Watching a Hallmark movie

[seedcorn]

"Farmer" corrects a "city girl" when she says cow, that it is a steer. It's a heifer. Whoever got the props is too stupid to know the difference between a steer and heifer. & we wonder about people not knowing about their food source. At least he didn't say it was a horse.

 

[thistlebloom]

Hallmark movies. I have the same opinion of those as figs.
Insipidly sweet, and emotional manipulation at it's finest.


and I have just offended 2,534 people.

 

[baymule]

Didn't offend me. I saw one so dumb that they were milking a Hereford. Really? A Hereford?

 

[seedcorn]

Hey now, @canesisters is milking an angus cross.......

 

[thistlebloom]

I just now saw a Farmers insurance commercial featuring a ram ramming an SUV and they called it a billy goat.
Don't they have fact checkers?

 

[canesisters]

Didn't offend me. I saw one so dumb that they were milking a Hereford. Really? A Hereford?

I actually know quite a few people who got into the 'backyard dairy cow' thing by pulling a heifer out of their beef herd and training her to milk. Oddly enough, many of the beef breeds produce a higher butterfat than some of the dairy breeds. They just don't make as much or for as long.
There's no reason that a 'beef' cow can't be milked. No different than training a newfoundland dog to do an agility course. They won't win any prizes.. but they can certainly get the job done.

 

[canesisters]

I just now saw a Farmers insurance commercial featuring a ram ramming an SUV and they called it a billy goat.
Don't they have fact checkers?

I've noticed that many adults use Lion and Tiger interchangeably.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I actually know quite a few people who got into the 'backyard dairy cow' thing by pulling a heifer out of their beef herd and training her to milk. Oddly enough, many of the beef breeds produce a higher butterfat than some of the dairy breeds. They just don't make as much or for as long.
There's no reason that a 'beef' cow can't be milked. No different than training a newfoundland dog to do an agility course. They won't win any prizes.. but they can certainly get the job done.

Dad sort of did that one year. Due to circumstances he didn't have a milk cow all of a sudden and did not have the cash to immediately buy another. So he took a cow that had a young calf, sold the calf, and trained her to milk. When he did get the cash he got a real milk cow. With five kids you need a cow that will produce some volume and decent butterfat.

Most personal milk cows were crosses, usually with some Jersey, Guernsey or Milking Shorthorn in their background. Since practically all the bulls available were either Angus or Hereford what would normally happen is that the milk cow would be bred by an available beef breed bull and the calves sold as veal. But when it came time to replace the milk cow you kept one of her daughters as a replacement. But after enough generations you'd buy one with more "milk breed" in her mix. Holsteins were not used for this. They give copious amounts of milk but the butterfat content was too low.

 

[seedcorn]

One g'pa had Holsteins, sold all his milk. The other one had 1Jersey/Guernsey cross for family milk. She would give about 3/4 bucket of milk 2X/day. Hand milked. His neighbor had a Jersey herd so he would take her down their to visit every so often. Mile walk.