7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[Pensmaster]

Me!

Yes you are. Good morning Motorcyclechick

 

[LocalYokel]

Good morning Yokel.

My daughter got me a headlamp for Christmas two years ago. Hangs by the barn door great for chores in dark mornings. This year she got me a steel for sharpening knives. Great for butchering time.

Do you sell all that milk? Don't know if I caught what you did with it.

I drink it
And make butter
They are not my cows tho
I work/help an old farmer
Raw milk fetches $10 a gallon here
Cleanliness is extremely important
Its nasty how they treat the cows that produce store bought milk
They don't wash nothing but the teats.
Disgusting
They don't give a crap because they are going to boil it anyways.

 

[Pensmaster]

I drink it
And make butter
They are not my cows tho
I work/help an old farmer
Raw milk fetches $10 a gallon here
Cleanliness is extremely important
Its nasty how they treat the cows that produce store bought milk
They don't wash nothing but the teats.
Disgusting
They don't give a crap because they are going to boil it anyways.

Well now that you mention it you are 100% correct on that. My two week stink working a dairy taught me that. Cows are brought in from what I would describe as a sewer pit, teats are washed with a hose, machine applied cows milked and released back to pit and next set brought in. Rubber boots were not high enough to keep me out of crap and one area that I did not know about was at least five feet deep in crap. I only knew that because one of the workers signed to me that if I went in there I'd literally be up to my neck in crap. I don't speak Spanish and he didn't speak English but I will forever be grateful for that signing that day. Why I drink milk now is beyond me. I don't drink nearly as much as I used to that's for sure.
Now this was 30 years ago so hopefully it's better now

 

[LocalYokel]

Well now that you mention it you are 100% correct on that. My two week stink working a dairy taught me that. Cows are brought in from what I would describe as a sewer pit, teats are washed with a hose, machine applied cows milked and released back to pit and next set brought in. Rubber boots were not high enough to keep me out of crap and one area that I did not know about was at least five feet deep in crap. I only knew that because one of the workers signed to me that if I went in there I'd literally be up to my neck in crap. I don't speak Spanish and he didn't speak English but I will forever be grateful for that signing that day. Why I drink milk now is beyond me. I don't drink nearly as much as I used to that's for sure.
Now this was 30 years ago so hopefully it's better now

Not much better

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Me!

how u won

 

[rossfam06]

how u won

Have patients little one. No need to keep asking. He will post when he is ready and tag who needs to be tagged. Don't worry.....right now.

 

[Pensmaster]

Not much better

Really sad because I only told you the better parts.

 

[Lozuufy]

Good morning everyone! Rooster was crowing allot this morning, I love the sound of a big rooster crowing!

 

[Lozuufy]

Body of my roo would give a 5 gallon bucket a run for its money. So good on the rethink. I agree the color would be good. Will be watching for the pictures. How's Mouse and the pigeon

Yeah my roo is pretty much the size of a turkey. Mouse is doing well but is now lonely without his family and baby pigeon is doing good too. Now I need to figure out a name, maybe Ratty

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Wow! That would be AWESOME!

I drink it
And make butter
They are not my cows tho
I work/help an old farmer
Raw milk fetches $10 a gallon here
Cleanliness is extremely important
Its nasty how they treat the cows that produce store bought milk
They don't wash nothing but the teats.
Disgusting
They don't give a crap because they are going to boil it anyways.

We love butter from our cows, it is bright yellow instead of white-ish. And our milk tastes SO MUCH better than store milk. We used to buy raw milk from local farms (also for $10 a gallon) but we drink so much of it that we decided to get cows (got them 2 years ago) and it can be lots of work carrying water buckets in the winter but it's worth it.



Remy out milking cow last winter when we got lots of snow.

 

[LocalYokel]

Really sad because I only told you the better parts.

I know