Milking a cow......

I can remember at primary school (a long time ago) we went to a dairy farm and we had a go at milking, then tried the milk out of the big vats. My husband worked on a dairy farm. I have also taken the kids to oakvale farm at salt ash and they all got to milk the cow there. They thought it was great. Best wishes, calais

i am pretty sure if i milk a cow it would pretty much squirt every where

No, I've never milked a cow. In fact I would love to go to a dairy farm to milk a cow. How about you? :) Pablo

hey once i tried and almmost i succeded but finally i can conclude that milking a cow is not a easy job

No sweets I haven't - does it count if you have milked a goat? Not that I have done that either but I can think of some who might have! lol xxxx

No, I haven't. Actually I hardly have a chance to see the real cow here. I am living in the city.

i have milked a few cows in the past, because i live on a farm, i havent really had much milk from our cows but i have tried it before. all our cows are friendly (most of them lol) i have even rared calves up before that have either lost their mum or the mum are to weak to feed them.

Yes, I have. When I was about 12 or 13 dad sent Mum and us kids on holiday to a guest house at Walacia, just the other side of Penrith,. For breakfast we had porridge and fresh creamy milk still warm from the cow. We would go exploring all over the place and one morning I got to watch the cow, Bluebell, being milked. They let me have a go and showed me how the old fashioned separator worked. I've never forgotten it. I milked the cow and had her milk on my breakfast.

not personally - only on a dummy cow that was set up at an exhibition once. I did not succeed btw. I have dairy farmers in the family - when we were children our older cousin would squirt my brother in the face with the cow milk. my brother hated milk! I always loved the smell of the dairy barn, especially the milk room - the warm humidity the smell of the milk and cream and the slickness of the stainless steel vessels - thank you for the nice trip down memory lane.

Yup I sure have! Grew up on a dairy farm, and helped do the milking with a milking machine, Then I went to Saskatchewan to work in the grain harvest. The farmer had a milk cow, and it became part of my job, to get up at 6 am to milk the cow by hand. I'd never done it before, but she was a nice cow, who seemed to enjoy having me squeeze her nipples,( a cow has Teats) Its quite easy to squirt the milk into the pail. You have to hold the teat firmly in your hand, and close your thumb and first finger at the top (next to the udder) first, so the milk is trapped in the teat. Then squeeze with the rest of your fingers. Keep squeezing till the milk stops squirting, and then relax your hand while pushing up against the udder. Then begin the process all over again. The cow has 4 teats, so you have to use Both hands at once, You milk two teats dry, and then switch to the udder two!

Yes, when my wife and I lived on our 8 acre homestead, we had a milk cow that we milked by hand, also 3 milk goats that we milked!