on the hoof

[mpillow]

My dairy local farmer called me...."Come by I have some suckers" (dairy bull calves)

My fridge is full of goat milk...I've canned 75Q....I have a few gallons frzn.

I got a 100# 3wk old, an 80# 2 week old and a 60# jersey week old for $50. Short ride in the Subaru outback wagon packed tightly! Yes I know at auction I would have paid less BUT!....no bugaboos...

I hope more of you will notice how economical goat milk into a calf is... I'm not keeping all 3 but I have friends with goats/cows that are happy to multi buy w/me....this farmer knows I want healthy and natural and replaces any "problem" animals...

[Spinner]

Congrats on having a good contact. Wish we had a deal like that in my area. I've been looking since spring and haven't found any calves yet. With the price of feed so high, most cattlemen in this area have sold down to nothing but the bare minimum they need to replenish the herds in a year or two and they aren't breeding what they are holding. They won't part with anything they kept.

[manygoatsnmore]

I'd like to have a contact like that myself - I'd be milking a lot more goats (by machine with more than a few in milk), if I could find enough healthy calves to raise on the milk. It's a great way to market your milk - run it through the calves until they are weaning weight and then sell them as started calves.

[Callieslamb]

When I was in China, I saw a lot of things - but not a Subaru packed with cows.....

[mpillow]

China Eqypt Peru Madrid Poland Belfast Rome Belgrade....

in Maine of course!

[Bluecometk]

mpillow, Did you get a picture? Please tell me you did. If you did please post it.

Bluecometk

[mpillow]

pic of the calves? or in the subaru? Here's an old pic of another calf in the car with DD last year

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...w/100_0101.jpg

The big one had to lay down and the other two stood in the hatch back...its only 2 miles to the dairy barn...all are doing well today!

[freemanesq]

Originally Posted by mpillow

pic of the calves? or in the subaru? Here's an old pic of another calf in the car with DD last year

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...w/100_0101.jpg

The big one had to lay down and the other two stood in the hatch back...its only 2 miles to the dairy barn...all are doing well today!

That's a great picture. We went around the members of the household thinking up captions for the picture. "Do I know you?" was a favorite.

R.

[mpillow]

"I bet my tongue would reach!"

was our caption.