30 May 2014

Another day ...

... another three litres of milk.


And a litre of cream. (that's about 2-3 days worth of cream)


For anyone tracking Dexter milk production stats: we are 3 weeks into lactation, share milking with no separation of cow and calf as yet. Sasha gets about 4 lbs of mixed alfalfa cubes/pellets/beet pulp in the bowl as bribe/supplement during milking - no grain (ever), and obviously all the grass she can eat. I reliably get 3-4 litres of milk each day still: I had two marginally lower days, it was raining and yukky and I milked a little earlier than I normally do, which may have been the explanation, but even a lower day was a minimum 2 litres. The calf has realized he can nurse off all four quarters (though he usually leaves the left front, for which I do not blame him, that one is so huge I can't get my hand all the way around until she's nearly milked right out), so I expect I'll be separating them at least for a few hours in the afternoon in a week or so. I prefer to milk in the early evening, as I am most emphatically NOT a morning person, so separating them overnight is not on my list of things to do. 

2 comments:

  1. I'm laughing about the NO morning person - doubt the cow would realize NO ONE can speak to you if the hood is still up on your hoodie!! Better plan to be an evening milker!

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    1. Yep! I'm worse now than as a teenager ... Evening milking it is! :)

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