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Stop milking her. Put her in a pen where she won't do much harm to her udder (like bruising it in some way), and she will decrease her milk flow to nothing after a few weeks. Also consider putting her on lower quality feed and/or pasture to help speed up the drying up process.

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So they can they can give milk to their calf and so they can give birth.

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