Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[Latestarter]

She has a good looking udder! Seems she's doing real well for you! Congrats on your persistence!

 

[samssimonsays]

She is turning out to be a good milker and boy is rosco big. I keep wanting to say little rosco but he is not little.

I still call him little boy... He is over half of Scarlets size now. Hoping to make some cheese with this last weeks milk. I have an order for Mozzarella already SHould be interesting to see how it turns out

 

[samssimonsays]

She has a good looking udder! Seems she's doing real well for you! Congrats on your persistence!

Thank you! It has been a roller coaster but I am enjoying the ride! I wish I had more milk LOL So much I want to do but not enough Soon I will.

 

[samssimonsays]

I just found these photos (I was looking at lunch with no luck) but for my record, I wanted to see them next to each other.


Scarlets Udder progress:

top left, 4 weeks in, never milked, single kid second day home.
top right, 4.5 weeks in, never milked, single buckling.

bottom left, 7 weeks, 10 hour fill, 1 week after starting milking
bottom right, week 9 on a 10 hour fill.

 

[Southern by choice]

Looking gooood! This is her first freshening right?
Nice teat placement

Looks like she is going to be a very nice doe for you.

What is she producing in pounds?
Looks very promising considering she had a single and late start milking. Which, I personally don't pay too much attention to first timers unleess it is pretty high. If low, or single etc doesn't mean the doe won't do great later.

So happy for you!

 

[MrsKuhn]

Gorgeous dogs sam! and Rosco is such a HAM! Every photo he is looking at you and I love it. He is adorable little/big guy

 

[samssimonsays]

Looking gooood! This is her first freshening right?
Nice teat placement

Looks like she is going to be a very nice doe for you.

What is she producing in pounds?
Looks very promising considering she had a single and late start milking. Which, I personally don't pay too much attention to first timers unleess it is pretty high. If low, or single etc doesn't mean the doe won't do great later.

So happy for you!

This is her first yes! She has given me the experience and with her gradual increase, I have been able to gradually build up the muscles in my hands and they no longer cramp up We have also learned PATIENCE together, something I am not good with... I have no clue in pounds yet, actually I never thought to weigh it as I have only gotten 2-2 3/4 cups a day in the morning and baby takes EVERYTHING at night as when he sees me coming for evening milking he rushes to her and drains her. He then looks at me, licks his lips and makes these sweet little noises (almost like coos) at me that make me wanna ....But I cannot because he is cute... I plan on starting to weigh next year (hoping to get a milker over the winter along with all of the "real" milking supplies although, I LOVE using my steam pots vs the milk pail I tried . I do have a baby scale that I used to weigh baby bunnies on.... would that work for milk this year? Then I could tell you now I plan to build a milk stand soon... I keep telling myself that so maybe it will happen soonish Buck pen comes first! Time is ticking more rapidly on that one!

I may or may not have just picked out an alpine FF who is 2 years old. I had the pleasure of hand milking each of my options at milking time to determine who was a better fit for me. We will get her when her kid is weaned in a few weeks

Although I have switched Scarlet to a sweet feed now, I know for a fact I love drinking the alpine milk that comes from this farm so adding another Alpine for drinking milk isn't a bad plan for me! Scarlets IS sweetening up and tasting less cow milk like (it isn't bad or goaty I just don't like cow milk taste) Actually... it had less flavor than cows milk but the after taste was all 2% store bought milk.

 

[Ferguson K]

I'm still liking her udder!

 

[samssimonsays]

Gorgeous dogs sam! and Rosco is such a HAM! Every photo he is looking at you and I love it. He is adorable little/big guy

Thank you so much! I my dogs too hahaha they are our kids at the moment. Stella sleeps in bed with us... Just her. She is pampered... Rumely would if he could but he is too big and when we have tried it he moves too much because he is excited he is in bed and we get punched, clawed or nearly smothered So he sleeps on my side of the bed Sadie, she too gets just too darn excited and won't let us sleep. She has finally calmed a bit when it comes to sleeping out of her kennel and wont just go from one side of the bed to the other to visit each of us for love non stop... That was the only reason she had to sleep in the kennel for as long as she did

I am glad you love Rosco! You are going to have mini's soon so you should love who you see! Yeah right... not love a goat? who am I kidding... we love them all no matter what they look like because they are all adorable!

 

[TAH]

Congrats on your soon to be alpine.