The other night in the middle of milking I had a thought about my present state of employment. I shared that thought on my facebook page and I guess people liked it. Because it was a mid milking ...
Livestock
Why are dairy cows skinny?
Random person to me- Why are dairy cows skinny? Me- Because the are basically Olympic athletes. I have often had people ask me why my cows are so skinny. Online I have seen people make ...
How do farmers deal with manure? We get our poop in a group!
So our dairy cows eat about 120 pounds of feed every day. What goes up must come down and what goes in must come out. Manure that is, fertilizer, brown gold, soil elixir. Whatever you want to call ...
Dear Mr. Gosling.
Dear Mr Gosling, Yesterday when I woke up early in the morning before milking cows, I was alerted to your letter, which I took to be on behalf of PETA, to the National Milk Producers Federation ...
Twin calves on the dairy farm.
This last Saturday we had a super special delivery! The cow stork brought us a set of twin heifer calves. Thanks to the technology of Ultrasound and our veterinarian we knew ahead of time that this ...
Norma gets Artificially Inseminated.
So yesterday, exactly 21 days after Norma was in heat, which I wrote this post about finding Norma a bullfriend, Norma was again in heat. This means that her first breeding wasn't successful and we ...