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Post by RebeccaLee on May 6, 2015 22:09:07 GMT -5
Just watching season 1 and Olivia calls upstairs to John boy to milk the cow...got to thinking that this is on my bucket list. Being a townie this is something I have never done but want too. How about you?
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Post by Brenda on May 6, 2015 22:51:33 GMT -5
Just watching season 1 and Olivia calls upstairs to John boy to milk the cow...got to thinking that this is on my bucket list. Being a townie this is something I have never done but want too. How about you? Like you, I have never milked a cow. Unlike you, I don't want to milk a cow. "Daddy said it would be a lot easier if you could just screw off her tail and dip it out with a gourd." Mary Ellen in The Homecoming
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Post by coriscapnskip on May 7, 2015 1:13:33 GMT -5
Two summers I stayed with friends on a dairy farm where we would "strip" the cows (clean the udders with disinfectant and then check the teats to make sure the milk was flowing before attaching the machine). But technically I didn't milk them!
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 7, 2015 5:32:04 GMT -5
Just watching season 1 and Olivia calls upstairs to John boy to milk the cow...got to thinking that this is on my bucket list. Being a townie this is something I have never done but want too. How about you? I have! We have friends in New York State and their neighbors had a dairy. They would let us milk the cows. We never did it big time but just to try out what it was like. We have also milked goats at the New York State Fair. In the Youth Building the children sometimes will let you try milking. The fair also has a fake cow with fake teats that the children love to milk. My father's family kept goats when he was a child. He would often tell the story of how it was his job to move the goat at lunch time when he was a child. He was supposed to going during his lunch time at school and move the goat to a shady spot. Well, he kept forgetting to move the goat. One day his father came and found him on the playground playing and took him to where the goat was standing in the hot sun. My grandfather took the chain from the goats neck and put it around my father's neck! My grandfather told my father to sit in the hot sun so he would know how the goat felt. My father said the other students would soon be walking back to school and would pass right by him. He did I not want them to see that he was chained like a goat! So, he took off his shirt, moved the chain around, and then put back on his shirt so it hid the chain. He always made us laugh when he told how he was sitting there all casual like as students came walking by. "Aren't you going back to school?," everyone was asking. "No," said my father. "It's too nice of a day. I am just going to sit here in the sun!" My father said that he NEVER forgot to move the goat again!
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Post by Honeybee on May 7, 2015 6:47:39 GMT -5
I think, I did once at a farm petting zoo. It was long time ago. So, I don't remember if I did or not.
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Post by e knight on May 7, 2015 9:49:51 GMT -5
If the Fates are kind, I never will!
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Post by Uncle Coaster on May 7, 2015 10:10:08 GMT -5
I did once as a youngster. My Aunt and Uncle had a cow and one time while visiting my cousin was milking it and let me take a few turns, so to speak. I don't really remember much about it other than being scared at the time. I was probably 6 or 7 years old. I also rode that cow. She must have loved me.
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Post by carol on May 7, 2015 12:15:03 GMT -5
I have never milked a cow but I have been around them. My grandfather had a farm and he had a cow, chickens and pigs. Actually I think the cow belonged to his neighbor but Grandpop housed it in his barn and he and they neighbor split the cost of the hay. Grandpop probably got some milk in the deal too. The neighbor also kept a horse named Ginger in the barn which I rode a few times. I was about 6 or 7 then. I would love to ride a horse again.
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Post by sdw on May 7, 2015 13:38:12 GMT -5
My grandfather had cows, and when my sister and I were staying with my grandparents while my Mom was working we would go down to the barn in the afternoon,my sister would help get the cows in the barn,while I would stand on the cistern.When the cows were in the barn,some would go in the stables where there calves were,and I would give the cows some hay.My grandfather milked some cows to take back to the house,I remember he squirted milk into one of the cats he had mouth.My sister milked one of his cows.I did too but my sister did a better job.My sister always like going to the barn with Papaw,and going to the stock barn with him.
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Post by Tonyray on May 7, 2015 17:51:15 GMT -5
Never milked a cow but did ride a bull once. Well it was a yearling bull and I only stayed on for maybe 8/100 of a second.
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 7, 2015 17:55:21 GMT -5
Never milked a cow but did ride a bull once. Well it was a yearling bull and I only stayed on for maybe 8/100 of a second. We live not far from Cowtown Rodeo. It is a popular place to watch bull riding.....and all that other roping and riding stuff.
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Post by flyaway on May 7, 2015 19:46:02 GMT -5
Have milked cows and sheep. When I worked in Philadelphia, the people I worked with were mostly city filk and did not know that, first there are dairy cows, and there are beef cows, and second they did not know that a cow had to have a calf in order to give milk. They just assumed that all cows give milk
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Post by Tonyray on May 7, 2015 22:14:06 GMT -5
Never milked a cow but did ride a bull once. Well it was a yearling bull and I only stayed on for maybe 8/100 of a second. We live not far from Cowtown Rodeo. It is a popular place to watch bull riding.....and all that other roping and riding stuff. Don't think you can call it much if a bull ride I think it took longer to get on the bull then it took to fall off.
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 8, 2015 2:49:17 GMT -5
Have milked cows and sheep. When I worked in Philadelphia, the people I worked with were mostly city filk and did not know that, first there are dairy cows, and there are beef cows, and second they did not know that a cow had to have a calf in order to give milk. They just assumed that all cows give milk That is too funny! I was talking to someone once and he did not know that maple sap was only gathered in the spring. (Cold night and warm days makes the sap flow.) But, someone from the city would not these things. I guess there are not maple buckets hanging on trees in the city parks!
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 8, 2015 2:52:48 GMT -5
Have milked cows and sheep. When I worked in Philadelphia, the people I worked with were mostly city filk and did not know that, first there are dairy cows, and there are beef cows, and second they did not know that a cow had to have a calf in order to give milk. They just assumed that all cows give milk And that cows usually freshen (give birth and start lactating) every few years to make the cows give a lot of milk. Calves usually only nurse from their mothers for a few days. Then are separated from their mothers (sorry Bullet). Then the regular milk comes in which is what the family will use until the cow goes dry.
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