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How to milk share with a calf.

By Shaye Elliott 17 Comments

How to milk share with a calf.

There are many things I didn’t know how to do as a farmer before the situation was upon me. Lambing, for example. Do you know how many lambings I’d played midwife to prior to owning a sheep that was lambing? Zero. Definitely learned that one on the fly. Same goes for our breeding Old Spots

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Filed Under: Farming & Gardening Tagged With: Animal, Animal husbandry, Animals, Cow, Dairy vow, Family Cow, Farm Life, Homestead, How-to, Milk sharing, milking

How To Move A Cow To Once A Day Milking

By Shaye Elliott 4 Comments

How To Move A Cow To Once A Day Milking

Once upon a time, there was a woman. This woman gave birth to three children in under four years.  Needless to say, this woman found every minute of sleep precious. Sleep was her happy place. Even more-so when winter rolled around, in all its frozen glory.  And thus, one morning, this woman sat down with her

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Farm, Farming & Gardening Tagged With: Animals, Cow, Family Cow, Farm, How-to, Life on the farm, Milk, milking, milking a cow

The Great Milk Debate Part #2

By Shaye Elliott 17 Comments

The Great Milk Debate Part #2

1. Why do you want a milk animal in the first place? DANELLE “Because milk of course! Just about every milk in the grocery store comes from animals raised in unnatural environments aka poop n’ stuff. On top of that, store bought milk is pasteurized aka heated until hot as lava. I wanted to provide milk

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow, Fellow Homestead-ians, Ponderings and Dreams, The Politics of Food Tagged With: cows, goats, milk debate, milking, raw mlk

Cow. Goat. Which would you rather milk?

By Shaye Elliott 22 Comments

Cow. Goat. Which would you rather milk?

We are discussing a very serious topic today on the homestead. And one I don’t take lightly. Eh, okay fine, so it’s not that serious. But none-the-less, it’s a very large and important decision. Financially, emotionally, and eh, workally. Yes, I do realize that workally is not a word. What I mean to say is “a decision

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Filed Under: Animals, Family Cow Tagged With: Cow, goat, Milk, milking

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