I need to do some thinking on the schedule. Milking 3x a day might work well for now...
(I still almost can't believe I've gotten this far on the project - with a green cow and a green milk maid - maybe it's because we're both Irish and green is our lucky color)
(I still almost can't believe I've gotten this far on the project - with a green cow and a green milk maid - maybe it's because we're both Irish and green is our lucky color)
Penned up the calf for about 5 hours and got 16 oz. of milk out of two quarters (I left the other two for the calf). I presume there would have been about a quart if I'd milked both sides...
The side that I didn't milk has a *very* sore looking teat. Is there anything I can do? I saw something about taping one up to keep the calf off of it. Would that help mama to heal up?
Seeing how rough the calf is on the udder, I almost think it's kinder to milk the poor cow and bucket feed the calf! Geeze, those calves are rough on mama!! She gets more irritated at the calf boxing her in the udder than she ever gets at me.