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Post by countrygal on Mar 27, 2009 13:00:14 GMT -5
Just thought I'd post some interesting facts about Dairy and Oneida Co farms.  In 2007 Oneida Co. had 995 farms compared to 1,080 in 2002 Oneida Co. ranks 6th in number of farms and farmland in NY Cows have no upper front teeth Both male and female cows get horns Cows do not sweat Cows can only give milk after they've had a calf. They have calves all year long, not just in the spring. Cows drink 25-50 gallons of water a day and eat approx. 90 pounds of food per day. A cow has one stomach with four compartments Holstein cows weigh approx. 1400 pounds Cows are pregnant 9 months and calves weigh approx. 90 pounds when born. There are 12 gallons in 100 pounds of milk. Farmers are paid per 100 pounds not by the gallon. 10 pounds of milk = 1 pound of cheese 12 pounds of milk = 1 gallon of ice cream Milk comes out of the cow at 101 degrees and is cooled to and stored at 40 degrees. It takes 2 days to go from cow to grocery store. Cows make approx. 8 gallons of milk per day Milk is not stored in the silo! ;D A farmer wears many hats including business manager, vet, mechanic, accountant, meteorologist, nutritionist, horticulturist to name just a few! |
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 27, 2009 13:17:46 GMT -5
A farmer wears many hats including business manager, vet, mechanic, accountant, meteorologist, nutritionist, horticulturist to name just a few! |
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Post by countrygal on Mar 28, 2009 18:46:29 GMT -5
Yes, those too!!!
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Post by Swimmy on Mar 28, 2009 19:47:22 GMT -5
I thought for sure you were going to rip him apart for not including the fact that a farmer can also be a wife and mother. |
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Post by countrygal on Mar 28, 2009 22:38:10 GMT -5
LOL, swimmy......Well, those too!! I have a few women friends that are more the farmers than their husbands! I think of my husband as the farmer, I'm just here to help out....haha.
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Post by chris on Mar 29, 2009 9:06:51 GMT -5
Just thought I'd post some interesting facts about Dairy and Oneida Co farms. A cow has one stomach with four compartments 1 for whipped cream 1 for chocolate milk 1 for buttermik 1 for 2% ;D ;D ;D ;D Those are quite intersting facts that probably most don't know about. My sister's Godfather had a dairy farm in Clinton, NY. Not sure if it is still there as we lost touch. It was on College Hill. |
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Post by concerned on Mar 29, 2009 11:25:27 GMT -5
Are there special cows for chocolate milk?
Both male and female cows get horns-----then how do you know the male cows and female cows, and if both are cows then what are bulls? I thought a bull had to have sex with a cow in order to get another cow( or bull)?
This is just as confusing as Cornish game hens. Does the roster have sex with the chicken to get a Cornish game hen? And if not then who has sex with the roaster?
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Post by countrygal on Mar 29, 2009 14:57:32 GMT -5
I was trying to use terms people would understand. Sorry you found it so confusing.
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Post by frankcor on Mar 30, 2009 8:55:44 GMT -5
Welcome to my hell (I write manuals for a living).
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Post by lucy on Mar 30, 2009 10:20:03 GMT -5
yummy, all this stuff makes me hungry and thirsty for some Chocolate milk. Cornish hens are my hubby's favorite food. he makes them dance in the sink before cooking.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 30, 2009 10:21:49 GMT -5
LOL, you have my sympathy Frank. It is a rewarding task, but very boring at times. I was responsible for rewriting some very outdated training materials for the US Air Force. I re-formatted them into a standard format, and insured that they were understandable to someone with a 9th grade reading level. I found that humorous. Take a "technical" manual, and insure it can be read easily by a non technical person. Damn sure gets interesting, taking materials written by technicians and engineers, and insure it can be understood by an Air Force airman, straight out of basic training. LOL.
I must have done something right. It earned me the distinction of being the "Transportation Civilian Employee of the Year" for the year 1987, and as a result, I was given a slot in the Transportation Officer's School at Shepard AFB, Texas, along with a sustained superior performance award, cash incentive, and a large bronze eagle, mounted on a mahogany base.LOL
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 30, 2009 11:35:04 GMT -5
Early training ... without the manual.
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Post by frankcor on Mar 30, 2009 12:49:22 GMT -5
Awww, now that's cute.
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Post by countrygal on Mar 30, 2009 18:17:23 GMT -5
That is very cute. My husband had my 4 year old son helping him put machines on today. Of course the cow is high up in the parlor so the udder is eye level. It took him 10 minutes to put on 2 machines with Logan helping (as opposed to about 5 seconds per machine)  |
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Post by Clipper on Mar 30, 2009 19:08:58 GMT -5
I am afraid Logan would fall a little behind if you went away for the weekend and left him to milk. It would only take him 40 or 50 hours to milk once, and that would leave the cows very discontented and uncomfortable, LOL.
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