Thanks for answering so quickly. The last time I had a milk cow, I was about six years old. (I'm one of those people, that as a kid, the doc told daddy that raw, un-pasteurized milk was making me sick- he bought a pastuerizer, and then got rid of the cow).
Anyway, I'm pretty sure thast cow did not have a calf. ? Now, I have no intentions of having any animal as big as a cow, but I suppose goats would be similar. After the lamb gets bigger (or slaughtered), does not the nanny continue to be milkable? Sorry for my ignorance on this; I have milked cows, but it has been so long, some of this stuff is confusiong .....bobford
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--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Farm Animals was SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 7:39 AM
> Sometime , when you have time. Explain to me how when
I move to the
> country, I can have adairy animal that doesn't
haver to be milked every
> day. I'm thinking that I could leave meat animals
and a smaller dairy
> animal with plenty of food and water and leave them
alone for a few days
> at a time, if necessary. But, I thin goats have to be
milked every day,
> just like cows. You don't have to answer this am,
but this is something I
> have thought about and don't know the answer
......bobford
It's easy; you leave the baby on them. You have to
figure out a way to keep
the baby away for a few hours, so you get the milk. Most
people lock the
calf in a pen overnight, milk the mother in the morning,
then let the calf
go. The mother will increase milk production if you do it
regularly, but the
calf will still suck it all up if you don't lock them
up before you milk. I
assume it works with goats, too.
I could, in theory, leave the animals to fend for
themselves for most of
the summer. The cows and sheep have a pond for water, and
lots of grass. The
chickens find bugs and stuff. That's all they need.
That's the theory; in
practice, I find that if I leave even to go to the store,
some catastrophe
or other strikes. It's much better now that I have my
new fence; last year,
I'd come home to find my bulls standing in the middle
of the road, holding
up traffic.
Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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