EZ Milker Photos

[mrs.H]

I found these, thought y'all would be interested.

http://www.udderlyez.com/html/gallery.html

[alidansma]

I got one...it is a little tall for the shorter goats.

[Jan in CO]

Just be careful how you use it! The whole bottom half of my first freshener's teat is about to fall off now due to having it positioned exactly like it shows in the pictures! She has large teats, and the hole where the vacuum is sucked onto the teat was against her teat ( I think, and my husband has explained that was what I did). Made her teat deformed, like an hourglass, broke the blood vessels, bruised it terribly. Then, due to poor circulation/no circulation, the teat got frost bite, blackened, and became hard. It now looks like it was banded, like a lamb's tail, and is about to fall off. I felt TERRIBLE!

My friend, however is using it right now on her first fresheners, and loves it! I think it's great for tiny teats, but I won't use it again on one with average or large ones.

Jan in CO

[ma1bob]

It is still too expensive. They must think that homesteaders are wealthy. This seems to be a common issue with items for small farmers. We choose not to feed their greed. When companies are willing to charge a fair price for thier products than they can do biz with us.

OK I'm off my soapbox now.

Cheers

Bob

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

I bought one of the others called a Maggidans Milker. It has various sized teat cups which are really syringes without the plunger - in fact the larger sized teat cup was just a big syringe. I am going to Tractor Supply this morning and I will check into the parts that are needed to make a homemade Maggiedans Milker. My Maggiedans Milker cost me $45.00 with free shipping and works great - will be interesting to see if it can be made for that.

[chrisl]

The Maggiedan is nothing more than an autosyringe/drencher with a syringe hull as the teat cup. I just got one, and was disappoinited that I didn't think of doing the same thing. The autosyringe/drencher is a 12ml cost about $19 - $30, the tubing comes with the syringe and what ever size of teat cup (syringe hull) you need.


Chris

[Terre d'Esprit]

Can someone post on how to put one together? I am interested in making one for myself.

Thanks!

T