Well, they do kick. Trust me, I tried to milk one. Also the milk ejection
itself is very different from humans. I am pretty good at hand expression.
Once, while I lived on the farm I went to get my milk from the Amish and the
kids offered to teach me milking. I tried, but got no milk for about 10
minutes, then a three year-old toddled by, pulled the teat, and the milk
shot out of that cow. Not good for my self-esteem, but funny.


-- 
Henya
Brooklyn,NY

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Karen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> At a women's breakfast a friend told me a story "I could appreciate" about
> her first breastfeeding experience, with the warning tell lactnetters NOT to
> do this.  This new mom (now  a grandmother) leaked profusely with her first
> baby and thought there had to be something she could do about it.  Her
> father had used collodion on the cows teats between milking to keep the ones
> with loose sphincter muscles from dripping and loosing milk.  After milking,
> the cow's teat would be dipped in the solution and a hard covering would
> form at the end which could be easily seen before the next milking and
> popped off. So, she called up the dairy "drug supplier" and asked for a
> supply hoping he would think it was just for her dad's cows. Well, the stuff
> burned like H--- and it DID form an impenetrable barrier that she could NOT
> just pop off at the next feeding. The women's eyebrows went up with horror
> at this and they asked what she did.  She had a hungry screaming baby that
> she was afraid to nurse because she didn't know what collodion would do if
> he swallowed it and painfully had to pick the seal off in little pieces-
> probably with pieces of her!  We decided that cows must not have much
> feeling in their teats or they would kick?
>
> I had a hard time finding anything about collodion on line and am wondering
> if there are any dairy farmers out there that still use this?
>
> Karen Graham, IBCLC central PA dairyland
>
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