Jude 2

We are still waiting for Sweetheart to calve; here are a couple of pictures of her from today. She is getting very wide!






Baby Isabelle want to be a good milk cow too--see her with her head in the stanchion? lol. She'll have to wait awhile. She is getting very big and loves to have her chin scratched. She is quite spoiled.

How old does a cow have to be to start giving milk? BTW, love the pics, she is a cutie.

I'm glad you liked the pictures

A cow has to have a calf before she will make milk. They can be bred from around 15 months to 2 years old, and they have a gestation period of 9 months.

Izzy is only 5 months old, so it will be awhile.

Is Sweetheart your cow also? Looks like she has a heart shape on her forehead.

Yes, she is our current milk cow. When our first milk cow died soon after giving birth to Izzy, our dairy friends let us borrow Sweetheart so that we would have milk. We liked her so much that we bought her from them.

She isn't giving milk right now, because she is about to calve. But I froze about 70 gallons of milk before we dried her off so that we would continue to have fresh milk. We haven't milked since December, but we're still drinking her milk! lol.

We'll start milking again when she calves.

The things I learn on Jude2

A cow has to have a calf before she will make milk.

Penny wrote:The things I learn on Jude2

A cow has to have a calf before she will make milk.

I too love the pics and learning all about your farm. My family is planning on a bigger garden this year and I even teased my hubby that we could get some chickens and cows.

I am so glad there are people like you who love that.

I had all of it I wanted as a kid and went into music to escape it.....

We have members who have chickens......hence we have eggs ....we just bring the cartons back and they fill them up.

When I see a cow I immediatly think .......ah.........ribeye!!!!!! or prime rib!!!!

Dr. Ron wrote:When I see a cow I immediatly think .......ah.........ribeye!!!!!! or prime rib!!!!

I think meat when I see certain cows! lol And I may be thinking that if Sweetheart has a bull calf