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How to Milk a Cow

By Cris Daining 5 Comments

How to Milk a Cow

How to Milk a Cow Want to know how to milk a cow? Here’s a quick video of how we milk our family dairy cow including: how we clean her, the milking stanchion we use, and how we filter the milk. We’ve had experience milking our previous cows, but this is only a few day’s into

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Farm, Farming & Gardening, Videos Tagged With: Dairy Cow, Family Cow, milking a cow, video

The New Family Cow: Welcoming Cecelia

By Shaye Elliott 23 Comments

The New Family Cow: Welcoming Cecelia

Once upon a time there was a farm girl. She loved cows. Their smell. Their fuzzy necks. Their wet, black noses. Their ability to provide her family with gallons and gallons of delicious, raw milk. And the love story goes on and on. Insert the family cow.  By the way, that farm girl is me.

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Farm, Farming & Gardening Tagged With: Cow, Dairy Cow, Family Cow, Farm, Farm animals, Home dairy

I love you, Sal.

By Shaye Elliott 48 Comments

I love you, Sal.

You’d think as a writer that I would relish this opportunity to utilize my fingertips and words to talk about my emotions… my thoughts… my sadness. But truth be told, I’m forcing myself to type these words.  The biggest part of me wants to run to the hills, dig myself a cozy hole in the

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Farm, Farming & Gardening Tagged With: Animal husbandry, Dairy Cow, Family Cow, Farm, Farm animals, Farm Life, Milk Cow

How To Tell When A Cow Will Calve (Or Not)

By Shaye Elliott 16 Comments

How To Tell When A Cow Will Calve (Or Not)

Alright. I know you want to throw tomatoes at me. Here I had you all worked up for Sally’s calf to come, you were there with me on Facebook (virtually) at the edge of your seat, only to check back and find no calf came. No status update with a zillion of these (!!!!!!!!!). No

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Farm, Farming & Gardening Tagged With: Animals, Cow, Dairy Cow, Family Cow, Farm animals, Life on the farm, Pets, Raw Milk

Preparing for Calving

By Shaye Elliott 8 Comments

Preparing for Calving

Before we talk about Preparing for Calving, I’ve got to get this song out of my head: (Sung to the tune of ‘Smelly Cat’) Sally Belle, Sally Belle When will that baby come? Sally Belle, Sally Belle It’s not too soooooon. Sorry. I’m trying to think of anything that I can to keep my mind

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Farm, Farming & Gardening Tagged With: Animals, Birth, Cow, Dairy Cow, Family Cow, Farm Life, Life on the farm, Milk Cow

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