As dairy does are milked daily, they are generally kept close to the milking shed. Milk should be freshly milked from a cow. The cows are milked twice a day. Most farmers milked a few cows, usually by hand, and separated milk. Cows are milked as the platform rotates. Each lactating cow will visit the parlor at least twice a day to be milked. Angus cows are also extremely functional females excelling in fertility and ability to be milked. Following each cow being milked, the bucket would be dumped into a holding tank. The cluster will run until the cow is fully milked and then drop off. A few donkeys are milked or raised for meat. This was the first time a hippopotamus had been milked and the milk analyzed. Young stock, heifers, would have to be trained to remain still to be milked. Then for the next six weeks, the ewes were milked daily. The prophet Abraham is said to have milked his sheep on the citadel hill. In the summer, mares are milked six times a day, once every two hours.