Showing posts with label family cow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family cow. Show all posts
15 April 2015

Getting ready!

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This swollen udder means a calf is coming! I've been waffling between sure that Sasha is pregnant and being terrified that I've just...
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17 November 2014

The Cow Buffet is now open for business

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Today The Boy and his friend helped me roll the bales from the driveway (where they were delivered yesterday afternoon) into the fee...
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15 July 2014

Whitewash

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The barn is dark inside. It has windows, and I usually have the door open, but still, it’s quite dingy in there. So today, after convertin...
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28 June 2014

Bad attitude + very little milk = ….

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A cow with a bad attitude + half the milk she usually gives = two lines on the milk test! This is the P4 Rapid Milk Progesterone Tes...
24 June 2014

Barter

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Today I went on a road trip to Rocky Mountain house, and this is wht I came home with! I left behind a cooler full of beef, which we had...
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23 June 2014

The First Cheese: Caerphilly

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I decided that one of the cheeses was ready for eating. It’s a Caerphilly, which is meant to be eaten fairly young, so I trimmed the rind an...
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01 June 2014

I need a bigger milk can.

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4.25 litres.  My milk can holds 2.  Clearly I was not sufficiently optimistic!
30 May 2014

Another day ...

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... another three litres of milk. And a litre of cream. (that's about 2-3 days worth of cream) For anyone tracking Dexter mi...
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28 May 2014

Half a pound of butter and a cheese cave

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Today I made just a half pound block of butter – I wanted to use up the cream I had, even though it wasn’t going to make a full block. I...
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27 May 2014

Dairy.

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We have milk. Oh, do we have milk. Sasha is giving me about 4 litres a day now – at two weeks into her lactation. Zoinks! And the calf i...
25 May 2014

Butter

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The cream was overflowing the fridge, so I decided it was time to make butter. I tried using the blender, as I’d read about online, but ...
18 May 2014

Milk

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Sasha and her baby Jerky are doing really well!  The calf was pretty wobbly for the first few days but he is happily running around the past...
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14 May 2014

Milk! Cream!

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Sasha's baby is doing really well ... Up and about and eating. We are getting 2-3 litres of milk daily, with plenty for the calf, so I...
09 May 2014

And we have a baby bull calf!

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The Reluctant Farmer told me this morning that Sasha seemed really uncomfortable, moving around a lot and she was bellowing a little. I th...
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08 May 2014

Calf Watch

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It’s nearly time! For those, like me, who scour the internet for clues about “when will she calve” and “signs of calving in a Dexter”, I’ll ...
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20 July 2013

New watering strategy for the stock

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The shape of the pastures and barnyard is an evolving thing, still. I would like it if we could just figure it out and stick with one good, ...
16 July 2012

Making Cheese

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I love cheese. We eat a ridiculous amount of cheese in this household, actually, and since we have a cow, it seems reasonable that I should ...
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13 July 2012

Dairy Day

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It was a dairy day at our house today. This morning, Sasha was in a nasty mood. Crabby, irritable, kicking – and worse, she managed to ste...
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10 July 2012

George says hi

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09 July 2012

A Day in the Life of George the Calf

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Mama and I slept in the barn last night. I think maybe we’re supposed to do this every night, but I dunno, I only got here yesterday morning...
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