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Training a Heifer Cow to Milk Without a Stanchion

Luna has never had a calf, much less been milked before. She is used to being around people, but that's about it. This is the first ten days of taking her from a being nervous heifer to standing still and having a belly milker hanging on her for 15 minutes at a time. I don't like using stanchions, as they don't fully train a cow to stand still and be milked. Plus they only control the front of the cow and not the back, and so I've seen a lot of cows trained on stanchions to be very 'kicky'. The way that we train them, they enjoy the feed and the process of milking enough that they either obey and sit still, or the feed is removed from them until tomorrow. Fortunatley, with Luna, we never had to do that (at least not yet). After ten days she is doing very well, although the real test will come after she has her calf. #educational #instructional