With all the moving plans, we intended, last fall, to dry off our milk cow. She is getting a bit old for milking, so we thought we would send her to the packing house, and get a new cow after we moved. Well, about two months ago, we discovered she must have gotten bred when the bulls got out last summer. So, instead of sending her off, we are keeping her through another lactation. Which, as it turns out, is good. Our neighbor lady who we bought milk from for a time, decided milking is too strenuous for her right now, and sold her cow. So we have to go all the way to the Valley to get good, raw milk! Corabelle calved on Saturday, so as soon as the colostrum is all through, we will have oodles of good, fresh milk! She is giving around 5 gallons of colostrum a day right now, and that will probably continue for a while. It will be so good to have lots of milk again! One of the first things I will do is make a half gallon into chocolate milk for afternoon snack time! I won’t drink it all myself, of course…quite.
The Jolly Jumble 
Seeing the cow and calf make me miss having them. Thanks for sharing!
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