5-18-11 Milking Cows

by Jacob

Last week I started milking cows at Gregg Sauder's. When we first get there we go into the milk house and carry all 12 milking units to the parlor. I set them all up while Jesse is in the milk house getting everything ready. Once everything is set up, we go to the show barn and lead the show cows to the parlor with a halter. Once all the show cows are milked, we lead them all back to the show barn. Then we start to milk the herd. That is just all of the same. Let them into the parlor, and the cows know just what to do. They stick their heads in the head lock and we shut them in. We dip their teats with iodine. After using paper towels to wipe off the iodine, we hang the milkers. We do that over and over. Once we are done we spray down the whole parlor and take all the milking units back into the milk house to be cleaned. Once all that is done we pack up and go home.