Here’s another common question I get: How old are cows when they start getting milked? 🐄 It depends on when she’s bred and has a calf for the first time. Typically, dairy cows enter the milking herd at around 2 years old. But sometimes a farmer may intentionally delay breeding a cow to make sure she’s ready to carry a pregnancy. Other times life just happens and a cow takes a little while longer to be bred. Regardless of how old she is, what matters most is that she’s physically ready and healt

90K views · 1K reactions | This pen of 500 breeding cows at county line dairy will be milked in about an hour Delaval’s E 500 parlor and a great team make this happen | Drumgoon Dairy | Facebook