Guidelines For Milking
- Give some fodder/hay to eat during milking
- Wash the udder properly with clean water; wipe it with a dry towel
- Turn on the machine and cut off the vacuum on the milking claw, which can be attached to the cow’s udder later. This will help building pressure. Lock the vacuum stop in locking position.
- Watch the pressure on the vacuum gauge; let it reach 380 mmhg (like 12 noon in our clock)
- Attach teat cups on the teats of the cow. You need to fold and fix the teats cups to the teats without loosing vacuum, be quick as possible. While folding the vacuum to that teat cup is blocked in the bottom part of the liner after the teat cup.
- If the way you attach the other teat cups is not correct/slow, the first one or two teat cups attached already might slip out.
- Loosing of vacuum results in rest of the cups not getting attached to the teats.
- You will now see the milk flowing in the transparent milk tube.
- Make sure there is no disturbance to the cow. Do not leave the calf near the cow. Avoid creating that habit.
- The milk flow is over when you are not seeing any milk flowing inside the transparent milk hose attached to the cluster assembly and milk can.
- Unlock the vacuum stop under the milking cluster to cut vacuum in the milking cluster assembly.
- Make sure you dip the teats of the cow with iodine diluted in plain water. Better to use non returnable dip cups so that the solution once used will not get mixed with the solution to be used again. Throw out the solution once used for teat dipping, preventing any udder infection from one cow to another. Udder sprays also can be used.
Happy Milking !!
Murali Krishnan
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