Just brought my pregnant Jersey back from the bull. Now I need to set up my place to make the milking easy. I want to milk once a day and found this post very useful. My question is this. Do you need to bring the calf in with the cow when you milk? If so, how do you arrange that in the barn? I have a very nice 6 stall horse barn that I want to use for milking. The stalls are 12x12 and the walls between them are heavy boards stacked into a track. Some boards could be removed to make a short wall or, I could probably put some spacers in to make a fence type wall that a calf could see through. I have never milked before and neither has my heifer so this could be interesting. Any ideas would be appreciated.
