If Heracles had used fire instead of water to clean out the Augean Stables…
It looks like the journey from the stable to the milking machine and back takes longer than the milking itself! Well, at least the cows get to see a bit of the world.
I wonder why people don’t milk pigs. They have even more teats.
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Yes. Packing density approximately .74.
I believe there was an explosion of methane from a very large manure processing system. I don’t know how many were killed by the explosion and how many burned to death.
My daughter and I have an ongoing contest/hunt for sentences that have never before been said in the English language. I think this may be a new entry.
In that case, assume a rhombic dodecahedral cow.
Yeah, your number makes more sense.
If there are 500 milking stations in the parlor, and each cow is in a station for ten minutes being prepped and milked, then there would be 6 cows milked in each station every hour, or 3000 per hour. The entire herd of 18,000 would be milked in six hours. If the work starts at 5:00 am, the morning milking is done at 11:00 am. Six hours later, the evening rotation begins at 5:00 pm and is completed at 11:00 pm.
As an aside, I just read that the average dairy cow produces around six gallons of milk each day. So this farm could have been producing over 100,000 gallons of milk every day.
That is what they want you to believe, but the methane really was coming directly from the cows, it’s what cows do: they farted and belched themselves to death, all it needed was a spark. Railer13’s link has a lot of impressive pictures of those 18,000 farts and 18,000 belches exploding in unison. Don’t try this at home!
Note in case you’re not aware that the milking process can be automated. The cows learn to move to stalls that contain machinery to clean their udders, apply the milking cups and extract the milk. The cow can chose when it wants to get milked. My guess is in a facility of this size, people aren’t milking the cows by hand.
To Dewey’s point, here’s a video from 2021 showing a NY dairy with a then-new automated milking system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL3ryjLu6wI
The Dope is a very rich source of these kinds of things. In fact here is one more from just below your post … 
That’s what was done with the exotic animals that were released in that bizarre story from Ohio that happened about 10 years ago. That would work for 100 animals, but 18,000? That’s a landfill in itself, and I doubt that a rendering plant would want most of them.
Were all the 18,000 cattle female?
ETA: nevermind. I see that it’s a dairy farm.
Good thing it wasn’t the dog…
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You don’t mean … “I burning your dog!”
Which will only be meaningful to Dopers of a certain (large) seniority.
If you thought 18,000 cows was a large farm…
This massive farm dairy farm is located in Heilongjiang, China. Mudanjiang City Mega Farm has over 100,000 dairy cows and covers an impressive 22.5 million acres. If that doesn’t impress you, Mudanjiang City Mega Farm produces about 800 million liters (about 200 million gallons) of dairy every year.
Indeed, the use of Rotary milkers greatly increases automation and reduces land requirements. Cows come up by themselves, enter the rotary, a robot applied the milkers to each of the four teats, the milk flow rate and quality is automatically monitored during the milking and when then flow rate stops the cow is deposition during the next rotation.
it is very impressive.
Glassy-winged sharpshooters rapidly fire their pee out of butt catapults.
Hold all callers, we have another winner…