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When they are weaned from their calves, the udder still produces milk for a few days, and the pressure is quite painful. But eventually the cow's body tells it to stop producing milk because the pressure is not being released. As she dries up, the milk is reabsorbed back into the cow's system, and her udder becomes less swollen with milk as the weeks go by. The drying up process usually takes 2 to 3 weeks.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoBy "dry" we don't mean literally dry like dehydrated, but by the fact that she's no longer producing milk. A cow that is dry or not producing milk will have an udder that is not swollen with milk, or appears to be lax or quite wrinkled and teats are small, or at least not swollen with milk either. This lax or wrinkled appearance is far more apparent in dairy cows that are dry, but a little less than in beef cows.
A dry beef cow is beef cow that does not have a calf on her. A dry dairy cow is a cow that is not being milked regularly (twice a day).
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