19 July 2025, in Finland
Pennsylvania is a giant dairy farming state, ranked eighth within the U.S. in dairy manufacturing, but for all of the cows I’ve seen grazing Pennsylvania fields I’d by no means seen one carrying an udder assist bra till I visited Finland eight years in the past. Clearly this cow has a really giant udder so she advantages in a number of methods.
In 1963 Dutch veterinarian, Evert J.S. Bron, invented a “cow bra” for animals with giant udders designed to …
- stop harm or additional elongation of the suspensory ligaments in giant udders
- stop mastitis (irritation of the udder)
- stop the cow from stepping on its teats when it stands up and/or dragging them on the bottom as a result of they hold so low.
Siberian and Nordic dairy farmers generally cowl cow udders in winter to maintain them heat so it wasn’t a stretch for a Finnish dairy farmer to undertake the assist web. It’s even been adopted at a farm in Brazil after the Brazilian supervisor visited Iceland. See Dairy World: Distinctive udder assist methodology within the highlight.
Help can also be out there within the U.S.
p.s. The breed of cow pictured at prime is the Swedish red-and-white.
