Show TREATMENT FOR LEAKY TEAT forty penny spike rounded off to point and applied while hot will prove effective many good cows are butchered because they milk so easily that the pressure in the udder during a big milk flow causes the teats to leak leaking teats can usually be identified by the concave depression at the milk opening hard have a convex surface around the orifice to stop a cows teat from leaking the best method I 1 have found Is to file a 10 penny spike round off the point heat the end cud hot enough to sear and press it gently into the milk orifice says a writer hold in place till the cow informs you that you have done enough it s better to repeat the operation than to do too much at the first trial the burn will nearly always cure readily Is 35 the result of the soothing influence of df the milk but it if it is slow in healing grease with salve when the sear scar forms around the milk ilk orifice it contracts the opening and prevents prevent the milk from leaking |