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Tag Archives: milk
It’s not mastitis, it’s butter!
I’ll break my month-long silence with a post about milk. We have it in incredible abundance these days; and we’ve not even been giving Gerty any grain! She gets a little bit of lespedeza hay at milking time, and then … Continue reading
Pure Milk
Taken with my iPhone, so not the best quality, but still…
Frigid milking frustration
The good part first. Gerty is giving us a really nice yield of milk, and I think it might improve a bit more over the next week or so as she settles back into life at The Ozark House (and, … Continue reading
Milking twice a day, OR, I got my cow back, but I’m feeling kinda lazy
Gerty’s back. She’s been gone since the week of Thanksgiving, so it was a sweet reunion. She was at the farm of some very generous friends who let her be courted by their bull — a very well-bred, pricey bull, … Continue reading
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Milking rhythm
When I begin doing something and my unwieldy inexperience leaves me frustrated, I always imagine how it will be when I have someday mastered that thing. It’s how I felt when I first began taking piano lessons at age 7. … Continue reading
Milking the Cow: Days 4 and beyond, and notes
Oh my, these last few days have been busy! It got to a point that I literally had no time to fix the problems I’d discovered with the milking stall, but because I hadn’t fixed them, milking was taking more … Continue reading
The baby calf is here!!!
It is indeed a time of new life on the farm. Sometime during the night, our sweet Gertie had her first-ever calf. This beautiful little baby calf has been long-awaited on our farm! We bought Gertrude as a four-month old … Continue reading
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