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apisbees:
A goat is easier than a cow just due to the lesser volume of milk. Hand fatigue is what gets you when your not doing it every day.
The father in-law had a cow with very small teats Me brother in-law was going the milking duties while the father in-law was on holidays. Her was only managing to milk out 1/2 a gallon before giving up due to soar hands, I was up checking my bees and looked at the cow in the field and could see she was in pain. checked the fridge to see how much milk he was getting and took the pail out and milked her again and got another 1 1/2 gallons He had only done 3 milkings and I redid the last one right away. So I took over the milking for the rest of the week. we could have had a sick cow if I had not noticed it. or in the least she would have been almost dried up by the time the in-laws returned.
brooksbeefarm:
Where was her calf? We use to share the milk with our milk cow with here calf. :yes: Jack
apisbees:
Never allowed the calf to start sucking would bucket feed the calf from birth, after a couple of weeks they no longer attempted to suck.
efmesch:
Dare I say, one of the nice things about beekeeping is that most of the time you can manage without needing a "fill-in" to cover for you when you go away on vacation or can't get to the hives for one reason or another. Of course, when raising queens your're on a tight schedule, but generally speaking, it won't damage your yield or your hives seriously if you remove and extract your honey a day earlier or later. So too with treating for varroa or some of the other maladies bees can come down with, a day or two sooner or later usually doesn't make too much difference.
Retroguy:
You get a couple of goats to feed the family and the next thing you know, here's what you get. Friends of ours near Spokane, WA.
www.chattaroycheese.com/
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