Posted by dhermesc on March 25, 2016 at 08:13:18 from (24.248.193.103):
We have a 6 year old Brown Swiss with a little Jersey. She has had 3 calves but missed being bred this year after a failed attempt at AI. Every since we bought this animal she has had an issue with dropping her milk and the older she gets the worse it gets. Currently we are allowing a calf to suck on one side while a person milks the other side. In the evenings you just can't get her to drop her milk even while you massage one side and the calf nurses on the other. She might give a quart of milk at night. In the mornings if you let the calf suck for a while then you milk and massage her bag on the other she might "drop" and give a good half gallon on side while the calf sucks her out on the other. Some times in the morning she flat won't "drop" her milk either and you get a quart or less. If she does this on one morning the next morning she'll have so much milk its dripping and you'll a full gallon or more on just one side of her bag then you'll have to milk out the other side the calf sucked on because he'll get full.
The milk she gives is "sweet" and is usually about 1/3 to 1/4 cream. I don't think she has mastitis as her bag isn't hard, and there hasn't been any curdled or clotted milk.
After her first calf I noticed she wouldn't drop her milk unless you really worked at and had her calf in the pen when you were milking. Sometimes she gave it up easy with calf nudging her other times you'd spend 10-15 minutes massaging and coaxing her befor it would "drop". With each calf she has gotten worse.
What's the issue here? As she has gotten older she has gotten more cranky and she really dislikes the calf we are trying to force her to adopt (refuses to let him suck unless she has a pan of grain in front of her). I'm ready to just send her down the road and start over with another cow but she has had some really nice calves when bred to an Angus.
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