Do milking machines injure/hurt cows?

No. If they did, no cow would willingly walk in and be milked. I would not like to force an angry cow to go somewhere it did not want to. Would you? Have you milked cows by hand or by machine? I doubt it. I wonder if you've even seen a cow being m... read more

Milking Machines cannot hurt a cow why because teats come in contact with rubber liners only and the vacuum is measured and passed on to the teats of the cow. While hand milking, our nails hurt the teats of the cow. Variation in speed of milking by farmers will affect the cows. read more

Milking of cow is done in the same way. In commercial dairy farms milking machine are used for milking. Milking Machine are worked vacuum & designed in the same way which create the effect of sucking. The vaccum applied for milking is maintained so that it wont hurt cow. Even if hand milking is done in proper way it wont hurt. read more