My hubby just floored me...says he wants a jersey cow.

[alforddm]

So, I posted awhile back about how hubby had finally reconciled himself to the rabbits.

We recently got chicks and are planning on getting a feeder hog this spring. Plus we started a big garden this spring as he's been helping. I had thought about getting a milk cow or goats but hadn't mentioned it to him as a just figured it would be a big NO!

This morning we were talking about everything and he laughed says "How long before you want a milk cow?" I laughed a bit and said I'd thought about it but hadn't mentioned it to him because I just figured he's say no. He then proceeds to tell me how he would love to have a jersey milk cow. How fresh milk is so much better and that homemade butter is just the best. :shock:

I almost fell out of my chair. So, I've spent the morning looking for cows. It will probably be a while before we get one but :shock: :shock:

We've been married for 19 years and it was only after I got rabbits that he showed any inclination at all to wanting homestead type animals. Now I'm the one worried about getting to much to fast....

Who woulda thunk it? Not only are rabbits enablers for other rabbits but for all kinds of farm animals....

 

[BlueHaven]

As long as he is not to much of a city boy and will help clean up after the cow, (which is a WHOLE other world from bunny berries), it will be ok. Its usually just manure smell that puts off most people from cows and pigs. If he has tasted raw milk and likes it, that would be another thing to try first. Its the necessary milking twice a day that really ties you down to a milk cow. The other animals can fare fine with just one feed a day if your need to be gone for a day, not so the cow.

 

[alforddm]

As long as he is not to much of a city boy and will help clean up after the cow, (which is a WHOLE other world from bunny berries), it will be ok. Its usually just manure smell that puts off most people from cows and pigs. If he has tasted raw milk and likes it, that would be another thing to try first. Its the necessary milking twice a day that really ties you down to a milk cow. The other animals can fare fine with just one feed a day if your need to be gone for a day, not so the cow.

We both grew up on farms and I've had horses the whole time we've been married. Which is why I never could understand his reluctance with the rabbits. I think it may have been the whole tied down thing and he finally decided "in for a penny in for a pound". :lol:

 

[MoonSpiritMom]

Jerseys! awesome cows! I don't have one though.. my husband prefers brown swiss.

We have brown swiss crosses (thats all you can get around here until you pay top dollar for registered pedigreed cows, which is great but we dont have plans on breeding show cows)

Anouk is Brown Swiss/Holstein who is almost 3 and had her first calf (a heifer) in Oct.
Rosalie is a Brown Swiss/Jersey who is about to be 4 and is close to having her 3rd calf any day now. (her first two calves were both bulls, she was bred to a Braunveih Bull last year so I'm hoping for a heifer)

Rosalie is a sweetheart, smart as a whip and a huge pig. She loves to eat.. and has gotten into the feed house many many times over the last 4 years, despite changing locks many many times. She just has a knack for getting in.

Anouk is more aloof. She's kind and sweet but would rather just hang with Rosalie then suck up for loves from us. Anouk is BEAUTIFUL though... she is the quintessential brown swiss in colouring.

Rosalie on the other hand... looks more like a jersey.. and if i hadn't watched her fall out of her brown swiss mother.. you would have never guessed she was one.

 

[wamplercathy]

Well here's hoping my hubby gets bit by the homestead bug. Every time I talk about new animals I get the :x :evil: :x face. Lol