If milk is being delivered at 2.30am what on earth time are they milking the cows?

Birds used to peck the tops off milk to get to the cream. Now milk is homogenised the cream is no longer at the top so they don't do it!

No milkmen where I live.
We used to have it delivered when DC were young but the birds always got to it before us and I had to pour it away. If I had to go to shop for replacement then paying twice was a waste.

We have a small insulated container for the bottles. Keeps them cool. Love having it delivered as it saves me having to lug home the milk from the supermarket.

I would think it’s milk from yesterday afternoons milking.Our son in law has a dairy farm,they milk twice a day 4.30am and pm.??

Remember, it doesn’t go straight from the cow into the bottle. The milk is collected in a tank from the cow, where it is stored ready for processing. It is then pasteurised and bottled before distribution. The milkman may then spend several hours hours travelling round a wide area doing deliveries. It has a longer shelf life than you’d expect, and is highly unlikely to go off in two or three hours on the doorstep.

Ours usually arrives in the small hours, 2-3 am - I hear him sometimes when sleepless. It’s never off.

That’s why I stopped having a milk delivery, many years ago.
I was fed up with the milk having gone off before breakfast and/or the tops being pecked open by the birds.

Perhaps I’m not discerning enough, but the supermarket milk that now comes with my weekly delivery from Morrisons is always dated at least a week ahead and always tastes fine.

Our local milkman delivers in the middle of the night. He has a huge round. Think about it, we can’t all have milk delivered at 6-7a.m.

Our milkman (actually a woman) has always delivered at 3 am. We have oat milk, loo roll and bread delivered, sometimes other stuff (they're a little online shop really). As soon as I'm awake, usually 4-5 am, I'll retrieve it from the doorstep, before the foxes take it!

I'm wondering what on earth time are they milking the cows these days?
Mary They're New Zealand cows, 11 hours ahead so already milked and air-freighted to your doorstep.
Haven't you noticed all that extra luscious cream?
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I have heard it being delivered at 11:30pm more than once recently.
It must have “gone off” by the morning on the recent very hot nights, which is probably why it is now early morning instead.

I believe they are milked twice a day, so it was probably yesterday!
Mine hasn't been delivered yet - I was up anyway so went out in my dressing gown to fetch it in. Not there!