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My first cow-buying experience didn't go so well. I bought a very nice Jersey cow and calf for the purpose of milking the cow and selling off the calf for butcher..
I wanted a mini cow....a gentleman w/ a mid-size cow talked me into buying this bigger, Mid-sized girl.
Between my inexperience and the fact that she was NOT, in fact, a good cantidate for hand-milking (as we were told), our joy at having Celine quickly turned to "What have I done???" regrets.
Her rear teats were too small to hand milk and she was kicky and a 'dancer'....
The problem was, I HAD to milk her once we sold the calf...and it took literally an hour. An hour on your knees ducking kicking cow hooves...not fun.
We sold her to someone w/ a milk machine who loves her dearly....she was a nice cow, she just wasn't built for and wasn't used to hand milking like we were told....With the machine she's doing well.
I thought maybe I'd been soured on the entire idea of cow ownership, but my husband really wanted one and kept pushing.
We happened to run across a little J-Lo heifer (Lowline x Mini Jersey) and traded her for a 4-wheeler we no longer use anyway.
Hopefully we can raise her up / train her and milk her. If not, her size will make her much easier to manage as a pet...which is all my husband really wanted to begin with. I just wanted his pet to help pay for itself.
She's a bottle baby and easy to handle.
This is Morwyn....
With a pic of me to show how small she is.... 25" at 3 mos.
I wanted a mini cow....a gentleman w/ a mid-size cow talked me into buying this bigger, Mid-sized girl.
Between my inexperience and the fact that she was NOT, in fact, a good cantidate for hand-milking (as we were told), our joy at having Celine quickly turned to "What have I done???" regrets.
Her rear teats were too small to hand milk and she was kicky and a 'dancer'....
The problem was, I HAD to milk her once we sold the calf...and it took literally an hour. An hour on your knees ducking kicking cow hooves...not fun.
We sold her to someone w/ a milk machine who loves her dearly....she was a nice cow, she just wasn't built for and wasn't used to hand milking like we were told....With the machine she's doing well.
I thought maybe I'd been soured on the entire idea of cow ownership, but my husband really wanted one and kept pushing.
We happened to run across a little J-Lo heifer (Lowline x Mini Jersey) and traded her for a 4-wheeler we no longer use anyway.
Hopefully we can raise her up / train her and milk her. If not, her size will make her much easier to manage as a pet...which is all my husband really wanted to begin with. I just wanted his pet to help pay for itself.
She's a bottle baby and easy to handle.
This is Morwyn....
![586_morwyn.jpg](http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/586_morwyn.jpg)
With a pic of me to show how small she is.... 25" at 3 mos.
![586_morwyn2.jpg](http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/586_morwyn2.jpg)