The Truth About How I Milk My Cow... 

Subscribed, good video. If you are open to some input keep reading. The pee and poop are nerves, stress, aggravation, changes can cause various levels of stress and the p and p is mild protest, at least she is somewhat cooperative and entering the stall. A few changes in the stall design could make her a bit more at ease. More space from the stanchion to the wall in front and she won't feel like she is in a box trap. Mount the stanchion no more than 8 inches from the floor to the bottom of the neck opening. Lower the food pan to below her knees and she will slow down on eating while reducing the chocking hazard from eating with a cramped throat. A few large rocks in the feed pan will slow her down a bit as well. Always plan milking stalls and housing for what if she falls or goes down, prepare for the worst and hope for the best, cows will test your readiness and patients. Cleaning the milker is a bit of pain with a harsh learning curve. Surge can be easily cleaned with the right brushes and dairy chemicals that are designed to remove the milk and it's parts from the equipment. Pail mikers are much harder and become easier with time and practice. Keep up sharing what you do, inspire others to do things to improve their daily life, learn, make adjustments and share some more.

I could milk 4 cows morning and night as a kid, about 5 min per cow, never used kickers, we sold cream to the creamery so calves and hogs got the milk left over, took about 5 minutes to churn a gallon of to butter,

Great walkthrough with your trials & errors and thought process. Thanks for putting this together.

That intro was so funny! You do good work. Agree pick your battles. Flies are the worst! Val C

Hahaha! I love it bro! Awesome thinking with the hay rack! That’s a great idea! I also mix hay into the grain too slow her earring down when milking! Video quality is getting better and better! Awesome job!

I was going to say use a bucket for her poops and pees and then I saw you use one. Our cow does the same thing and we always have one right behind her. She was in the habit of waiting right out side the gate and would do her thing before we let her in the stanchion. That was really nice!

I am a subscriber to the Toups Time Channel and read a comment you left on one of their videos. I enjoy their homesteading videos and looks like your channel is very similar. I subscribed to your channel and enjoyed the videos that I have been able to watch. I appreciate how you talk your viewers through each step of what your doing in the video. Best wishes as your channel grows and develops.

We reluctantly got a melasty milker after 3 years handmilking. I'll never go back. But I am grateful I've been through it and can always go back to handmilking if needed. We clean simply with hot water then half a cup of white vinegar in hot water then hot water again. It is simple and the milk is cleaner than hand milking and we empty her out in a much shorter time. It is much safer for everyone involved. We have an outdoor milking stanchion. I agree that your feeding set up is not ideal and she should be lowering her head slightly to eat not having to lift up her head as that is not the natural position for a cow. We feed org alfalfa pellets and pellets and the machine is so quick she doesn't run out. I love your content. Keep sharing.

Bing watching. So exciting watching you guys!

I see you have the milker container strapped to her back. That went out 10 centuries ago. Buy some extra tubing to go from the teats to the tank and the tank some distance ahead and on the floor. God Bless Joe Scott Muddy Dog Ranch

Put apple cider vinegar in her water it will help reduce the flies. God bless you all.

lovely cow thanks

It all seemed logical to me! I am still catching up on 2 years... I gotta know, did she stop the peeing?🙄

Alfalfa pellets are a nice milking treat, too.

Well "Guernsey Boy" I am glad to see that you have decided to try a milking machine. You will be glad you did once you get into it. Nothing wrong with machine milking. I milked by hand for 25 years and then invested in a milking machine very similar to the one in your vid . Now after another 20+ years using a machine .I wouldn't trade it for anything. I liked the way you repurposed the hay feeder and built yourself a stanchion. Ya might try mixing some wet beet pulp with the feed. It makes it go a lot further. I use it every day. I agree with your choice of fly spray. I use it all the time as well. Works good. You will get used to cleaning up the milking equipment. It will become a routine. In regards to your cow peeing and pooping while milking. Cows don't like change. She is in a total different situation with the machine and new stanchion and feeder etc. She may calm down once she gets used to it. It could be that she is away from the others as well. Some cows never get past that. Ya live with it or move the cow on down the road. Another thing I will share with you. When the weather get cold you might want to enclose or at least hang a heat bulb over our machine. The pump oil gets kinda thick in cold weather and it wont run as well. Or at least mine didn't. I enjoyed your vid. I admire your persistents till you get it right. oh & Never say Never.. :)

Love your videos! Hand milking for 6 years is a lot of work! I just got my first cow 2 months ago and my hands and arms still are sore. Lol! Considering getting a surge milker as well for when my cow freshens. Did the surge milker come refurbished or did you have to do some work to it? I know they are vintage milkers and I have no idea where to start when purchasing one. Would love to see a video talking about the process of how you got it, use it, and clean it!

I feel like the milking machine never gets all the milk, it's a pain to clean, and it hurts their teats/udder more. Not worth it imo.

Surprised that u hadn’t learned to milk the front quarts together and the back quarters together as the back will be almost twice the milk as the front

I've tried making organic fly spray. None of them worked!

I have something to confess. The cow... It's really a bull... :) Naa I have cows too, grew up on the same farm, but it just made me think of City Slickers 2.

The pooping and peeing is so annoying! My cow goes through phases if that as well. I was curious how your puppy is doing, and also how your bees are doing? Is your garden getting close to wrapping up for the year, or are you doing a fall garden? I tried planting for a fall garden last month but we had record heat and pretty much everything died. I think I'm out of time now. Hopefully next year...