Re: Dairy Farming

Posted by Jim on January 19, 2001 at 02:06:46 from (64.12.104.53):

In Reply to: Dairy Farming posted by Rick on January 18, 2001 at 19:25:13:

The vacation idea or working weekends is a great idea - I help my neighbor out when I can get out to the farm - he only is running about 25 head right now of active milkers - plus dry and heifers. But suggest you also do during all the different seasons - not just during beautiful summer weather, but wet spring, wet and cold fall, and besure to do it for a few days when it is below zero.

Also do when the flys are biting just before a rain and all the 'girls' as I call them are moody - where you have to watch out for their hoofs and when your dipping the teats the tails are hitting you. Not to mention your bent over dipping them and they decide at that moment to make a mess on the palor floor.

Be sure to help scrape the floor and clean out the barn cleaner with a hoe and shovel when during the winter the manure is thick and heavy.

Be sure to be there when a cow goes down in the palor or out in the field and you have to get her up. Or a cow or calf dies and you have to move.
Or the cow get out and you have to go running all over in the middle of the night to bring them in. Or better yet, your working on cleaning a cow, you hear the bull bellow, and you go, gee he sounds close and you look up and find he is in the doorway because he got out.

Be sure to help when the bale spike breaks because of the cold. Or the tractor or truck wont start. Or the palor and pipe freeze up. Or you have to be careful because your hands are wet and if you touch metal they will freeze to it.

All this for a business that will lose money and have to go up against the large operations.

Why do it? Because of the rewards of feeding the calfs, rubbing the girls head as they come into the palor, the smell of the hay, the stars at night as you slip a hot cup of coffee after you finish milking. The fact you dont sit in a chair in a office all day. Plus you will probably get closer to your God when you do, see the joys he put here on earth for us.

Oh and by the way, you will fast become very good friends with whom you ever help out.

Just my experiences,
Jim

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