Do cows like to be milked?!
Do cows like to be milked?
Answers:
No. Like all other female mammals (including human women) female cows would handle their breast milk just fine without the *help* of humans.
Don't you think it is odd that cows are the ONLY mammal on Earth that would miraculously become engorged and die if we did not steal their babies' breast milk? That is just what people say to justify their torture... even so called "happy cows"
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Good luck in your quest.
Some info for thought.
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Regardless of where they live, however, all dairy cows must give birth in order to begin producing milk. Today, dairy cows are forced to have a calf every year. Like human beings, cows have a nine-month gestation period, and so giving birth every twelve months is physically demanding. The cows are also artificially re-impregnated while they are still lactating from their previous birthing, so their bodies are still producing milk during seven months of their nine-month pregnancy.
With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day ― ten times more than they would produce naturally. As a result, the cows' bodies are under constant stress, and they are at risk for numerous health problems.
Approximately half of the country's dairy cows suffer from mastitis, a bacterial infection of their udders. This is such a common and costly ailment that a dairy industry group, the National Mastitis Council, was formed specifically to combat the disease. Other diseases, such as Bovine Leukemia Virus, Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus, and Johne's disease (whose human counterpart is Crohn's disease) are also rampant on modern dairies, but they commonly go unnoticed because they are either difficult to detect or have a long incubation period.
A cow eating a normal grass diet could not produce milk at the abnormal levels expected on modern dairies, and so today's dairy cows must be given high energy feeds. The unnaturally rich diet causes metabolic disorders including ketosis, which can be fatal, and laminitis, which causes lameness.
Another dairy industry disease caused by intensive milk production is "Milk Fever." This ailment is caused by calcium deficiency, and it occurs when milk secretion depletes calcium faster than it can be replenished in the blood.
In a healthy environment, cows would live in excess of twenty-five years, but on modern dairies, they are slaughtered and made into ground beef after just three or four years. The abuse wreaked upon the bodies of dairy cows is so intense that the dairy industry also is a huge source of "downed animals" ― animals who are so sick or injured that they are unable to walk even stand. Investigators have documented downed animals routinely being beaten, dragged, or pushed with bulldozers in attempts to move them to slaughter.
Although the dairy industry is familiar with the cows' health problems and suffering associated with intensive milk production, it continues to subject cows to even worse abuses in the name of increased profit. Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH), a synthetic hormone, is now being injected into cows to get them to produce even more milk. Besides adversely affecting the cows' health, BGH also increases birth defects in their calves.
Calves born to dairy cows are separated from their mothers immediately after birth. The half that are born female are raised to replace older dairy cows in the milking herd. The other half of the calves are male, and because they will never produce milk, they are raised and slaughtered for meat. Most are killed for beef, with close to one million being used for veal.
The veal industry was created as a by-product of the dairy industry to take advantage of an abundant supply of unwanted male calves. Veal calves commonly live for eighteen to twenty weeks in wooden crates that are so small that they cannot turn around, stretch their legs, or even lie down comfortably. The calves are fed a liquid milk substitute, deficient in iron and fiber, which is designed to make the animals anemic, resulting in the light-colored flesh that is prized as veal. In addition to this high-priced veal, some calves are killed at just a few days old to be sold as low-grade 'bob' veal for products like frozen TV dinners.
Source(s):
http://www.factoryfarming.com/dairy.htm...
http://www.milksucks.com
Yup.
If you don't milk a cow, she becomes engorged and it becomes painful to touch her or move.
I don't know, but Bulls do. We had a bull and a cow growing up in Nebraska and the bull always enjoyed it when I milked it, although its milk tasted kinda sour & salty.
Yes they do. They will be in agony when they are full of milk and it relieves the pain when they are milked. This is why women have to use the compresses and medication if they do not plan to nurse after a delivery.
I believe that they do. They have different temperaments - some are aggressive, but it is at least a relief for them, from the pressure.
An interesting question.
On the one hand, dairy cows are bred to have HUGE udders (much larger than a normal cow), so when they are full of milk they are painful, and can barely walk. If their teats drag the ground, I'm sure that is very uncomfortable as well.
On the other hand, mechanical "milking machines" that milk most cows can result in rawness, leading to injury and infection. Many cows have sores on their teats (leaking puss, blood, etc) that require constant treatment to keep them from ulcerating. I don't imagine hooking a milking machine up to those feels very good.
It's a natural thing for a cow to be milked, as it uses this action to feed it's young. It can get very painful for it if it doesn't get the release of that milk from it's udder. I'm not sure if it's pleasant for it at a milking facility, but then I've never actually seen it done. So I suppose from their young yes they do and from people, probably not!
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It's my understanding they like it. My wife is vegetarian though and her complaint with milk cows is that they are forced to be impregnated constantly to always produce milk and have to live their lives in very cramped and miserable stalls.
She makes a good point I'll admit. As for me, I guess I just accept it as the way things are. I do try to buy milk from local companies who allow their cows to live on vast pastures though.
Oh please have you ever seen what those titts look like when they are too full.Pains me to think about it.....Thanks for 2.
Not the cows most people get their milk from....
(Unless you have a pet "pampered cow" and you "milk" her and "churn" your own butter from her milk...And eat fish)
don't mind that above... not meant towards you...
Anyway... I have "heard" (I don't know I don't have a cow)
that cows utters become engorged and painful if not milked...
But keep in mind, the milk you get from the supermarket... is from cows that are kept imprisoned, kept pregnant, and given hormones so they keep producing milk, until of course when they can't any more, then they are sent off to their painful deaths.
The way they are milked, isn't by hand, which I'm guess wouldn't hurt too much... But they are milked by having these milking machines hooked up to their utters... eventually the cows develop painful infections from having these things hooked up to them... I wouldn't like being milked that way very much, I don't think the cows do either... I mean, would you?
It is a necessity for cows to be milked since full udders are painful.
However, for cows to have milk, they need to be pregnant. So cows are artificially inseminated and when their udders are full, they are hooked up to machines to milk them, which usually causes swelling and pus formation. That is why there is pus in milk.
Only by their baby calve, not by a human.
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