If a cow is not milked then will it explode/pop?

Question

If a cow is not milked then will it explode/pop?

Answer 1

Well, this is way unlikey to occur.

However, if they do not f**t to release the methane gas build up, they could be a living bomb.

Answer 2

No, if this was true, there would be alot of exploding cows in the fall.

When a cow calves, she makes milk for him.  Dairy cows are separated from the calves which are bottle or bucket fed.  All the milk is taken from the cow after a couple of days.  She will produce all she can.  Stock cows that keep their calves will adjust their production to what their calf needs.  If the cow is bred back they have a 9  month gestation and need to be dried up for a few months before calving to give her body a break and making sure she produces a healthy calf.  When you stop milking a cow, she will still produce, but after awhile with no milk being taken out of her, she will dry up.  

Hope this helps your problem with exploding cows.

Answer 3

No, they don't do that in the wild lol.

Answer 4

yes, like your brain, if you don't stop aksing such stupid things

Answer 5

No, but it's very painful and it will lower their milk production.  The udders will produce as much milk as needed and the more often they're milked, the more milk they produce. All mammals do this and is why a mammal can feed two offspring as well as one.

Answer 6

They will not explode, but often their utters will spoil from the build up of too much milk if it is not removed.  The cow's utter is divided into four quarters, with each of the four teats on a different section.  It is not uncommon in beef cattle when a new born calf dies and the cow is not milked by hand for several days the utter swells, becomes inflamed, and the utter will spoil.  This usually will happen to only one or maybe two of the utters quarters.  Once the quarter is spoiled it will never produce milk again.  The cow will often go on to be a good cow with three or even two functioning teats.  In dairy cattle this is not much of a problem since they are routinely milked daily anyway.  If a dairy herd was neglected I would guess it would be a big problem, because it usually is the best milkers that are effected first.

Answer 7

No. The milk will just get sucked back by the cow.

Answer 8

No, not burst or explode exactly, but rip apart from the weight of the milk and pressure in their swollen glands since they are given so many hormones to keep the cows producing far more than they naturally would, it would be seriously painful for the cow who would suffer from engorgement and likely infections.  It could lead to a painful death.

When any mother - human or animal - nurses their baby, enough milk is produced to satisfy the baby.  As the baby gets older and slows down from nursing, the milk begins to slow in production until the glands stop producing milk.

People forget that cows are not a piece of machinery but rather are animals who have been forced to live in confined worlds and are totally dependant upon those keeping them in confinement to provide for their needs.  

When cows are neglected or treated inhumanely, those keeping them are guilty of animal abuse - no different than dog fighting or any other form of animal torture.  It is very sad that animals are being treated so inhumanely around the world.  

It is far better to buy organic and free range for their health and yours.

Answer 9

no but they will leak

Answer 10

Most dairy cows (Holsteins) are so such overbred milking machines that they have very short lives.

Some commercial dairys milk their cows three times a day now, the cows produce such an extreme amount of milk.

A commercial Holstein, full of the steriods, hormones, and supper concentrated feed rations would have a terrible time, if she were not milked.  Her udder would split open, (her bodies way of relieving the pressure) if she missed a couple of milkings.

If something ever happened to America's dairy farmers (let's say bird flu) the comercial dairy cows would drop like flies.  Within about three days of not being milked, almost the entire herd would be dead.

The Holsteins even produce too much milk for a calf now.  A single calf would not be able to nurse enough milk off it's mother, and keep her alive and well.

If the cows did not die of a ruptured udder, they would die of a massive infection, called mastitis.  Bacteria would get into the udder, and cause a horrible infection, that would kill the cow.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 11

I don't think it will explode or "pop", but it would get very sick and eventually die, probably not a very pleasant death either.

I've also heard of cows "drying" up, meaning they stop producing milk.....for some reason.

Now if it is a cow that has never had a calf, a heifer, then it hasn't begun to produce milk anyway so it wouldn't matter...