Longest cow-milking

The longest ever spent milking a cow was 7 months and 19 days, by Moldovan Artur Shmill. Interviewed after the 9^th week, Shmill explained,

“I cannot stop until I milk beer from this cow. It was a foolish bet, that I made with my cousin, but I refuse to give up.” 

Despite adapting the milking stool he sat on into a toilet, and handcuffing his hands to the cows udder to sleep, Shmill had to give up without success, when his right ring finger fell off, forcing him to go for medical attention.

Artur's cousin, Nicolae, transporting one of the752 deliveries of milk produced by Artur's epic milk. The horse, Prince Donkaevie, was eventually crippled by the excessive workload, but in order to save him from being rendered into glue and steak, the Shmill family adopted him in 2002. Photograph by sergejf.

©2012 James Mathurin