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slow milking heifer

  • 26-05-2011 10:01pm
    #1
    deise toffee
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭


    Have a heifer calved about two months,she is very slow to leave the milk down.The row of cows would be finished and she would be still milking away.I wet her well before milking to soften the teats and pull her out a few times,but she is still very slow.Any advice?Have an instrument that you insert up the teat canal to widen the holes but dont want to be using this,only as a last resort.Any other ideas for me?


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  • #2
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    I have one of those too but no milk at all. I tried oxytocin injection from the vet. No withdrawl as it is a natural hormone and can be given just before putting on the cluster. Only costs a few euro too and should help.

    The down side is it is addictive and should only be used for a few milkings. The woman in the shop told me about a guy who used it a lot on his cows and had loads of cows that just wouldnt let down milk after useing it for a few days and had to be weaned off slowly.

    The cows were addicted:D. Just use it on the cows


  • #3
    LostCovey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭LostCovey


    5live wrote: »
    I have one of those too but no milk at all. I tried oxytocin injection from the vet. No withdrawl as it is a natural hormone and can be given just before putting on the cluster. Only costs a few euro too and should help.

    The down side is it is addictive and should only be used for a few milkings. The woman in the shop told me about a guy who used it a lot on his cows and had loads of cows that just wouldnt let down milk after useing it for a few days and had to be weaned off slowly.

    The cows were addicted:D. Just use it on the cows

    Use it with another cue, like a handful of nuts, then keep cutting the dose, and giving the few nuts and the cow will associate nuts, oxytocin, milk let-down. QED.

    Pavlovian logic.

    It works too.

    LC


  • #4
    5live
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    LostCovey wrote: »
    Use it with another cue, like a handful of nuts, then keep cutting the dose, and giving the few nuts and the cow will associate nuts, oxytocin, milk let-down. QED.

    Pavlovian logic.

    It works too.

    LC
    Yeah the problem was she was letting milk down as soon as she entered the round and had nothing left for milking. I just gave 1.5 ccs for 2 days and now just put on the unit when she enters as that seems to be her trigger.

    I was just wondering last night if the cow just had a small opening rather than a bad trigger for let down?


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