It always starts with a silly joke. An offhand comment, ridiculous in nature, but borne out of concern. What I'm writing about today mostly concerns my sisters, and one in particular. Farm life can be eye opening. Being close to so many animals, from conception right through to death, and the many uses of farm animals brings to mind the similarities of all species, and the absurd delineation society creates between humans and animals, especially those animals we consider livestock.
As hinted earlier, we had cows, some dairy, some beef. We had all been involved in their care from a young age. Seeing bulls mount cows. Pink bull cocks unsheathed and dragging on the ground, covered in semen and vaginal fluid. Bulls mount steers. Cows mount cows. Steers mount... you get the picture, cows are horny and in my opinion are very bisexual. They smell/sniff/lick each others vulvas when they piss. A milking cow will sometimes let not just her own calf, but any cow suckle from her. Not always, but sometimes. And cows are not squeamish about which cow does this - their own calves, their sibling, their parents. This is not to say a herd of cows is a wild cow sex party. It's just things that happen, and they don't have the taboo hang ups that humans do. It's mind opening, and really destroys the silly rules human society has.
We milked some of our cows - mostly for our own use. Twice a day, early morning and evening. Of course we helped. Herding them into the dairy, getting them in the stalls, locking their heads into the trough for feeding. We always had more stalls than cows, 5 stalls in all. Wiping down their udders with a warm wet towel, squeezing each teat to make sure everything was okay. The running joke was the spare stall was open - we all had teats just like the cows. Especially mum and my sisters. But it wasn't until we were down to 2 milkers, 3 stalls free, that dad half joked 'okay you three girls, time to get in position', that my youngest sister, 18 at the time, replied 'okay dad, but I think mum has a head start on me and sis'. We all laughed, but she started stripping down, put her head into the lock and got down on all fours, ready like any cow. Dad made a comment about her udder size, she had very well developed breasts that hung nicely as she stood on all fours there. Good size for milking.