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Man doesn't consume beef cattle milk, true or false?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1729542" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>What Jan said... Dad carried a pail of warm water and clean dishrag out to clean and prep the cow's udder prior to milking, but he was hand-milking, in a dirt-floored stall in the little reclaimed wood-framed, tin-sided milking shed. I'm sure the cow swished her tail around, probably moved - or kicked - a foot from time to time, etc., so yes... some straw, dry manure dust, etc. would end up in the milk. If she humped up to pee or poop, you moved the bucket asap. Grandmother strained it out (at least the visible chunks!) through a cheesecloth.</p><p>They pulled the calf off in the evening, milked in the morning, and let the calf suck throughout the day.</p><p></p><p>Mom's family had had a Golden Guernsey dairy... she hated the Holsteins... claimed you could see a penny in the bottom of a 55 gallon barrel full of that old 'blue-john' Holstein milk...</p><p>Had a good friend who married into a dairy operation - they had a sizeable show-string of Guernseys, plus Holsteins. While she loved the look of the Guernseys, she admitted - as RafterS indicated, that they didn't have much fight in them, and would just lie down and die at the drop of a hat. But, the husband and FIL were dedicated to keeping some Guernseys going right up until the day they dispersed the herd. </p><p></p><p>Yes, average daily milk production for a commercial, optimally-fed HO cow is ~ 9 gal, 6 gal for a Jersey (at peak lactation, they'd be quite a bit higher!). But, if you wanted a 'family cow', you wouldn't necessarily go for the same production-level genetics, and without pouring the feed to them, they wouldn't produce at that level. If I were going for 'grass-based' production for a family milk cow, I'd be searching out genetics developed to perform in that setting, or a dual-purpose breed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1729542, member: 12607"] What Jan said... Dad carried a pail of warm water and clean dishrag out to clean and prep the cow's udder prior to milking, but he was hand-milking, in a dirt-floored stall in the little reclaimed wood-framed, tin-sided milking shed. I'm sure the cow swished her tail around, probably moved - or kicked - a foot from time to time, etc., so yes... some straw, dry manure dust, etc. would end up in the milk. If she humped up to pee or poop, you moved the bucket asap. Grandmother strained it out (at least the visible chunks!) through a cheesecloth. They pulled the calf off in the evening, milked in the morning, and let the calf suck throughout the day. Mom's family had had a Golden Guernsey dairy... she hated the Holsteins... claimed you could see a penny in the bottom of a 55 gallon barrel full of that old 'blue-john' Holstein milk... Had a good friend who married into a dairy operation - they had a sizeable show-string of Guernseys, plus Holsteins. While she loved the look of the Guernseys, she admitted - as RafterS indicated, that they didn't have much fight in them, and would just lie down and die at the drop of a hat. But, the husband and FIL were dedicated to keeping some Guernseys going right up until the day they dispersed the herd. Yes, average daily milk production for a commercial, optimally-fed HO cow is ~ 9 gal, 6 gal for a Jersey (at peak lactation, they'd be quite a bit higher!). But, if you wanted a 'family cow', you wouldn't necessarily go for the same production-level genetics, and without pouring the feed to them, they wouldn't produce at that level. If I were going for 'grass-based' production for a family milk cow, I'd be searching out genetics developed to perform in that setting, or a dual-purpose breed. [/QUOTE]
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