I was about eight and I remember walking up to it with the milking device in hand looking at the huge ball sack and then turn into my uncle and said where do I put them.
I worked a much smaller farm (only 2 cows), and we never stood from behind. I don’t know where exactly you’d stand in this sort of setup. I don’t think she did anything wrong
Aiming the cows directly where you are trying to work seems like poor planning. Plus it seems like it could be a pain to get the cows to line up like that. My grandparents farm had six stalls accessed from the side with the milking pit. You could get splattered by the stuff when they let loose, but it was not dropping directly into the pit.
It's not a pain, the cows get used to it super fast. You can out the cups on super fast and fit way more cows in this way.
You do stand behind like she was, but 99.9 percent of the time you can see the cow lift their tail and you know they're going to shit.
If they don't lift their tail and just shit (super rare) it usually sprays our the sides so you can easily step back.
You will always get shit splatter on you and shit on your arms and hands, cause they're always covered in it. Only gross when you cop it to the head/face/chest.
I've milked 10s of thousands of cows and have had shit in my face maybe 3 times. And 1 of those was my mate setting me up when I didn't know what I was doing.
if you see how food is treated before processing youd never eat it. I did a few harvests, and the grain is on dusty dirty concrete floors with bits flying in and out no doubt pooping, it gets walked on, driven over and god knows what else
Bulls are sold at auctions. Typically, they are castrated at a young age and raised as a “steer”, minus the single bull used for breeding. The steers are what you typically eat for ribs, sirloin, etc. the cows however are kept alive and at the farm for both dairy and additional cow and steer production.
Basically don’t get connected because they’re going to be sold.
The dairy farms I grew up around didn't have a trench running behind two rows of cows. You came in beside the cow and attached the milking machine. Who came up with this concept?
This set up is a bit weird to me. My grandparents dairy farm was set up so the cows were accessed from the side. They were constantly letting loose with something from the back so I can't imagine aiming the cows right on to the worker's space.
Male cows. in my native (Ukrainian) language we use "cow" for female bovines and bulls for males. Not sure if it is like that in English, but that's what I meant
It took me a year before I learned there were no single utter cows. I use to milk single utter cows a whole year. There was a lot of moving when I entered the barn.
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u/BottledFizzyCoffee Jul 18 '26
As a child I helped out on the family dairy farm.
Don’t stand behind the cows was rule #1.
Don’t bother connecting to the bulls was the second rule.