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# Log milk and read your Milk records

Log each milking on the **Milking** page, one animal at a time. Every amount you save builds her daily totals, chart and month sheet on her **Milk** view in **Records**.

## Who can have milk records

The **Milk** view shows for female goats, cattle, sheep, water buffalo, yaks, camels, donkeys, horses and reindeer. Any other female mammal gets it once milk is recorded for her. Visitors see it only when milk records are shared.

To open the **Milking** page, choose **Create**, then **Log milking**. On a computer you can also choose **Milking** under **Shortcuts** in the left menu. Both show up once you have a female of milking age from a dairy breed or species, or after her first milking is logged.

## Log a milking

1. Check the **Date**, **Session** and **Unit** at the top. Creatures picks today and the session closest to the current time, such as **AM** or **PM**.
2. Find the animal in the list. If she is not there yet, pick her under **Add an animal**. She stays on the list after her first save.
3. Type the **Amount**. Tick a tag if it fits: **Kicked / spilled**, **Milked late**, **Fed to kids** (or calves or lambs) or **Discarded**.
4. If you did not milk her, set **Status** to a reason, such as **Not milked: Young on**, **Not milked: Unwell** or **Not milked: Drying off**. Use **Note** to add a comment.
5. Choose **Save**. Pressing Enter also saves and moves you to the next animal.

![Milking page on a phone with Date, Session PM and Unit lb, and a doe on a milk hold with Discard suggested above her Amount, tags, Status and Save](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/231/6c1/7c5/4b7c7.png?width=716)

The bar at the bottom counts your progress, such as **1 of 2 saved**, and adds up the **Session total**. After a save, **Details** lets you change the entry or delete it. If your phone loses signal, what you typed stays on the phone. Choose **Retry unsaved** when you are back online.

## Milk during a milk hold

After you record a treatment with a milk withdrawal time, her row reads **Milk hold until** the clear date and names the medicine. It also suggests **Discard**.

Tick **Discarded** when you dump that milk. The amount still counts in her totals, marked **Discarded**, so your log matches what she gave. To record withdrawal times, see [Vaccinations, treatments and vet visits](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/health-and-medical-records-1nh5rnc/).

## Read her Milk view

Open the animal's profile, choose **Records**, then **Milk**. The line under **Milk** shows her lactation, when she freshened and her day in milk. Freshened means she gave birth and came into milk. **Log milk** adds one milking for her.

The boxes sum up the month: **Recorded milk**, **Average per milking day**, **Best day** and **Days milked**. The **Daily recorded milk** chart adds a **7-day average** line. Use the arrows to change months. **Display unit** changes only how amounts look.

![Milk view with the lactation line, Log milk and report buttons, and this month's recorded milk, average per milking day, best day, days milked and daily chart](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/447/26e/6b3/1abc6.png?width=1248)

Below is the month sheet. Each row is a day, with a column for each session, then **Total** and **Notes**.

- Tap a cell to type an amount, then press Enter to save.
- Tap the three-dot button in a cell for **Milking details**. There you can add tags, a note or the time, or choose **Delete entry**.
- Hold days are shaded and show **Milk hold until**. A **Discard** button opens the details with **Discard** ticked. Choose **Save milking** to confirm.

![Month milk sheet with AM and PM amounts and daily totals, three days shaded for a milk hold with Discarded milkings and a suggested Discard](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/46e/a2b/596/6d45a.png?width=1216)

**Lactations** lists each lactation with its recorded milk, average and peak day.

## Start or end a lactation

A birth record starts a new lactation. Under the sheet, **Freshened** and **Dried off** open a breeding record. Save it to mark when she came into milk or was dried off.

## Hide Milking if you do not milk

Don't milk? Before you log any milk, open the **Milking** page and choose **Not milking? Hide Milking from Shortcuts**. To bring it back, choose **Show it again** on that page. An animal's **Milk** view also offers **Show Milking in Shortcuts** until she has milk logged.

### Related information

- [Milk reports, test-day results and share links](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/milk-reports-test-day-results-and-share-links-7kip8h/)
- [Vaccinations, treatments and vet visits](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/health-and-medical-records-1nh5rnc/)
- [The animal records tab](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/the-animal-records-tab-leeb9e/)