Posted by fixerupper on November 21, 2009 at 20:19:59 from (207.177.13.178):
In Reply to: When Dad quit milking posted by Riverslim on November 21, 2009 at 17:20:08:
My dad milked one cow for our own use when I was a kid. He wouldn't let me crank the separator cause he didn't think I'd run it the right speed. I did have to crank the butter churn on saturday mornings. Boring! The reward was the sweet buttermilk.
The cow was a guernsey so we had plenty of cream, which was fine with me cause I loved the stuff. I was growing so fast I couldn't get fat if I tried. This cream was the real McCoy, so thick it'd glue the Cheerios together. I'd mix up a batch of whipped cream, the real stuff, and sit and eat it. The resulting bellyache was worth it.
Marilyn grew up milking 100 cows along with her brothers in a stanchion barn, so today she won't even look at a cow. There were too many times getting stepped on, kicked, squeezed between cows, the flying wet tail,you know the rest. Jim
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