Manual foremilk stripping is beneficial to dairies as it helps in the visual identification of cows with clinical mastitis, removing the foremilk, which contains the highest bacterial count, stimulating oxytocin release and milk ejection, and reduce teat damage as cows exposed to manual forestripping showed lower odds (0.3) of teat tissue changes and higher milk ejection capacity in comparison to controls [31]. The gene discussed is OXT; the disease is mastitis.