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<blockquote data-quote="Nite Hawk" data-source="post: 1003667" data-attributes="member: 18682"><p>On alot of dairy farms, if a very young heifer has an auxillary teat, especially if they are placed in the wrong spot, they usually just clip them off way before they freshened. Often they get in the way of the milking machine, produce very little, and are a reservoir for mastitis, as they are not usually milked out.</p><p>But it sounds like Mega has 6 <em>quarters,</em> which is unusual. often the auxillary teat comes off of an existing quarter.</p><p>Sounds like Mega is pretty mild tempered, which is nice. Maybe the reason she laid down on you, was maybe her natural oxyitocin /let down reflex- relaxed her so much she decided to "plop' down on you, not out of orneryness.</p><p>Had a couple of milk cows that when you milked them would get <strong>very </strong>relaxed, in fact dozy. They often would prop their noses on the edge of the water trough and almost fall asleep. It was hilarious, as it wasn't uncommon for them to start dozing while being milked and their propped nose would on occasion slide off the edge of the trough, and land with a large splat into the water, which of course woke them up in a hurry! :lol:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nite Hawk, post: 1003667, member: 18682"] On alot of dairy farms, if a very young heifer has an auxillary teat, especially if they are placed in the wrong spot, they usually just clip them off way before they freshened. Often they get in the way of the milking machine, produce very little, and are a reservoir for mastitis, as they are not usually milked out. But it sounds like Mega has 6 [i]quarters,[/i] which is unusual. often the auxillary teat comes off of an existing quarter. Sounds like Mega is pretty mild tempered, which is nice. Maybe the reason she laid down on you, was maybe her natural oxyitocin /let down reflex- relaxed her so much she decided to "plop' down on you, not out of orneryness. Had a couple of milk cows that when you milked them would get [b]very [/b]relaxed, in fact dozy. They often would prop their noses on the edge of the water trough and almost fall asleep. It was hilarious, as it wasn't uncommon for them to start dozing while being milked and their propped nose would on occasion slide off the edge of the trough, and land with a large splat into the water, which of course woke them up in a hurry! :lol: [/QUOTE]
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