Homesteaders

[Beekissed]

Do u milk sheep? I don't think I could milk a sheep...

I've done it, briefly, and it was pretty easy. The teats are smaller than a goat, though can be much like the Nigerian goat's teats. The actual dairy breeds have nice big teats.

And even by machine....

 

[lazy gardener]

Ok, Ralph. I'm guessing that you also had the brown cows trained to give chocolate milk. And if you played some nice rock and roll music while they were letting down, you'd get a nice milk shake.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ok, Ralph. I'm guessing that you also had the brown cows trained to give chocolate milk. And if you played some nice rock and roll music while they were letting down, you'd get a nice milk shake.

We did..

We had special cows. If we wanted strawberry ice cream we fed the cows strawberries, Raspberry Ice Cream they ate raspberries, blue berries and so forth.

The hardest part was getting Maple Nut Ice cream, Some of the cows did not like climbing the maple trees for the maple nuts and some were like stupid cats once they got up there, they refused to come down.

Then we would have to climb the maple tree, throw a cow over our shoulder and carry it back down. That got old really fast,

 

[lazy gardener]

We did..

We had special cows. If we wanted strawberry ice cream we fed the cows strawberries, Raspberry Ice Cream they ate raspberries, blue berries and so forth.

The hardest part was getting Maple Nut Ice cream, Some of the cows did not like climbing the maple trees for the maple nuts and some were like stupid cats once they got up there, they refused to come down.

Then we would have to climb the maple tree, throw a cow over our shoulder and carry it back down. That got old really fast,

I don't think I'd like Maple nut ice cream after all that work. My Dad's favorite ice cream is grape nut. Wanna take a run at that one???

 

[duluthralphie]

I don't think I'd like Maple nut ice cream after all that work. My Dad's favorite ice cream is grape nut. Wanna take a run at that one???

How in the world do you get a cow to climb a grape vine? Must be Dexters or some other small cow.

 

[lazy gardener]

You just gotta realize that up heah in Maine, if the cows 'r bigguh, the grape vines 'r bigguh also. You wouldn't be fuhgettin' Babe, the blue ox of Paul Bunyan fame. Them cows don't need to be doin' no climin' to get them grapes.

 

[duluthralphie]

You just gotta realize that up heah in Maine, if the cows 'r bigguh, the grape vines 'r bigguh also. You wouldn't be fuhgettin' Babe, the blue ox of Paul Bunyan fame. Them cows don't need to be doin' no climin' to get them grapes.

NO NO NO!!


Do not even think about trying to take Credit for Paul Bunyan and Babe. they are pure breed Minnesotan through and through. Born and raised here in the Northland.

 

[lazy gardener]

Our Paul Bunyan is 31 feet high and weighs 3,700 pounds, not including his double-sided ax and peavey.

 

[KlopKlop]

Ralphie is right. The only reason Paul and babe would be in Maine is because he was out for a jog

 

[rancher hicks]

Okay, are folks not taking their meds? Cows climbing trees, giving flavored milk? Seems to me there are more than Grapes that are nuts.