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Dairy - Cows Introduction

Hello, I'm Katie, Brittany's friend from college. I milk 4 jersey cows for raw milk and cheesemaking, on my family farm in Maine. Our aim is to raise organic jersey and jersey-cross calves on their mothers milk, eventually amassing a herd of 20 or so, for shipping organic milk, or a small independant dairy-- we'll see how things work out. But for now, jerseys make a great family cow, for sure. You wanna talk cows?

General Family Cow Information

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Milking 20 cows manually is not a problem if you are used to. You write you will feed the calves on their mother milk, I think it would not be necessary to milk that milk you will give to the calves.

Management

poop and Grazing

Fields and Fences

Milking equipment

Barn set-up

Calves

Time requirements

Cow Health, Vet Visits and home management

=Mastitis, treat without antibiotics

Using the milk

Raw milk

Legal
Nutritional

Cheese-making

Butter

Keifer, Yogurt

Clabbered Milk

Other products

Economics

Buying a cow

Costs

Profits

Selling Milk

Selling Milk Products

Resources