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For those of you who DO NOT have a heated barn, how do you milk? This will be my first Fall/Winter season milking. Any special care to the udder and teats? Does anyone's milking prep routine change during the cold months?
If you cut back until you stop milking her she will dry up and won't go back to milking in the spring without kidding.It gets well below freezing here in the winter and, because I have debilitating fibromyalgia, I'm very concerned that milking will have to end, for my hands and body's sake as well as for my dear Gator.
So, my question is: should I let her twins, who were born in May, nurse as they want to (she's almost got them weaned) as I slowly reduce the amount of milk I take from her each a.m.? If I do that, will she stay in milk and I can go back to milking in the spring?That would be PERFECT!