hand milking thingie question

[hobbyfarmer]

I have one of the Maggidans milkers. It's working pretty well for me because I don't have running water in my barn for clean up on a bigger milking machine and while I don't usually mind hand milking my girls, I'm not especially fast at it and sometimes I need to rush. The milker gets the girls milked quickly but the only real milking machine I have ever used was a surge milker with actual inflations and this little thing uses a syringe tube as the inflation. I'm thinking that is bound to be uncomfortable!

I have thought of super glueing some gasket material to the outer edge of the syringe to make it padded but I don't think that would be very sanitary. I have an old inflation still here but it won't work with the aquarium tubing that came on the hand milker - any ideas? The suction is strong enough that it pulls the teats down into the syringe and it looks pretty painful.

I've tried lowering the suction - it's not pinching or anything- I just wonder how I can make the syringe tube itself more comfortable for my does. ???

TIA

[Alice In TX/MO]

I don't think it bothers them.