Posted by Texasmark1 on November 13, 2014 at 06:48:50 from (172.243.93.14):
In Reply to: New Users posted by showcrop on November 12, 2014 at 18:48:03:
Well I got kicked off for a spell for getting a belly full of a smart... making fun of a personal subject and telling him what I thought.
On moving to the country and being stupid, I did it 37 years ago and fit the MO perfectly. However, the old timer, "Insider" original family descendant, who was 30 years my senior had a jolly good time teasing me at every opportunity including this:
Get here with wife and 4 kids, city slicker looking for something better for the kids than the city problems. He had acquired a Holstein heifer calf that was bred had calved and was milking . Problem however was that she was the result of a White Face Bull hopping the fence to the dairy herd and having his way. I don't know how he acquired her but I bet it wasn't for much.
Genes were a mixture and she came out with 2" spiggots rather than 4 or whatever length the purebreds have. The short spouts wouldn't fit the milking machines, besides here being a cross breed so she was useless commercially.
He calls me over one day and says that he has this cow ready to milk and knowing full well I was having a financial strain in trying to get all that is needed for survival her in a startup situation with a good sized family.
"Tell you what Mark: You take her home and keep her for as long as you like and when you're finished bring her back." Seemed fair enough beins he didn't have any use for her. Don't remember where the calf went but I was not part of that.
Learning to milk her and teaching her to stick her head through a mickey mouse stanchion I rigged to put against her neck and lock her in the "milking parlor....ha" till I was finished came easier than I first envisaged.
About the 3rd day she had a name. Butter cup.....of all things...kids named her. About the end of the second week I was up at the old guys place wanting to know what he'd take for her...................now you don't suppose he know full well what was coming next, do you? Naw......that'd be a sleazy trick now wouldn't it.
He cheerfully said he'd take $850 for her. Well this was back in 1979 and quality stock wasn't even selling for that. But I didn't know and it didn't matter. The kids had their minds made up......course I got to do the milking twice a day.
But he was benevolent and said that I could pay it out, $100 a month. We kept her 2 years, had some superb milk with the butterfat that the beef breed added to the mix, had a fabulous calf out of her from a neighbor's Charloais bull that tore down 3 fences, beat up my bull and right in front of him had his way...course my bull was outweighed about a thousand pounds.
Don't remember what we did with her but after 2 years of milking I realized that I was NOT cut out to be a dairy farmer.
So you "old salts" (nautical term) throwing rocks at the newcomers, you have your fun too.
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