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Comment on Bull For Sale by Adam Cloke

Adam Cloke — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:13:02 +0000

Hi, I came across your website whilst searching for people who had crossed Lowlines with Dexters. We have 2 of only 3 Lowline Angus bulls in the UK and have put them on our 2 long legged Dexters. They both calved this week and gave us two healthy calfs, a heifer 18kg 18″ high out of our heifer and a bull calf 30kg and 23″ out of our 6yr old cow.
I would be really interested to hear how you are getting on with your lowline, what are the calfs like? How well does the meat sell and more importantly how does it taste? Ideally we would have liked to have pure Lowlines but it is not possible to import live animals and the cost of embryo transfer is £1500 per embryo! Which is out of our price range. What price do you get for your finished animals? Do you finish them totally on grass? What weight are they finished?
Sorry for asking so many questions but would really appreciate any information and advice you could offer. Many thanks, look forward to hearing from you,
Thanks Adam

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Comment on Raw Milk, Oh Baby! by Steven

Steven — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:54:07 +0000

So, what do you DO with the milk?
We take to back to the kitchen as quickly as possible and then strain it into a clean jar. You can use milk strainers and filters but we just bought some synthetic fabric from a fabric store that works as a very fine screen to remove hair or bits of stuff that fell in the milk. We usually fold the fabric so that the milk must pass through a few layers of it. We then move the clean milk to the freezer or an ice water bath as soon as possible to chill it. Chilling the milk keeps any bad bacteria from multiplying to a dangerous level.
We aren’t currently milking but we drink it whole or use a ladle to spoon off some cream and use the cream to make butter in our mixer. To make butter you basically just agitate the cream at room temp. and it starts to separate and bind to itself. I then use the mixers dough hooks to kneed the butter and squeeze out all the left over milk.

Hope this helps. If you’re looking for a milk cow I know where there is a Dexter/Jersey cross heifer for sale.

Comment on Raw Milk, Oh Baby! by Anna

Anna — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:28:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing your knowledge about Dexters. I’m a suburbanite-recently-turned-mini-farm-girl and I’ve been researching Dexters, but I’m embarassed to say that I don’t know what you do with the milk from the cow. Do you need to “process” the milk in any way before drinking it? And, do you use special “equipment” to separate the cream? Thanks for putting up with my newbie questions.

Comment on On Not Being Like Door-to-Door Meat Salesmen by Sherry

Sherry — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:45:43 +0000

How much do these guys actually make? What’s their “bottom dollar” on a box of steak?

Comment on Moving cows is the best! MiG by links for 2010-08-04 « brentcu

links for 2010-08-04 « brentcu — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:18:05 +0000

[...] Moving cows is the best! MiG | Franciscan Family Farms This is worth reading to see the changes in grass quality after running cows through the pasture and resting for 50 days. This is relevant because some of the new farm will be converted into temp pasture from other crops. And vines. (tags: Farm) [...]

Comment on Time Magazine on “The Grass-Fed Revolution” by Ray

Ray — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:42:43 +0000

The grassfed movement is definitely still going strong. This farm family is one example. Others are out there all across the United States. Kudos on including the link to the articles.

Comment on Martha Stewart – Praising Grass Fed? by Ray

Ray — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:39:25 +0000

So sorry that I missed that little bit, but I enjoyed the movie ‘Food, Inc.’ Of course I have long been a fan of Joel Salatin. Currently I am off the farm, but I am happy that breeding stock and at least somewhat the idea of helped a family of friends get going with pasture raised pork that they are now raising and selling at the local farmers markets. Thanks for having this information and the link available.

Comment on On Not Being Like Door-to-Door Meat Salesmen by Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:51:25 +0000

I took my kids to the local market to get some Ice Cream, When this asmall refrigarated truck pull up and was knocking at a door with a BOX,The driver came to me pitch me that he had this extra meat and was selling at a discounted price. He showed me a brochur and the price of what I call a case of steaks for $369.00 He gave me a price of $150.00 and I thought it was a pretty good deal.I just got home and started to google the company and finding out that these guys dont look to be so honestly.I just finished putting the meats away in my freezer, I dont know how I am going to explain to my wife that I just bought $150.. of meat from a guy selling out of his truck…

Comment on Time Magazine on “The Grass-Fed Revolution” by Chris

Chris — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:28:21 +0000

I figured out what happened, and edited the post to reflect that fact that you are correct… that article was in 2006. I had seen a post from our friends about a Time article on grass-fed beef, so I searched for it. When I found this one, I thought it was great, and didn’t think that there were *two* good articles about grass-fed beef in Time. So now I’ve linked to both. If you haven’t seen the other one, I’d suggest reading it as well. Very informative as well.