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Despite following many non-technology hashtags there's lots of computer technology chatter in my #mastodon feed. Let's change that for #sunday!
So #fediverse: have you ever milked a cow? (or goat, sheep etc.)
edit: it's sunday, best to put a CW on photos of you milking your hamster.
@Pepijn it feels odd to vote No as someone who was born onto a dairy farm, but the family left it soon after, and frankly even by then all milking was done by machine.
(and to spare age-date checking that was the early 1960s)
FWIW similarly with the sheep farming side of the family, where I helped muster the flock into my teens, no-one had shorn by hand for years.
So it's an interesting type of question.
@geraldew Thanks. Maybe scale plays a role as well. On Dutch dairy farms (~100-250 cows) even today most people will have some limited experience with milking by hand. This mostly in special cases for a sick cow or one that just calved.
