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And when did June last drink cow's milk?Our dairy cows are the product of an intense breeding programme, they do not exist in the wild. They do have to be milked twice a day or they would be in big trouble!
Don is right.......according to my Son.... the female left to her own after being milked for years...will most likely develop very bad infections and could easily die... so here when an old cow is put out to pasture... and this is rare, tube type things are inserted into her utters which help drain her milk and dry her out.... the teets have to be treated daily with iodine to ward off infection etc...if she does not calf she will not produce milk... calves come about twice a year after semination or artificial insemination...so comes the milk....After 10 to 15 years, thats stretching it, depending on the breed or individual cow this process is repeated insemination calving milking.. twice a year...The drain thing is rare.....usually used to drain infected teets... most cows produce and calf up until they die.. so out to pasture is a really rare term for dairy cows.. at least in lines of retirement!A bull would more likely go to pasture to breed...Such a cheauvenistic society even with Bovine!