The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[holm25]

Love the ideas!!

 

[speckledhen]

Love the ideas!!

Thanks, Isaiah! How're the cows? You might enjoy this youtube from one of my favorite ladies there:

 

[chickenflicker]

Boy, that looks like a great setup. Sure would help make it easy to take care of everything . Keep us up on the development .

 

[drumstick diva]

good video

 

[speckledhen]

Boy, that looks like a great setup. Sure would help make it easy to take care of everything . Keep us up on the development .

I sure will. The delivery of the granite sand base may be delayed, woke to rain today. That would make it turn solid so we'll see what happens by afternoon.

good video

Isn't it, though? I believe she used to sing backup for Ronnie Milsap. Great voice!

 

[1muttsfan]

Love the video! Few people now know how to milk a cow by hand, or how much work it is.

Think about this - 30 years ago a cow that gave 40# (about 4 1/2 gallons) of milk a day was an excellent milker. Our modern commercially bred milk cows (mostly Holsteins) give up to 100# (over 11 gallons!) of milk daily. Most home-kept, hand-milked cows will not produce that much, just think of how much work it would be to milk them! This huge gain in milk production was made primarily by improving the genetics of the cows. Once artificial insemination became widely available all farmers had access to bulls whose bloodlines vastly improved mild production. While BST hormone treatment can also increase milk production, many farmers do not use it and still have very productive herds. Antibiotics, antiinflammatories, and other medications are banned from use in cows that produce human food, and every batch of milk picked up from a farm is sampled for illegal substances and signs of infection.

Since unhappy cows do not milk as well or produce as much milk as happy cows, cow comfort is important to farmers, and cow welfare is constantly monitored on the farms. Wish we could get people as concerned about the chickens that produce our eggs.

 

[speckledhen]

Love the video! Few people now know how to milk a cow by hand, or how much work it is.

Think about this - 30 years ago a cow that gave 40# (about 4 1/2 gallons) of milk a day was an excellent milker. Our modern commercially bred milk cows (mostly Holsteins) give up to 100# (over 11 gallons!) of milk daily. Most home-kept, hand-milked cows will not produce that much, just think of how much work it would be to milk them! This huge gain in milk production was made primarily by improving the genetics of the cows. Once artificial insemination became widely available all farmers had access to bulls whose bloodlines vastly improved mild production. While BST hormone treatment can also increase milk production, many farmers do not use it and still have very productive herds. Antibiotics, antiinflammatories, and other medications are banned from use in cows that produce human food, and every batch of milk picked up from a farm is sampled for illegal substances and signs of infection.

Since unhappy cows do not milk as well or produce as much milk as happy cows, cow comfort is important to farmers, and cow welfare is constantly monitored on the farms. Wish we could get people as concerned about the chickens that produce our eggs.

I so agree. That cow she has is so happy. She has a video of giving her a fresh roll of hay and she was throwing herself into it and running back to the fence for petting, then diving into the hay again. When DH saw it, he said he didn't think he could grow out a calf and slaughter it. Tell me something I don't know, LOL. He makes pets of everything. Even our guineas were hand tamed and liked petting.

ETA: Rain quit, sun's out, yea! DH cut down the plum tree and raked the area so we're ready for the granite sand and will tarp it and tell Jason it's here.

 

[robhuncor]

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Loved the video! That girl is so cute! And thanks 1muttsfan for the interesting info.

 

[robhuncor]

And good luck Cyn on starting the process for the new building - so exciting!

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks! Follow the coop build here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-coop-need-some-input-please/40#post_15932774