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06/22/12, 03:18 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, CANADA
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I have a pi$$ed off Jersey
My Jersey is due to have her second calf on the 25th, I don't think she is going to make it to her date. About a week ago when her udder started really filling up, she started demanding to be milked. Now the her udder is fully engorged and rock hard. She is adamant that she should be milked! When I milk the other cow she comes to the barn and watches patiently over the door, when I finish up with other cow she still waits calmly.............. Then I do the unthinkable..... turn off the milking machine. Then she gets MAD! Head butting the door, bellowing at me......It carries on for up to 3 hours after I have left the barn. I tried to go out and console her and she got her head between my legs and I rode her into the barn!!! She stuck her head in the stanchion and would not LEAVE! 
Any Vegans out there that think milking a cow is cruel need to come and tell Miss Juicy Lucy that. I keep trying to tell her if she wants to be milked she better have that baby, and it better be a HEIFER!
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06/22/12, 03:23 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Northern KY
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Too funny! I hope for both your sakes she calves sooner rather than later! 
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06/22/12, 03:45 PM
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Awww! She's a smart one, she knows you will make that "too full" feeling go away.
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06/22/12, 04:00 PM
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Awww, poor gal. Hopefully she goes soon.
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06/22/12, 04:15 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Illinois
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So milk her, not totaly uncommon to milk a cow ahead of calving if she is so large. Would you happen to have any colostrum in your freezer from your last calving ?? Just an idea. My cows all come in the barn, milking or not, I can keep an eye on them that way. I will hand milk a lttle out of some cows to check for mastitis, works great if you have the room. > Thanks Marc
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06/22/12, 04:51 PM
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if your sure she's due the 25 th milk her that may cause her to calf she's only a couple days early
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06/22/12, 07:00 PM
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Couldn't you milk her and save it (freeze?) since it should be colostrum? That way, when she does calve, you can give it to the calf.
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06/22/12, 07:11 PM
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I once had a cow whose udder swelled so much she sought out her previous heifer and got her to nurse again. It latsed until she gave birth, then stopped.
The new calf never suffered. Mama must make fresh colostrum daily. I wondered whether last year's heifer might not deplete mama's colostrum, but it obviously didn't happen.
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06/22/12, 08:41 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Milk her. Pre-milking is common practice here when we have a cow that is very full and swollen prior to calving. You can freeze the colostrum to give it to the calf, but she will produce more colostrum when she goes into labor, even if you pre-milk her.
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06/25/12, 04:15 PM
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Milking her now and then feeding the colostrum later is like mowing and baling her pasture and then feeding her the hay. Sure, it works, but why create the extra effort for no gain?
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06/25/12, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haypoint
Milking her now and then feeding the colostrum later is like mowing and baling her pasture and then feeding her the hay. Sure, it works, but why create the extra effort for no gain?
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The "gain" is the comfort of the cow.
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06/25/12, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Central Missouri
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How is grumpy?
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06/27/12, 10:14 AM
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Location: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, CANADA
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Sorry I have not been on the computer for a few days........
Miss Juicy Lucy had a perfect heifer calf on June 24th, right around 5am. The following morning she went down HARD with milk fever  She is still not back to her normal self but I think this mornings milking was the turning point. She has lost a pile if weight I have been offering her free choice of great hay and 16% dairy grain. But she has not had much interest This morning to try to get her to eat, I discovered she LOVES my senior horse grain. So she ate a bunch of that.
Her heifer is doing great! I was glad that after her first milking I kept a bunch of colostrum to replace my freezer supply, so she got lots! She is a happy and feisty little thing.
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06/27/12, 10:34 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Northern Michigan (U.P.)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MO_cows
The "gain" is the comfort of the cow.
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So you advise a person disrupt the calf's vital lessons on nursing by bottle feeding colostrum, then switch the calf back to mom? You want to engage in twice daily milking to provide about 3 days of relief?
Would those pre-gestation milkings have brought on Milk Fever earlier, putting her in critical condition for calving?
What happened to the folks that believe that Mother Nature knows best and man’s intervention isn’t needed when all is going according to nature?
Just not how I'd do it.
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06/27/12, 11:38 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Central Missouri
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I am glad your cow is doing better and the baby is doing well.
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