cows 4x which will cause their systems to produce more, and this increase will continue on into the lactation even when the cows go back to 3x or 2x milking. So by going down to 1x the cows' system slows down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1677510, member: 25884"] [USER=3953]@Buck[/USER], I agree to disagree. Once a day milking has saved several cows over the years that the farmers tried to go cold turkey dry up and they got mastitis.... the once a day milking kept them from losing quarters, and by demanding less of the udder, the hormones slowed down the production. For most cows that have been long into lactation, cold turkey quitting milking works... But for others it doesn't. Just like the newer recommendations are to milk fresh cows 4x which will cause their systems to produce more, and this increase will continue on into the lactation even when the cows go back to 3x or 2x milking. So by going down to 1x the cows' system slows down. [/QUOTE]
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