Milking

Milking is the term given to the act of removing milk from the mammary glands of an animal, typically cows (cattle) and sometimes goats. A rarely used term for the milking of cows is vaccimulgence, derived from the Latin words vacca ("cow") and emulgere ("to milk out"). Milking is also used to describe the removal of venom from spiders and snakes, for the production of antivenom.

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There are two methods of milking cows: by hand or by machine.

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Hand milking is performed by massaging and pulling down on the teats of the cows udder, squirting the milk into a bucket.

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A milking machine is designed to extract milk using a vacuum. The teat cups of the machine are attached to the cows teats, the cups alternate between vaccum and normal air pressure to extract the milk without damaging the teats of the cow.

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Cattle: Cattle (called simply cows in vernacular usage) are domesticated ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals (pulling carts, plows and the like). In some count...

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Milking related Images and Photos (experimental)

Shepherd Milking a Goat	Milking a Cow on a French Farm	Author Erskine Caldwell Milking a Russian Peasant Woman's Cow During Visit to the Front	Atmospheric Churn and Automatic Milking Machine Advertisement Maison Barnett Paris c.1867
Cats Blackie and Brownie Catching Squirts of Milk During Milking at Arch Badertscher's Dairy Farm