What happens to a cow that doesn't get milked for a year?

Answer 1

If a cow is not milked, she will experience a very swollen, sore and tender udder for several days which may subject her to mastitis, but after a little while, she begins to "dry up" or decrease in milk production, and the milk that is in her udder begins to get reabsorbed back into her body. After a few weeks her udder becomes loose and flabby, and she will not be producing milk anymore. A cow will not die if she does not get milked or for some reason stops milk production.

Answer 2

If a cow is left unmilked just once she is likely to reduce milk-production almost immediately and the rest of the season may see her dried off (giving no milk) and still consuming feed for no production

Answer 3

Cow can not stop producing milk suddenly, unless its under strees then the secreation of adrenalene hormone stoped the milk producing after 20 minutes the cow gose back for milking , reducing of milk producation has a relatione with many reasons such as disesase , poor rations , old age , bad management etc.. you should know that producing milk depend mainly on cow rations if its good , a cow will produce a good qualilty and quantity of milk , in general a cow gives us milk for 305 days and then it need a rest for 60 days ( dry period ) to prepare herself for next calving seasone

Dr. Jayel

Answer 4

She will simply start to dry up and slow milk production to the point where she's not producing milk anymore. But this doesn't happen overnight, it happens over the course of two to four weeks.

Answer 5

She will be sore and swollen with milk for a few days, but then start to dry up after that.

Answer 6

Nothing. She doesn't produce milk, period. If cows are not milked, they will dry up in a matter of a few days to a few weeks, and will remain dry for the rest of the year.

Answer 7

The milk gets absorbed back into the cow's system. The first few days of not being milked can be quite discomforting, but it goes away after a few days to a couple weeks.

Answer 8

They're milk will go rotten. And there will be a likely chance they will die! :(

Answer 9

No. She may get mastitis if bacteria enter the teat canal of her udder or if it gets bumped and bruised too much, but if she's not milked, she won't get sick.