Dale L
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How long after birth is too long for oxytocin to be effective for milk let down? Have heard it needs to be within 24 hrs. Is this true?
Lucky_P":31qtn4hs said:Oxytocin is always involved in 'milk let-down', throughout a cow's lactation. That's one of the reasons for udder-prep activities on dairy cattle - and why that calf butts the dam's udder.
It will not, as some seem to think, 'bring a cow into her milk'. If she's not got any, oxytocin's not gonna magically create it.
dun":2gbcxkap said:I had wondered why some dairys gave it at every milking to the slow let down cows.