Posted on 02/04/2006 6:31:13 PM PST by Calpernia
Jerseys also have a sweet personality.
But lately my eyes have been opened regarding the raising of cattle. Years ago we kept a few to grow out for meat. They seemed relatively trouble free. So a couple of months ago we thought we would buy a couple to grow for our own use.
Just this week we had another part Angus calf go bad, but thanks to one of the new high powered expensive antibiotics he's doing fine. The vet says he had a common infection that causes polio type symptoms in young cattle and depletes their reserves of thiamine.
I also can't believe all the feeds you can buy with the antibiotics and growth inhancers already added. We are getting to feel that it would be almost impossible to grow a beef to market weight without adding lots of artificial ingredients. This will be our last calf.
I remember my grandfather talking about the time U.S. Army troops showed up at his farm in Quay County, NM with an "authorization" to shoot his dairy herd. They did, and left.
Can't remember if it was the 1930's or 1940's.
I'm trying to contact my Father, and will post details when I can.
Am I the only one getting tired of republicans stabbing us in the back?
An understatement, I'm sure!
Raw, whole milk is healthy and beneficial, but pasteurized milk is an unnatural substance that wreaks havoc in our bodies, and is a big contributor to the development of insulin insensitivity, leading to diabetes.
We milked between 25 and 40 cows,Jerseys,Guernseys and Holsteins at the end.
The worst thing imo that happened to the family farm are subsidies,which of course encourage greater production.
That leads the processors and the haulers to try and force out the smaller producers as it is more profitable to fill a truck with one pick up than to have to travel many miles and get that truckload from 20 smaller pick ups.
Get bigger or get out is the usual option.
Sooner or later there is a fallout as supply outstrips demand as there is a guaranteed market(government).Than the price drops as the gov cuts back the subsidy to discourage production and the market can`t absorb the product without the government buying and stockpiling in the form of cheese.
The farm that is too close to the edge,often debt incurred while expanding at the wrong point of the cycle,goes out of business.
Supplies eventually catch up with demand and the whole thing starts all over again.
BTTT
I miss raw milk. It tastes nothing like what I have to buy in a store now.
The cream in the morning after the milk man would come would be floating at the top of the milk bottles.
I posted it to Chat Elk.
There is a moderator here at FR that takes Front Page posts and moves them to Blogger.
I found, if I just post to chat, they don't get moved.
I would rather have articles posted to Chat, that goes out on the RSS feed that people subscribe to.
If it gets moved to blogger, there is no RSS script reading.
I even got suspended from FR for 24 hours for posting 'too many' articles to Front Page news. And they were all ICE press releases.
How about trying goats then?
I think I need a Kleenex.
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Weird, isn't it.
I've found that the "extended news" checkbox keeps marginal stuff in the main forum sometimes.
In any event, thanks for posting this.
I hear ya, E-S. You're not alone.
"Altadena Dairy (So. Cal.) used to sell raw milk products years ago, but I guess they got hassled out of doing so, and now all their stuff is pasteurized."
They still make cheese from raw milk. I just bought some.
Nowadays it takes no more to become a Republican than to be an EnvironMentalist!!!
You just go down to Walgreen's and get a bottle of Johnson & Johnson's baby oil, open it up and pour it on your head and proclaim... "I'M A DANGED REPUBLICAN!!!"
Same process to become a "Conservative CA FReeper!!!"
"pasteurized milk is an unnatural substance that wreaks havoc in our bodies, and is a big contributor to the development of insulin insensitivity, leading to diabetes."
Consuming over 3 gallons of it a week for over 60 years (didn't consume quite that much before I was 8) I must be ready to die according to you.
That doesn't count the over a gallon of ice cream I eat each week.
What I meant was that both producers of bottled unpasturized milk could sell much more if they had it to sell. They are both enlarging their herds and operations. I.E. the (polite) demand of the customers, who are frequently unsupplied with as much milk as they want, outstrips the supply of the product. In time one hopes that the supply will grow to meet the (also growing) demand. The high prices now paid for raw milk products helps the two existing producers to capitalize expansion and hopefully will attract new producers.
I am not an economist and apologise if I abused the terms.
Can anyone tell me why milk is over $3.00 a gallon when gasoline is only at $2.20 a gallon and costs a hell of a lot more to produce? The DFA is complaining? We should complain.
I've been lucky too, with similar consumption much of my life, but many others are not so fortunate. Getting away with murder doesn't make it legal ;o)
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