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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 8:53:07 GMT -5
yep is the answer. just the once at a friends farm. of course most milking even then (this was late fifties) machines did it all. Don't recall why machines weren't working that day. to be honest not my idea of fun BUT the milk was amazing to drink.
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Post by RebeccaLee on May 8, 2015 11:31:37 GMT -5
Funny when you talk about misconceptions...there are those out there that still believe that in Canada it is winter year round, that we drive dog sleds and that Wayne Gretsky is our Prime minister...lol Which leads me to another story...ha ha...when I was little my brother had me convinced that cows where horses and vice versa and that brown "horses" gave chocolate milk!
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Post by Marilyn on May 8, 2015 11:56:10 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? Yup! Grew up milking cows by hand. It's a fun experience! Hubby also grew up milking cows, but they used machines. Cows give birth once a year. I always thought it was so funny when one of the boys was milking Chance and would get up, walk away to talk to someone in the barn close by and leave the bucket under her. No.. you never, never do that! She will kick it over.
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Post by Jan on May 8, 2015 15:56:48 GMT -5
I am another who has never milked a cow and don't think I want to learn either. I grew up a military BRAT on three different Army bases and later lived in the city when Dad retired, so I know little about farm life. Here I am living smack dab in the middle of rural America, too. My husband was raised on a farm and tells me I don't know what I missed. When Dad moved us from Maine to Iowa we spent time at our grandparents' farm when he was sent to Korea. Grandma and Grandpa didn't have cows but did have geese and chickens. I saw how chickens met their demise and it was not something I could handle. I knew then and there I didn't belong on a farm. I read a lot of Amish novels and do love learning about Amish farm life, though. I find it fascinating.....hard work, but fascinating.
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Post by patriciaanne on May 8, 2015 16:08:37 GMT -5
My massage therapist sugars her maples. When I went there a few weeks ago, she had 3 trees that she was tapping.
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Post by patriciaanne on May 8, 2015 16:12:02 GMT -5
My mother milked a cow on my great grandmother's farm in Ireland. She was on her honeymoon. I haven't had the chance (see what I did there!) but when we move to TN, I would like to have milking goats and maybe 1 dairy cow.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 17:06:31 GMT -5
I have never milked a cow I have never seen a cow being milked. I don't know what kind of cows give milk or when they can give milk or what is a dairy cow or beef cow etc... I'm a city boy. I used to drink brown cows. They were good.
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 8, 2015 20:47:15 GMT -5
Funny when you talk about misconceptions...there are those out there that still believe that in Canada it is winter year round, that we drive dog sleds and that Wayne Gretsky is our Prime minister...lol Which leads me to another story...ha ha...when I was little my brother had me convinced that cows where horses and vice versa and that brown "horses" gave chocolate milk! When my daughter was little we told her the ice cream truck was.....the singing mailman!
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 8, 2015 20:49:45 GMT -5
I have never milked a cow I have never seen a cow being milked. I don't know what kind of cows give milk or when they can give milk or what is a dairy cow or beef cow etc... I'm a city boy. I used to drink brown cows. They were good. If you are ever near one and the tail goes up......RUN! They pee gallons!!!! And the mud pies they make can fill a large bucket....and the poo is not nice, little dry pellets! Just one big, wet, steamy PLOP! Jason, Jason, get the basin! Plop! Never mind. Get the mop! Beter yet.... A pitch fork and a wheel barrel! Your gonna need it!
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 8, 2015 20:58:02 GMT -5
I have never milked a cow I have never seen a cow being milked. I don't know what kind of cows give milk or when they can give milk or what is a dairy cow or beef cow etc... I'm a city boy. I used to drink brown cows. They were good. What is it like? A teat is a teat. Cows just have big ones....and more then two! You have seen John Boy milk the cow. You just grab an teat, give a squeeze and a pull. Dairy cows give milk and are breed to produce lots of milk. Different types of cows give milk that can have a higher or lower fat content. Beef cows are breed to have more meat on them. They are not milked. Just raised and then slaughtered for meat. Cows need to be milked early in the morning and around supper time. It is painful for the cows if they are not milked. They will come to the barn and moo when it is milking time. Their udders get very full. Just like when a women needs to nurse her baby. What do cows feel like when you touch them? They are very warm and their hides are silky and yet rough. They have very long, thick, snotty tongues that they can stick up their nostrils! This is true! I have seen it many times! And they have long eyelashes! I think Jersey cows are the prettiest! They have the sweetest faces.
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 8, 2015 21:09:17 GMT -5
And.....at the state fair....the people who own the cows use baby wipes to clean the cows butts! True again! I have seen it!
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 8, 2015 21:12:09 GMT -5
And.... If a baby cow is having trouble getting born, the owners will put on these long, long plastic bag things on their arms and go get the calf! Sometimes they are shoulder deep in the cows business! Ouch!
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 21:18:12 GMT -5
I have never milked a cow I have never seen a cow being milked. I don't know what kind of cows give milk or when they can give milk or what is a dairy cow or beef cow etc... I'm a city boy. I used to drink brown cows. They were good. What is it like? A teat is a teat. Cows just have big ones....and more then two! You have seen John Boy milk the cow. You just grab an teat, give a squeeze and a pull. Dairy cows give milk and are breed to produce lots of milk. Different types of cows give milk that can have a higher or lower fat content. Beef cows are breed to have more meat on them. They are not milked. Just raised and then slaughtered for meat. Cows need to be milked early in the morning and around supper time. It is painful for the cows if they are not milked. They will come to the barn and moo when it is milking time. Their udders get very full. Just like when a women needs to nurse her baby. What do cows feel like when you touch them? They are very warm and their hides are silky and yet rough. They have very long, thick, snotty tongues that they can stick up their nostrils! This is true! I have seen it many times! And they have long eyelashes! I think Jersey cows are the prettiest! They have the sweetest faces.
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Post by ForeverWaltons on May 9, 2015 1:51:47 GMT -5
I have never milked a cow I have never seen a cow being milked. I don't know what kind of cows give milk or when they can give milk or what is a dairy cow or beef cow etc... I'm a city boy. I used to drink brown cows. They were good. If you are ever near one and the tail goes up......RUN! They pee gallons!!!! And the mud pies they make can fill a large bucket....and the poo is not nice, little dry pellets! Just one big, wet, steamy PLOP!
The mud pies are good for the following when they dry and become hard:
#1 Use them for bases when you play ball out in the cow field.
#2 Set them on fire and use them for fuel to keep warm by.
#3 Set them on fire and cook something in a container/pot over them outside.
I have done all three! Mud pies just basically end up becoming dried clumps of grass/hay when they dry out.
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Post by Kathy Lee on May 9, 2015 5:21:40 GMT -5
If you are ever near one and the tail goes up......RUN! They pee gallons!!!! And the mud pies they make can fill a large bucket....and the poo is not nice, little dry pellets! Just one big, wet, steamy PLOP!
The mud pies are good for the following when they dry and become hard:
#1 Use them for bases when you play ball out in the cow field.
#2 Set them on fire and use them for fuel to keep warm by.
#3 Set them on fire and cook something in a container/pot over them outside.
I have done all three! Mud pies just basically end up becoming dried clumps of grass/hay when they dry out.
Fifth grade is studying Westward Expansion in the library and the classroom. We were talking about how mud pies were used to fuel the fires as their were no trees or no time to cut firewood. The kids were going . But I reminded them that cows only eat grass and hay and that is what their poo is made of. Then I told them that the CHILDREN had the job of gathering mud pies!
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