Milking practice

MILKING PRACTICE

  • Teats may be, milked crosswise.
  • First preference may be given to teats appearing most distented.
  • Preferably the forequarters together.
  • Hind quarters together.
  • The best practice is to milk the highest yielder first in the morning milking and least at the evening milking.
  • However, among the milch animals the following order of milking is desirable
    • HeifersĀ 
    • Milk cows
    • Any infected animals in lactation
    • Cows with swellings, lumps, tenderness in udder, sores on the teats or blocked milk channel, suffering from mastitis and producĀ­ing colostrum pretreated with antibiotics or drugs should be milked at the end of milking operation.
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