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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1228020" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>One of my heifers last spring was a slow milker that had to have the cluster held up during milking, though her udder didn't seem too badly shaped.</p><p>I culled her something like a month after she calved, but it wasn't till the day we herd tested that I was standing holding her milking machine on and watching the milk dribbling in a stop/start pattern through the meter that I realised she wasn't a slow milker - she had a letdown problem and I might have fixed her with oxytocin if I'd realised. I just heard recently that several more of her sire's daughters also have let-down issues.</p><p>But I'd still cull her before injecting her with oxytocin every milking. IME the ones that need it aren't worth persevering with anyway, they'll dry themselves off with or without the injections.</p><p></p><p>Oxytocin used to contract the cow's uterus down after calving is a whole different thing, always gave it straight after pulling the calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1228020, member: 9267"] One of my heifers last spring was a slow milker that had to have the cluster held up during milking, though her udder didn't seem too badly shaped. I culled her something like a month after she calved, but it wasn't till the day we herd tested that I was standing holding her milking machine on and watching the milk dribbling in a stop/start pattern through the meter that I realised she wasn't a slow milker - she had a letdown problem and I might have fixed her with oxytocin if I'd realised. I just heard recently that several more of her sire's daughters also have let-down issues. But I'd still cull her before injecting her with oxytocin every milking. IME the ones that need it aren't worth persevering with anyway, they'll dry themselves off with or without the injections. Oxytocin used to contract the cow's uterus down after calving is a whole different thing, always gave it straight after pulling the calf. [/QUOTE]
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