Mandy's milk veinAnswer: blood of course.
We like to see thick, twisted, gnarly milk veins....they have been associated, at least in our minds, with good production.
Here is a page of dairy quizzes for kids. Here are lots more if you like 'em. Our three all participated in dairy quiz bowl and did well at the regional level. Sometimes Liz even went to state (you have to be in the top ten in the region to go to state). Becky was once put on a team made up of leftover kids from several counties. She was a junior, but the team competed at the senior level. (She had been bumped off our junior team because the captain thought she wasn't good enough.) She came in somewhere along about 4th in the region...fourth senior that is. Finished ahead of our entire senior team...not to mention kinda doing good for a junior that couldn't make the team. We were pretty proud of her!
I ended up coaching our novice team for a number of years and it was an incredible lot of fun. It was absolutely a thrill to start with kids who didn't know the answer to the title question at the beginning and end up with them answering hundreds of much harder ones. They worked so hard studying those pages of questions and learning about cows. One girl, who incidentally was born about ten minutes before Alan at the very same birthing center, won first in the region and she didn't even have any cows, being a horse person.
Great pic and I love the Hoard quizzes.
ReplyDeleteGood, smart kids you have there Threecollie.
ReplyDeleteDoes the vein always look like that or is it a signal that she's ready to milk?
It's a farm version of the academic team I coach!!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to take that quiz right now!
ReplyDeleteThe online school that I go to has Quiz Bowl, but haven't seen the farm version yet....
Fred,horse quiz bowl was what we were in with our kids. Be home tomrrow god willing and if FAY doesn't get me.
ReplyDeleteLove ya
Mappy
Nita, thanks, aren't they hard!?!!? I would have to look up most of the answers
ReplyDeleteDani, thanks, it always looks the same in that respect, but it is usually much smaller on a heifer and becomes more pronounced on an older cow.
FC, much the same yes, just a different topic. It actually prepares the kids well for college topics if they go into ag and have progressed to the senior level. The senior kids know a LOT more than I do about dairying
Aaussie O, I'll bet you will do great at it. Your family is very knowledgeable.
Matt, we did horse bowl a couple of years too, but we just couldn't keep up with the practices for both. Safe trip home, love you!