. A milk cow will bring so much
> to your life, I highly recommend it!!
The fences are just about all up, and a gate or two left to go but I've got
60 days to get the cows, need a herd of 10 to make it worthwhile (for the
taxman). Would really like to get a guinea Jersey cow, been looking into
that. Also been talking with some people about the (american-selected) Brown
Swiss. Milk fat, milk solids it all kinda new for me. As far a milking goes,
I'm sure we'll give it a try and see.(Having neighbors who are willing to
milk in our absence makes the proposition a little less scary) Seems to be
the thing the inner wind is pushing me towards. One thing is for sure, I
cant wait to have all that manure (my sand here in Florida can use it).
Its seems to me that Biodynamics is based on, revolves around - the cow.
(can't do it without it). Although there is talk about much great stuff on
the list, I rarely see information about cows. I guess it's easier to buy
preps...
My questions.
Does anyone have any references that might help a total novice (never owned
a cow before) raise and keep biodynamic bovine??
Also does anyone know the "half life" of Ivomec? With "my" raw manure
experiment some time ago, we built a wonderful dark soil, crumbly and
spongy, but NO worms (I guess that dairy I hauled from didn't like em). I
hope to be getting younger heifers that hopefully haven't been wormed yet,
but finding cattle owners who don't use chemical wormers is (let's just say)
hard. Is a cow treated with chemical wormers not 'usable'. Chemical wormers
don't 'compost out' do they?
Thanks in advance
Ed
