Our dairy cow is rapidly drying up and our next one won't be producing milk until the end of the year.

We may actually have to buy milk soon.

I am not looking forward to that.

Maybe we should be consuming less than a litre each per day.

How much milk do y'all drink?

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How much milk does it produce?

2L daily. Down from 5L, 6 weeks ago.

Wild. Never knew they produced that much.

In full production, dairy cows produce about 20-30L per day.

I drink probably 1/2 litre a day, mostly with coffee.. although am trying to cut back on coffee.

Our family drinks less than a liter per day, but we make butter, yogurt and mozzarella, so we're still using about 6 liters per day.

Awesome. Love home churned butter on home baked sourdough.

None. Neither of my kids have drank milk since they were about 4. I stopped in my 20s.

Lots of cheese, butter, and heavy cream in all we eat, though

Do you not like the taste and mouth feel of milk?

In my case, it was more realizing milk - or ice cream - tended to upset my stomach. Kids were completely just on their own.

I used to love a tall glass of whole milk with dinner