When will my cow calve?? That's the question we asked each day for the past two weeks! Since Creme Brûlée had been impregnated through the use of Artificial Insemination (AI), we had a "due date" pinned down and in the calendar. Unfortunately, like humans, the due date doesn't tell you exactly when ...
Read More about When Will my Cow Calve?
Search Results for: cow
A Year with our Family Milk Cow
A few weekends ago we quietly celebrated a year with our sweet Jersey cow, Creme Brûlée. Becoming a new cow owner is like having a baby in that it really does take several months to get your bearing! And caring for a cow after many years of caring for goats was very much like having my second child; ...
Read More about A Year with our Family Milk Cow
Can I Afford to Buy a Family Milk Cow?
Can I afford to buy a family milk cow? We considered this question long and hard before we welcomed Creme Brulee, our Jersey milk cow, to our homestead three years ago.
I like getting real about money on the homestead, so I think it's important to publicly talk about the financial side of ...
Read More about Can I Afford to Buy a Family Milk Cow?
Welcoming our Homestead Cow
It's hard to express the excitement we feel at finally welcoming our new Homestead Cow, Creme Brulée. Having a dairy animal once again feels so right, so perfect for our little homestead, and yet it's been a long path to find the right cow, to create infrastructure for a cow, and to invest in a ...
Read More about Welcoming our Homestead Cow
What Every New Cow Owner Should Know…
I have some VERY, VERY exciting news (and I bet you can guess what it is!) - in a month's time, we are going to become first time cow owners! (Cue the excited squeal!) For months I've been connecting with an amazing farm that raises Jersey cows, waiting patiently to see if there would indeed be a ...
Read More about What Every New Cow Owner Should Know…
Homestead Dairy Cow Basics
The addition of animals to our off-grid home is what made our beautiful piece of land feel like a real homestead. Even before we moved onto our land, we raised 10 chicks, and we had a chicken coop set up before we had a house to live in! We keep a variety of animals for the joy and companionship ...
Read More about Homestead Dairy Cow Basics
