Podchef | July 23, 2010
Meet Maple, Claddagh Farm’s latest addition. Maple is a newly born Guernsey, dairy bull calf. His mother, Hazel, has been with us since just after we moved to the farm in late March. Of course, we had been hoping for a nice heifer calf, to help us keep our decisions simple….you see, we would have [...]
Podchef | February 19, 2009
Elsewhere1 I have written much about the primary currency of the domesticated dairy cow–milk. I may have, in passing, even mentioned her gift of the occasional calf. Now, that is a dividend not to be sniffed at.2¬† But to date, I am pretty sure, I have never mentioned one of the chief payments a cow [...]
Podchef | February 18, 2009
There is something I just don’t get. Why do farmers always seem to forget to keep some of the cream for themselves? At at time of falling incomes and rising prices, surely holding something back makes sense, right? Or is it that the American Farming Machine has gotten so big, that it can’t see it’s [...]
Podchef | February 16, 2009
Here is an udder. Bridget’s udder. I am sure she thinks the warm coating of hair all over it is nice. In truth, it is. Soft, hairy, warm, sweet smelling, and despite it’s pendulous nature, everything an udder should be. However, in a dairy cow, especially a hand milked Jersey, udder hair is a problem. [...]
Podchef | February 10, 2009
There was a time when having a family milk cow was quite common place.¬† A house cow such as Bridget1, here, would have provided milk, dairy products and beef for a family. At times the excess would have been enough to sell to create, if not an income, than an offset–payment for feed, bedding and [...]
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