Morning !!
Just back from fun in the sun in San Dieago, Had to go out for family stuff.
I raise Highlands , and have kept a highland for milk for hmmm... can it really be ten years now? I share with the calf , and even then I can easily pull 3 gallons a day in her peak, and although now that she has become a little older. when she was in her prime i could handily compare her butterfat to that of a jersey
not so now, she is thirteen ! I really need to consider heifer breaking one of her daughters to replace her.
about the hair , i do what most dairys do , give her a good clip on the udder and on the inside of her legs , always keeps things pretty clean for me.
I know during WWII there were several small farms around here that milked herfords and angus for the creameries , beef animals having typically high butterfat percentages . I have a floor model IH seperator that took 3 men and a boy to get out of the basement of one such farm house , works fine can either use electric , or hand crank , and I have used both , but since it really is a pain in the behind to clean up I tend to not use it, unless i am going to put through over 20 gallons of milk ..
Paula
Hyde Park Farm