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<blockquote data-quote="TexasJerseyMilker" data-source="post: 1852792" data-attributes="member: 42782"><p> <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Well this is what happened. This morning we put together a stanchion with heavy steel corral panels and chains fastened to the pillars of the barn. It was a sort of a 10' narrow chute some 2x4s to keep her from backing out. I went out to get her and in the pasture she was still high headed and avoidant but she followed the old cow in. I haltered her with a proper cow halter that will squeeze the nose. Usually I just lead her by the collar but she can pull away. She went right into the chute, calmer than yesterday but still a little snorty and ate some feed. My cowboy husband put a soft looped rope around her in front of the udder. I had the pump and milker running nearby but there was really no way to put it on her in the corral panels, it was just there as part of the milking process. I went to dipping and cleaning her teats and milk her by hand. The front teats were leaking streams of milk but the back two (really tiny two finger teat) both had little plugs that I worked to milk those out. Every time I was ready to touch her I asked my husband to pull and tighten the flank rope. He said You know, this is how people make horses buck but it worked really well. When she was good after a while he would gradually let up on the pressure as a reward. If she raised a foot or stepped around he tightened it again.<br /> <br /> For a while I could milk some good streams of milk from the front two but she would shut off the milk flow just like a faucet. This is one reason I don't calf share but I kept after it. I wished I had a vial of oxytocin. Then I remembered the 'let them see the calf method' for letdown and we put the calf next to her. It did not have the desired effect just made her more uptight. We put the calf up and I kept milking what I could. When she was calm and good it was a good time to stop so I dipped her teats, put everything up and led her away. This was not the udder draining I had hoped for but now she can leak milk from all 4 teats. We will try again this evening. It wasn't as much of a rodeo as I thought.<br /> <br /> The way we are going to build an proper indoor stanchion is to rearrange corral panels make 2 stalls on that side of the barn but one will be walk in open with a stanchion like I had in Texas. I have a most amazing husband. He is calm, experienced and knowledgeable (about beef cattle) and he knows how to get things done.</td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td></td></tr></table></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasJerseyMilker, post: 1852792, member: 42782"] [TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD][TABLE] [TR] [TD]Well this is what happened. This morning we put together a stanchion with heavy steel corral panels and chains fastened to the pillars of the barn. It was a sort of a 10' narrow chute some 2x4s to keep her from backing out. I went out to get her and in the pasture she was still high headed and avoidant but she followed the old cow in. I haltered her with a proper cow halter that will squeeze the nose. Usually I just lead her by the collar but she can pull away. She went right into the chute, calmer than yesterday but still a little snorty and ate some feed. My cowboy husband put a soft looped rope around her in front of the udder. I had the pump and milker running nearby but there was really no way to put it on her in the corral panels, it was just there as part of the milking process. I went to dipping and cleaning her teats and milk her by hand. The front teats were leaking streams of milk but the back two (really tiny two finger teat) both had little plugs that I worked to milk those out. Every time I was ready to touch her I asked my husband to pull and tighten the flank rope. He said You know, this is how people make horses buck but it worked really well. When she was good after a while he would gradually let up on the pressure as a reward. If she raised a foot or stepped around he tightened it again. For a while I could milk some good streams of milk from the front two but she would shut off the milk flow just like a faucet. This is one reason I don't calf share but I kept after it. I wished I had a vial of oxytocin. Then I remembered the 'let them see the calf method' for letdown and we put the calf next to her. It did not have the desired effect just made her more uptight. We put the calf up and I kept milking what I could. When she was calm and good it was a good time to stop so I dipped her teats, put everything up and led her away. This was not the udder draining I had hoped for but now she can leak milk from all 4 teats. We will try again this evening. It wasn't as much of a rodeo as I thought. The way we are going to build an proper indoor stanchion is to rearrange corral panels make 2 stalls on that side of the barn but one will be walk in open with a stanchion like I had in Texas. I have a most amazing husband. He is calm, experienced and knowledgeable (about beef cattle) and he knows how to get things done.[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
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