Douglas Falls Creamery

Douglas Falls Creamery We offer raw whole milk from our Jersey cows and Alpine goats. When not on pasture, they are fed the

05/12/2026

Pauline is having her breakfast and the gander wanted to drive her away his family but he couldn't find a place to pinch her!

03/26/2026

Three little pigs wearing and drinking their milk. đŸ˜…

02/17/2026

Betty's two lambs are frisky today and since Polka doesn't like to get up because her old back injury has flared up, they think it is okay to climb on her.

We have two cows due any day now. This is Mindy and she's had two heifers so far....she's due today. Cocoa (not pictur...
02/17/2026

We have two cows due any day now. This is Mindy and she's had two heifers so far....she's due today. Cocoa (not pictured) was due over a week ago which makes us question whether we wrote down the dates right on her breeding but Blossom that calved back in the late fall also was after her due date (10 days). She's at about 292 days now.

Due dates are calculated on the average gestation of 283 days. Jerseys can calve a little earlier than other breeds and generally bull calves go a little over and heifer calves can be a little under. This seems to have run true here with exceptions of course.

Meanwhile we keep on checking for signs of calving (tail up, restless behavior like getting up and down, pawing the ground, straining, clear discharge, switching her feet back and forth on her back feet, going off and laying by herself and not chewing her cud, coming up to eat when fed but then going back to lay down besides the filling up of the udder and even dripping milk).

We take the calf as soon as it's born and bring it in the house to get completely dry and then milk the cow to get the first bottle for the baby. Once the calf is dry and fed, it will go out to the barn in one of the clean stalls where it will stay for the first few days before moving its own calf hut and pen.

The cow goes into the milking herd, right back into her old routine. Taking the calf before the cow and calf bond helps this process go pretty uneventful for them. Bonding doesn't end up happening even though the cow is drawn to lick the fluids off the calf and even the ground where she delivered the calf. We don't let that bonding process happen so we can bottle raise the baby and milk the cow.

Dairy cows can give much more milk than the calf needs and the most efficient way we have experienced to get the milk and tame the calf is to do it this way. Cows settle down with their herd mates and the calf does fine getting the bottle from us from the start.

Some of our top Jerseys give 8 gallons a day and a calf gets 1 gallon a day at first (and then works up to almost 2 by 4-8 weeks old, depending on size). We continue to bottle feed up to 6 months as long as we have plenty of milk (they really don't need milk past 4 months as long as they have grain and hay, some even wean at 2 months).

Lambs born this morning!! I had pulled Betty out of the flock and had her in front of the barn because she was limping....
02/11/2026

Lambs born this morning!! I had pulled Betty out of the flock and had her in front of the barn because she was limping. I checked and trimmed her feet and then noticed she she looked close to lambing (but it still could have been a week or so). I am glad I left her where she could get access to the barn because we discovered these lambs first thing! There was a third little ram lamb that didn't make it but the other ram and ewe lambs are doing good!

I (Angie) went down to a hay baler clinic near Rearden last week and then headed back to Spokane via Airway Heights and ...
02/03/2026

I (Angie) went down to a hay baler clinic near Rearden last week and then headed back to Spokane via Airway Heights and stopped to take a photo of these angus at sunset.

The Hutterite Brethern hosted the baler clinic and I was able to talk with one of the young men. He said that they have about 1k head of angus cattle and they raise potatoes for seed, canola, hay and grains (oats, barley and wheat) on about 10,000 acres just west of Spokane.

They (about 167 altogether in this colony) live in apartment-style buildings near the huge facility that the class was held in and they eat about 1 beef a month. The women prepare the food and they eat three meals a day in a cafteria as they live "commune style".

Our lunch was prepared and served by the Hutterite women with homemade cinnamon rolls offered at break.

What a unique and interesting way of life!

Address

493 Larsen Road
Colville, WA
99114

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 9pm
Tuesday 6am - 9pm
Wednesday 6am - 9pm
Thursday 6am - 9pm
Friday 6am - 9pm
Saturday 6am - 9pm
Sunday 7am - 9pm

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+15096845773

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