Mike had just received the newest hucow drone. Her name had been Jane, although he only knew her as drone #9739764, not that he'd remembered her number. He was about to put her in her pen when a man he didn't know approached him.
"Hey, are you Mike?" the man asked. "My name's Dave. I'm new here and I think you are supposed to show me around?"
Mike smiled. "That's right! The supervisor told me you'd start today. Do you have any experience working with hucows?"
"No, none at all."
"No problem. It's honestly not that difficult, the machines do most of the work and we just have to keep an eye on them. One of the few things we have to do ourselves is putting the new cows in place. I was just about to do that, so you've got great timing! I can show you how it's done with this one."
Mike pointed at the drone standing to the side, awaiting orders. Her breasts were noticeably larger than that of an average woman or female drone.
"Great!" Dave said "So I'm guessing you're putting her into this thing?"
He pointed at the machine next to them, the only empty one in this row. There were about 30 other machines in the room, all of them occupied by a drone.
The machine looked a bit like the seat of a motorcycle but long enough to lay the whole upper body down. There was a large gap to either side in the middle which were clearly meant to fit the breasts of the hucow, as well as a hole for the face. At the side were attachments to hold the arms end legs.
"Exactly." said Mike. "Drone, step over here and kneel down, with your knees on the red X's."
The drone did as she was told and Mike explained to Dave "These hucow drones have almost no training in interpreting orders so the markers help them to find their position more easily. You can also just grab them and guide them in place, that's often easiest for us."
He put his hands on the drone's back and gently pushed down.
"Lay down." The drone did as she was told but before she was fully laying down Mike bend over and pulled her breasts one either side of the bench.
"Now we have to secure the arms and legs."
The legs were already in the correct position and Mike fastened two strips over each leg. Then he adjusted the arms so the upper part was parallel with the body and the lower part hung straight down and secured them to the side of the bench.
"So they stay away from the breasts and don't get in the way of the suction cups, which I'll put on now." he told Dave.
The suction cups were set in the ground on a platform which Mike lifted up to the hucow's breasts.
Mike pulled up a tablet, tapped something on it and the cups started sucking.
"This is just a test cycle." he told Dave. "This one won't produce for a few more days since she just got the hormone adjustment. And we'll probably have to dump the first few loads until they meet quality standards. The system does that automatically. Every time the cow gets milked the first few milliliter get tested and depending on that the whole load can get dumped. If that happens to often the cow gets marked and we have to investigate.
That doesn't happen very often, mostly just for new cows. Then we just have to adjust the nutrients or hormones. The system makes a suggestion on how to adjust and I pretty much always just have to give to the go-ahead on the changes."
The pump stopped trying to suck the not yet existing milk and the platform dropped down again.
"It will try pumping again in 6 hours. I set it up so we'll get an alert if nothing happens in 3 days. Usually they take only one or two days to start giving milk."
He pulled what looked like a short but thick dildo with a tube at the end from the wall of the stall.