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DH's preference is for her to get a taste of her momma and go from there. He was milking the cow into the calf's mouth/face each day. She was not early, she's one of our bigger calves, about 80 lbs, not difficulty in birth. But... *drumroll please* Last night she figured out where the good...

We have an angus calf that was born 4 days ago now... She was born around 1pm on Saturday March 12. By 8pm she was in the house for a warm-up and bottle of colostrx. Sunday she was back in for a shot of Vetramycin and another dose of colostrx. She WONT suckle! We can put our finger in her...

I made butter last night, from cream I collected over the last week from my milking. Go me!

Oh I am not pro-pasturization by any means, but I am experimenting with different ways to get more cream. I only pasturized 2qt last night. It seems that the cream takes 2-3 days to seperate from the raw milk which chaps a bit because I am into instant gratification.... I seem to remember the...

She's the nicest lil cow! Last night was only our second round, and she acted like she knew the drill. Walked into the headgate, waited for her grain, actually let me get ALL the milk out last night (1.5qt) I forgot to pasturize...I read that I can get more cream off it the next morning if I...

Is there a difference in the milk of an Angus? DH wont have dairy cows, and we sold off several calves on Saturday, so yesterday I brought the nice cow into the barn, talked nice to her, washed her udder up, and milked about 1/2 out of her. Amounted to 3pt. She decided she was done after...

Is it true that to make butter from goats' milk one has to have an actual butter churn instead of just using a mixer?

She isnt mine, we got milk from someone, and I took the jar out last night for my kids' supper and when I tipped the jar to shake it up I noticed the blood all over the bottom of the jar. They just went from 2x milking to 1x per day....could that be it?

Um, what does it mean when there is blood on the bottom of the jar after a couple of days in the fridge? Like, the whole bottom of the jar has a thin layer.... not drinkable, correct?

They have never drank it warm and we have had them over a year. Its the exact match to their water bucket, same color, size, shape, brand...but Momma duck is using theirs and I am not going to risk upsetting her and losing those ducklings because Daisy and Daphne are drama queens! I thought...

So, we have our 2 pygmy ladies. They have been pestering momma duck who is trying to get thru the last few days of incubation, so we decided to remove the goats from "goat jail" (they were in lockdown for "trimming" my garden) and have staked them out under some box elders and cottonwoods that...

Lucky for us its my kids' best freinds' parents who own the buck. The owner is also my DH's buddy from work. We can keep him at our house till Christmas if we want. I hope by November to have baby goats tho so he really wouldnt be needed around at Christmas :)

We onlt have the one goat pen, the goats are normally free range but they #1 were naughty and ate my raspberry canes, and #2 need to be bred. Since I only have 2 does and want them both bred I dont need to seperate anyone. Will watch for signs of having been bred. I am guessing the reson...

She might not be, she wasnt due quite yet, but he is ignoring Daphne and only chasing Daisy around so thats why I figured something must be up (no pun intended)

I dont like the name rhyming with Osama..... lol And I dont care how rare it is, if its after my kids I am going to shoot it and if they tell me that is wrong I will ask how much they were going to pay me to "compensate for the loss" of my children!