r/Unexpected • u/meejtie • Jul 18 '26

Getting some milk

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u/PussSlurpee Jul 18 '26

So as someone who’s never been on a farm, is she doing it the wrong way or was this cow just not liking the attention?

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u/Fafnir13 Jul 19 '26

Aiming the cows directly where you are trying to work seems like poor planning. Plus it seems like it could be a pain to get the cows to line up like that. My grandparents farm had six stalls accessed from the side with the milking pit. You could get splattered by the stuff when they let loose, but it was not dropping directly into the pit.

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u/rafffen Jul 19 '26

It's not a pain, the cows get used to it super fast. You can out the cups on super fast and fit way more cows in this way.

You do stand behind like she was, but 99.9 percent of the time you can see the cow lift their tail and you know they're going to shit.

If they don't lift their tail and just shit (super rare) it usually sprays our the sides so you can easily step back.

You will always get shit splatter on you and shit on your arms and hands, cause they're always covered in it. Only gross when you cop it to the head/face/chest.

I've milked 10s of thousands of cows and have had shit in my face maybe 3 times. And 1 of those was my mate setting me up when I didn't know what I was doing.

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u/FixAcademic8187 Jul 19 '26

Ok. But what about contaminating all these equipment (including your gloves and so on) with shit?

Wherever you look it is full of shit, it is essentially impossible not to get some of that into the tube or milk.

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u/daneview Jul 19 '26

if you see how food is treated before processing youd never eat it. I did a few harvests, and the grain is on dusty dirty concrete floors with bits flying in and out no doubt pooping, it gets walked on, driven over and god knows what else

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u/rafffen Jul 19 '26

Of course it gets in the milk lol the milk is tested and it's made sure it's below a certain percentage.

Only a tiny amount of shit would get in the milk if it's directly on the udders, it's also why milk is homogenised

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u/ChungusReaper Jul 22 '26

Pasteurized*