Cows give milk about 10 months of the year. Milking and Measures Cows are milked by machine. It takes 3-5 minutes to milk a cow with a milking machine. Cows must be milked two times a day, every day that they are producing milk. Some cows are milked three times a day as a management tool to produce more milk per cow.
Milk is measured in pounds.
There are about eight pounds of milk to a gallon. A heard of seventy-five cows will produce about 10,000 pounds of milk in two days. That is equal to 20,000 eight ounce glasses of milk. Feeding A cow can eat almost 100 pounds of food in a day. She can also drink a bathtub-full of water in a day.