Teat cups

[zorares]

My daughter currently milks our goats (2 right now) but when she's not around, we have a real problem. My hands are too big and my wife and I discussed building a milker out of her old breast pump from when she nursed the children. I seems that all I need are some plastic teat cups that I can hook the tubes to. Problem is that all I've found so far on Google are cups for industrial machines. Anyone know of a supplier (or alternative) of plastic teat cups?

[Ellie Mae]

we use plastic syringe tubes that we get from the feed store, small for the Nigerians and large for our Alpines and Nubians.

but we have a maggi dan's that came with "couplings?" that the syringe tubes screw into, so not sure what you have on the ends of the breast pump tubing...
We also have to break suction frequently when we use it to not cause pain and/or damage to the teats.

if you do a search on the forum, some folks have posted their homemade setups that you could check out,

and welcome to HT!

[zorares]

Thanks. I'm new at this hobby farm thing and I always forget the feed stores. The syringes sound perfect. My wife's old breast pump had rubber tubes so I bet they'll attach to the syringes.