video of milking a cow for the first time

[paul wheaton]

Monica, of At Wits End Homestead in Victor, Montana (a bit south of Missoula, Montana) teaches Jocelyn Campbell, of http://www.jocelynsevents.com how to milk a cow for the first time.

Monica says "Closing the milk at the top and then squeeeze." "Close, squirt, close, squirt." Otherwise the milk in the teat goes back up into the udder. Jocelyn then lines up to the dairy cow and manages to get milk on the first squeeze! Monica points out how milking a cow is actually more comfortable for the cow than being milked by a calf. Monica then shows the full speed dairy cow milking technique.

http://www.youtube.com/paulwheaton12#p/u/0/YDe4D-v731s

 

[freemotion]

Cool! I couldn't help compare that to my two-finger (barely) teated Ginger, and the cow we had as a kid, Angie, who was a dairy farm reject because here rear teats never developed well and she was also a two-finger milker.

But Paul, at the end that is half-speed milking, as she is using only one hand!