(With apologies to dial up folks.) The first video is of Rebecca using the very latest thing in ultra modern, high tech milking techniques. *Note the strategic product placement. Fight Bac is our teat dip of choice, simply the best we have ever used and well worth the price and the mild hassle of getting it sent to us (and no, they didn't pay me to say that). Sorry about it being so dark and the mud on old Beausoleil. She chose a rather muddy location for her lying in. She is a dear old thing just the same. Even Beck likes her and she is not the world's biggest cow fan.
Modern milking technique
The second is our house cat (OMG a house cat at Northview....watch out for the sky falling, UFOs and other inexplicable phenomena) killing Mike's Bouda toy. As you can see he is quite ferocious and eager and then in typical cat fashion he forgets all about it.
Kill the Bouda..or not
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- threecollie
- Embracing agricultural diversity, one species at a time. All rights reserved
I enjoy visiting your blog because you obviously enjoy your beautiful world. You speak lovingly of your animals. You take time to grow awesome sunflowers and tinker with bubbling fish/frog ponds.
ReplyDeleteAnd... you have created a DIVINE "laundry oasis" (photo on yesterday's post). It looks like the "laundry of Eden." Just beautiful.
Thanks for sharing!
Y'all are truly stewards of the land. It's people like you that insure the future for the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteUltra modern! I like it. Perhaps if some urban folks got a couple years of ultra modern, it could really put things into perspective.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the random and sometimes unexplainable forms of play that BoudaBot will get into. Bwahahaha...
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Love the cat and Buddha! Luckily today I'm were there is highspeed.
ReplyDeleteOh, I LOVE hi-tech milking!!!! That's exactly how hi-tech I am. Thank you for sharing....and tell me, you gave your kitty some home-grown catnip, yes?
ReplyDeleteSusan, it is kind of you to say that. I do find great enjoyment in the little things. Small projects like my little bit of yard are pretty much all I can accomplish by myself, but I enjoy them. Thanks again
ReplyDeleteJeffro, that means a lot coming from you and I thank you. Loved your pig hunting story btw
STeve, yeah, it's the latest thing. We didn't want to take much milk from her as she comes down with milk fever at the drop of the hat. This is one method to measure accurately just how much you are taking.
Tipper, thanks, and I am glad you were where you could see the videos. I hesitate to use them because many of my friends and family not only have dial-up, they have very slow dial-up
Teri, thanks, we do use milking machines and a pipeline, but as you can read in my response to Steve, we don't always use them.
I keep meaning to bring Elvis in some catnip. There is a huge patch up by the calf pens. So far I have failed to remember though :(
Hey that's how we milk! Well kinda, I never knew their was a spray to fight mastitis, I will have to look into that in the future. Thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteMommyMommyland, lol, most times we do milk with machines, but the kids thought it would be funny to take a video of Becky hand milking my pet cow. We prep cows for milking with a 50/50 mix of Clorox and water in a spray bottle, washed off with a clean, slightly damp wash cloth (we have enough cloths for one or two for each individual cow for every single milking), strip a few squirts on the floor before attaching the milker, and finish up with Fight Bac. It is funny how we got started using it. They often give away cans of it at the farm shows to get folks to try it. We took one of those free cans to the fair with the show cows because it is portable and "keeps" unlike other dips. Other farmers who show with us saw us using it and started bringing it too because it is so convenient. Then we started using it on problem cows so we didn't spread any organisms from them to "clean" cows by using a community dip cup. We ended up liking it so much that we buy it by the case now and it has been our exclusive dip for several years. Good stuff as you can see by the Super Milk award. If you do want to try it many feed stores and Agways and such carry it.
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