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Strange cows
Oddly enough, my cows have recently become addicted to milk, and they drink their own milk.
Since one day, my cow's milk production has obviously dropped, it is in terrible condition, milk production has changed from 4.7-5.3 litres per day to 1-1.7 litres now, and the milk bucket is no longer full. There are even times when one side of its breasts is shriveled and the other side is full, and the other day it may be the other way around.
This baffled me and I didn't understand exactly what was going on because it had enough water and free choice of sativa hay. If there's really no way to fix it, maybe it's time for me to go to a professional.
On this day, I had insomnia and finally fell asleep around 5am, and the normal milking time is 8am, I decided that since it couldn't express any milk anymore, then I could sleep for more than 3 hours and wake up and go back to handling the milk.
At 10 o'clock, I woke up and went out to milk when I heard strange noises. I put down the milking device and walked over to it, and I was surprised to find that it was standing on three legs, its lips clenching into a nipple, and it was sucking the milk hard. I couldn't help but yell at it, and it turned around and glanced at me, its face covered in milk foam, and then turned around and continued to suckle. I ran over and grabbed it, trying to stop it, not because I felt sorry for the milk, I was worried about what was going on with it.
It was very open, and although it eventually stopped, it stared at me in a daze, making me a little hairy.
I rushed back to my room and called a friend of mine who had been running the farm for generations, and he was confused by my description, but he gave me the idea to put a weaning ring on the cow's nose.
I did so, but it had limited effect, and a few days later the cows started sucking up the milk again.
I had to take a somewhat extreme step to break this bad habit of it. I took out the welder and made a steel frame that fit its neck with poles on the side, and when I put the steel frame on its neck, it could no longer suck the milk dry.
Since then, its condition and productivity have improved a lot, and it has become my sweet little cow again.
Cows drink their own milk
Strange and true stories like this are rare, but they happen all over the world. Cows drinking their own milk is like a strange contagion, which can cross mountains and oceans, and inject irresistible habits into the brains of some cows.
For cattle owners, this is very scary, because most cattle owners don't keep cows as pets, they want to make money, and if cows can't quit this habit in some way, they are usually sold as problem animals, and then end up being slaughtered as pet feed, and not eaten because cow meat is usually too fat.
But if those of us who watch the excitement find out about this behavior of cows, we might just think it's funny, right? will even ridicule that the cows are self-produced and sold, and the fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders.
In fact, this behavior of cows is not for their own benefit, on the contrary, they are suffering.
Why?
In fact, most cows don't do this, and it's rare to see something like this happen in real life, and most people wouldn't have noticed it if it weren't for the owner posting the video online. This behavior is strange for any animal, as the milk in their udders is reserved for the young, not for themselves.
Cows usually drink their own milk for two reasons.
The first is to relieve stress. Productive cows will be exposed to the stimulus of increased milk for a long time, and they will need to find some way to relieve this tightness, perhaps by sucking their own milk. But this behavior can hurt them, as cows often push too hard, can overstimulate the udders, and can also develop mastitis or elevated somatic counts if the cow's mouth is not very clean.
The second is because of stereotypical behavior. Most cows are kept in barns or barns, not allowed to fully express themselves as cows. Because of this, they exhibit uncontrollable behavioral anomalies. In horses, for example, common stereotyped behaviors are biting and twisting.
In cows, stereotypical behavior may include sucking on one's own udder, even if the udder is not yet full.