Our milk cow is giving over 5 gallons of milk per day

Tracy · Postby **Tracy** » April 9th, 2009, 2:25 pm

I'm just saying.

Susie Hamilton · Postby **Susie Hamilton** » April 9th, 2009, 2:43 pm

What are you doing with all that milk?

Tracy · Postby **Tracy** » April 9th, 2009, 3:58 pm

I'm about to order a cheese press!

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » April 9th, 2009, 4:11 pm

milk for breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, lunch, second lunch, dinner, etc... lot's of REAL butter too, i would guess.

JanB · Postby **JanB** » April 10th, 2009, 6:56 am

On our farm, when I was much younger, we had an automatic milker. Tracy, do you have one? Love hearing about your 'farm' life.

Postby **Shellie** » April 10th, 2009, 8:59 am

Might be cool to find a food bank or children's home nearby.

Tracy · Postby **Tracy** » April 11th, 2009, 1:27 am

Shellie wrote:Might be cool to find a food bank or children's home nearby.

That is a wonderful idea, but bost people are terrified of raw milk. The government has told them that they will acquire all manner of deadly diseases from it and has even outlawed the sale of raw milk in many states--Kentucky included.

Sad, isn't it?

Statistically though, you are 2,000 times more likely to get sick from pasteurized milk than raw.

And what in the world have people drunk over the last, say, oh--6,000 years or so? :roll:

I'll get off my soap box now. Gotta strain the milk that is sitting in the buckets. :lol:

Postby **Shellie** » April 11th, 2009, 2:20 am

Tracy wrote:

Sad, isn't it?

It is...sadly, we are a people that are so easily shaped by "what the experts say." (see homosexual thread, but I digress)

I grew up on raw cow's milk AND raw goat's milk....and I'm ok.....ummm, wait a minute.....

RuSKY · Postby **RuSKY** » April 11th, 2009, 2:47 am

Tracy

I am 61 years old today and I didn't know what Pasturized or homoginized was until I was grown.

If the cow is healthy, you won't get anything either. I doubt that there are many diseases that will pass from cow to humans.

I wish I had some of your cream.......YUM.... homade ice cream.

RuSKY

bibleguy · Postby **bibleguy** » April 11th, 2009, 4:06 am

If I'm not mistaken, the "experts" have even tried to say that formula was better for babies than human breast milk over the years. (But they've also proven that mother's milk gives the child a better immune system. Not to mention the natural bonding, and God knows what all else. He does you know!)

Saccharin is better than sugar?

Margarine is better than butter? (This one I'm not too sure about. I'm a little leary of anything you can leave out in the 80° weather, and it won't spoil. I mean, mold won't even eat the stuff!)

I guess we know better than our Creator, huh?

BTW, I'm just trying to do the math: We go through 1-2 gals./wk., plus we enjoy our butter (I think that's why God created bread, potatoes & crab legs -- just so we'd have something to put butter on). And Cheese!!! Now figuring the price of the cow and the cost of feed, and some vet care I assume, (and assuming you're not selling too much, even neighbors or friends or family), what does it cost to do your own personal dairy?

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » April 11th, 2009, 4:44 am

Zowie. Congrats... for your cups literally running over :lol:

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » April 11th, 2009, 5:49 am

I guess it's safe to assume that someone is doing quite a bit of milking then.

Jude 2