heifers not letting milk down

royalmeath

Hi I have two heifers calved Tuesday and so far they are hardly letting a drop of milk down. Any advice on how to coax them along or is it just a matter of patience

mf240

You can get oxytocin to stimulate milk let down, keep them calm if there nervous they won't let. Milk down,

biddy2013

talk to them and rub their udder while machine is on them, some one on here, brought the calf into the parlour and it helped

sheebadog

Veterinary glove on, hand in vagina. No oxytocin.

royalmeath

sheebadog wrote: »

Veterinary glove on, hand in vagina. No oxytocin.

And milk her with my free hand.

Timmaay

Had one i needed to give an injection to last night, the only way she'd let down the milk. Pure kicker, and I'll admit I wasn't the calmest myself either! (recipe for disaster!). Anyways this morning I rubbed her down, and basically pretended to be a calf searching around the udder before finding the teats. And low and behold the milk started pissing out, and she let me put on the cluster without too much hassle. No kicking bar etc at all. Lesson finally learnt for me ha, best thing I do also if I've lost patience is to leave her and return afew mins later also.

Greengrass1

Timmaay wrote: »

Had one i needed to give an injection to last night, the only way she'd let down the milk. Pure kicker, and I'll admit I wasn't the calmest myself either! (recipe for disaster!). Anyways this morning I rubbed her down, and basically pretended to be a calf searching around the udder before finding the teats. And low and behold the milk started pissing out, and she let me put on the cluster without too much hassle. No kicking bar etc at all. Lesson finally learnt for me ha, best thing I do also if I've lost patience is to leave her and return afew mins later also.

I can hold my temper for a while but if they don't stand after a few milkings I get think with them.
Have one at the moment who is calved 2 weeks and will kick the bar repeatedly for a good few minutes

onyerbikepat

Someone did post on here about letting the calf in at the head of the heifer and he was delighted with the results.

sandydan

had one just kicked out over top bar ,busted recording jar and stood quiet as mouse from then on,the quite one getting cross after a week or two are worst,i bring them in before calving and massage udders with dairy ointment and then as soon as they are able to walk in just after calving and tie both legs to rump rail, letting calves suck is a recipe for disaster i think, i give them meal based ration instead of nuts, keeps them occupied longer.massaging udder and applying dairy ointment sparingly before and after milking as well as curtailing feed slightly using a lower protein ration as well a radio turned on low in housing and parlour, it only annoys the vet

case 956

tickle them and make them laugh that should relax them and let the milk down :P on a serious note just make sure she relaxed, pre dip her strig her and she should then have no bother.. that what works for me