Cool Rock Acres Dairy

Cool Rock Acres Dairy Founded in 2025 to offer farm fresh milk and milk products to the community

Don't mind my dog Snake photo bombing, she brought her ball over to Ellyn and asked to play. Such beautiful mornings we ...
05/13/2026

Don't mind my dog Snake photo bombing, she brought her ball over to Ellyn and asked to play.
Such beautiful mornings we have had this last week. I enjoy watching the sun rise through the barn door!

The up and down temperature changes are hard on cows, but poor Jenny is really suffering. Fresh cows, or, cows that jus...
05/13/2026

The up and down temperature changes are hard on cows, but poor Jenny is really suffering.
Fresh cows, or, cows that just had a baby, are just like any other mammal, they have a weakened immune system. This makes them more susceptible to illness. Jenny's little jersey body is fighting off pneumonia. We caught it pretty early and she is already doing better after just 2 days of antibiotics, but it will take weeks for hee to fully recover.
Cows cant talk so its up to us farmers to watch closely. There are always signs when a cow doesn't feel well, you just have to pay attention.
With Jenny, we saw a lack of milk, and fatigue. Immediately I grabbed a thermometer and stethoscope. Fresh cows are also prone to ruminating issues, but after seeing her temp and hearing her lungs we knew it was pneumonia.

05/13/2026

Occasionally we still raise calves for people.
Because some people know we are good at it 🥰
This little nugget Dumbo, tops the scale at maybe 60 #, and I think 10 # of that is ears!

We have a COW dairy. But when this sweet face came through the sale barn, and NO one, not even kill buyers wanted to bid...
05/12/2026

We have a COW dairy.
But when this sweet face came through the sale barn, and NO one, not even kill buyers wanted to bid on her, she ended up in the 199 pen.
The 199 pen are animals that "have no value." Deemed to be "lost causes."
Well, this goat was far from that. She came from a commercial dairy, so she had a huge udder! Sadly she had an injured leg at some point that fused funny, so she only walks on 3 legs. But she gets around just fine!
I saved the sale barn a bullet and took this goat home, about a month now we have had her.
"Toni" has transitioned well to a spoiled rescue goat. She is hand milked 2x a day and her milk is fed to calves, baby goats, cats, wherever the need is that day (she even nursed a calf for a while, but that calf was a bit too aggressive on her so we stopped that.)
This photo really says it all. During the day Toni is allowed out of her pen to wander. To "do goat things" as I say. Today she chose to just chill in the barn, and I simply had to share this photo.
Life is precious. And Toni has so much life left. I am glad we gave her a chance.

05/11/2026

Have not posted in a while, so much updating I should do! Its been so busy round here!
How about some fun!
Sally and Sophie are in the calving pen, due any time now. Sally is the Holstein and Sophie is the Swiss. Who do you think will pop first? Bonus points of you guess what s*x the baby will be! Sally is bred to a holstein bull, natural, Sophie was bred naturally to a simmetal bull.

My cows have class 🤌
03/29/2026

My cows have class 🤌

The results of our impromptu "maternity" photoshoot with our special girl Paisley. Paisley is the first cow I bought las...
03/22/2026

The results of our impromptu "maternity" photoshoot with our special girl Paisley.
Paisley is the first cow I bought last February before we were even shipping milk. She had just had a baby and was small, scrawny, scruffy and had a small udder and for whatever reason was taken to an auction where I found her. I bid against kill buyers to rescue her and she has been nothing short of one of the best purchases ive ever made.
Today is her due date, she is carrying a jersey cross calf. We do not know the s*x of her baby yet and by the looks of her udder this morning, she has a few days to go yet. This will be the first calf born on the farm from a breeding I picked out. I did not breed her, but there will soon be calves coming that I did do the breedings on 😀
Anyone want to take a guess what s*x her baby will be or when she will have it? Photos from today in comments.

03/22/2026

Before next winter we will be making some changes to the barn. Though we do not get many blizzards anymore, when we do, our overhang is no place for our soon to be mommas to have babies! This was what it looked like only halfway into our blizzard on Monday. We ended up calving the 3 mommas in the barn.

Doris of course waited till we were 8 inches into a white out blizzard to have her calf. And we had some complications. ...
03/22/2026

Doris of course waited till we were 8 inches into a white out blizzard to have her calf. And we had some complications. Baby was presenting upside down, which was very hard on mom. She was very willing however, to let me help her. I was able to get baby turned but she needed a great deal of help pushing. An unfortunate accident occurred and it resulted with baby girl we named Marie having a broken leg.
Marie and Doris are now 6 days post birth and doing VERY well. Marie will have a cast on for about a month, then a splint for another few weeks. She can now get up and down on her own and is very spunky. I have to keep reminding hee the vets orders of "limited movement" because all she wants to do is zoomies.
She will heal up just fine 🙂

03/22/2026

Celia was the first of 11 springing heifers to calve last week right before the big snow storm!
Meet Mandy, a HUGE and very leggy baby girl.
Celia was a great mom and baby girl is doing great.

03/22/2026

Another new record!! 6690 #
The breakdown puts us at a 56 # tank average, still lower than we were (62) but we have a few more cows making up the difference production wise.
Unfortunately the beginning of February we made some changes to their ration (feed) that should have been awesome, but for whatever reason my cows didn't care for the changes and drastically lost production. Here we are a month later on a steady incline.

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N1085 Groeler Road
Fort Atkinson, WI
53538

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