Raw Milk Dairy Member News
February 4, 2010
Greetings from the Farm! We have lots of news to share . . .
Beef — Yesterday we decided to take two beef to the butcher. One is available to be sold as quarters/side/whole beef. These two beef were not raised at our farm, rather we decided to help market them for a neighbor. They are Angus cross and will make great beef.
The available beef was a larger animal, 1620 lbs. The price is $1.40 per pound based on live weight and you pay the butcher. So you could expect $567 for a quarter and approximately $100 for butchering that quarter; you should end up with about 150 lbs of meat.
Like ours, these beef are 100% grass fed. No antibiotics or hormones were ever used on these animals. Let me know if you have any questions.
Pork — We will be butchering pigs a week from today. I may have one pig that is not spoken for. Let me know if you are interested.
Science Experiments — This is too good not to share with you. Our daughter Meghan recently came home from school, where she is in Kindergarten, very excited about the upcoming science fair. Kres of course suggested that she do a milk experiment.
So, Grandma took her to the pet store and they purchased four mice. She put two in one habitat and two in another. Each day she fed two raw milk and the other two pasteurized milk — nothing else.
After 8 days the first pasteurized milk mouse died, about 8 hours later the second died. The raw milk mice continued to thrive on only raw milk until the science fair. They were on the exclusively raw milk diet for 16 days total.
It had quite an impact on my child. She went to school and told all of her friends and her teacher that the pasteurized milk at school was poisoning them! We had quite a conversation after that.
Spring Fever — The gals seem to have spring fever. They are roaming the pastures in search of green grass. We also have eight that we are expecting to calve by the end of the month. I hope this means they are signaling us that spring will be coming early! I know it means we’ll have lots of colostrums available later this month.
Farmigo —Trying to tackle the Quickbooks accounting system has been quite an undertaking. It seems to be working well, except that I’m losing sleep trying to keep up with it and I haven’t even started invoicing for extras. As such, we have decided to look at another option. Check out www.farmigo.com. This looks like the perfect solution for ordering, accounting and making sure we deliver everything that has been requested. Expect to hear more about this in a month or two.
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Thank you for your continued encouragement and patronage!