Water spray from low pressure nozzles is aimed at teat or hand only. The hand does all the cleaning and stimulating with particular attention paid to the cleaning of the teat end. Milk is stripped from each teat during the wash phase. Individual paper towels or cloth towels are used to dry each teat and teat end. A milking unit is attached immediately after washing and drying the teats of each early lactation cow.
Machine is removed manually or by a detaching unit after the vacuum is shut off.
Teats are dipped or sprayed immediately following machine removal with an effective germicidal product. Fresh cows can be milked next to last with milking units just for fresh cows. Treated cows would be milked last or in a separate area. However, many parlor milked herds in the U.S. are 40 to 200 cows. Herds are divided in these smaller herds on production with little or no regard for mastitis status or age.