Pleasant Meadow Creamery

06/05/2026

Pleasant Meadow Creamery is a family-owned and operated dairy that produces high quality, low risk, A2A2 raw milk from grass-fed Guernsey cows in Sagle, Idaho since 2011.

We've been distributing our milk in glass bottles to stores in North Idaho since 2013, and today we expanded our distribution area to include Moscow and Lewiston.

You can order directly from us in those locations and meet us to get your Guernsey Goodness every Thursday.

The more customers who buy from us with a Lewiston, Clarkston, or more southerly address, the more likely we will establish a Lewiston meet and greet to add to our Moscow location.

We plan to serve these areas for many years to come and look forward to meeting you at a product delivery meet and greet soon!

Visit https://pleasantmeadowcreamery.com/shop to make your purchase.

This is where you can browse products in this store.

06/03/2026

Good morning from Sagle, Idaho this beautiful June 3 morning. Cows are out grazing before milking.

05/31/2026

Good morning from the creamery's hold area in Sagle, Idaho.

Today, we're milking 33 cows. We milk at 0800 and 1800 (6 PM).

The cows get brought in from the pastures just before milking and the hold area is their temporary waiting place prior to entering the milking parlor to be milked.

This week, Pleasant Meadow Creamery begins distribution to Moscow, Idaho (on Thursday June 4). This represents a significant expansion of our market area. We distribute product all the way north to Bonners Ferry, and now south to Moscow, and we will eventually add Lewiston as we build demand there.

The Moscow market gets to do something special - order directly from us through our website. This has the effect of reducing our retail price almost to wholesale.

We would be interested in hearing from our customers regarding buying directly from us with a Sandpoint pickup location. The advantage to you is you get a lower price. Of course, you have to order through our website (when we add the option) and you have to meet us at the designated pickup place and time.

Please message us, or comment on this post, if you think this would be an interesting option for you.

05/25/2026

This little cutie's name is Lilac. Pleasant Meadow Jrue Lilac to be exact.

Her mom is Lang Haven KK Loretta. The KK stands for Karate Kid. I have two really nice Karate Kid cows from Lang Haven. The other's name is Voltage.

Lilac was born 04/24, so today she is 31 days old. She has a sister named Lavender who is about 15 months older.

I like the strength of Lilac. She has a very visible frame, but is super strong and proportioned. When her front feet first showed at birth, I thought for sure she was going to be a bull, and thankfully she was a she!

At around 30 days old, we disbud our calves and take their picture, so that's what was happening with her today. Otherwise, she lives in group housing with calves up to 9 months old, grazes a pasture, eats grass/clover hay, and drinks three meals of Guernsey Goodness per day.

Interestingly, we do not grain our calves. In other words, they get no "starter". However, they also aren't weaned terribly early. Calves right up to 10 months old get up to 6 pints of whole milk in a bottle, three times per day. Some self-wean, and others probably wouldn't wean except we graduate them to the pre-bred and bred heifer group before 11 months old.

Our target age for breeding is right around 17 months old. Some breed a little sooner, and some a little later.

05/18/2026

Pleasant Meadow Creamery is pleased to announce our whole, raw/unpasteurized A2A2 Guernsey cow milk and cream in glass bottles is coming to Moscow, Idaho starting June 4.

Our whole, raw milk is available in glass half gallon and glass quart bottles. These bottles have a refundable bottle deposit that you get back or applied to your next purchase when you return them to us, rinsed.

In addition to milk, we also have heavy cream - which is at least 38% milk fat - in glass pint bottles.

We have been in the larger natural food and grocery stores of the three northern counties of Idaho for over a decade, and are glad to finally have grown to a size where we can begin bringing our product further south.

Even better, we are making this product available directly to you, without the middleman of a retail store. This brings it to you at a more affordable price and guarantees you will get what you want.

Deliveries will be made via a meet and greet pickup between 09:30 AM and 11:00 AM at 820 Dominion Way in Moscow every Thursday beginning June 4.

You can order product for the meet and greet pickup directly from our website. Click the link below for more information and direct links for ordering.

Our whole, raw milk is available in glass half gallon and glass quart bottles.  These bottles have a refundable bottle deposit that you get back or applied to your next purchase when you return them to us, rinsed.

05/06/2026

Campbells PMC Troublemaker Kyndal is a newly fresh heifer as of today.

Unlike most of our heifers, she took more than 3 AI tries to get pregnant, so ultimately she conceived to an Angus sire (as if this weren't obvious). We think this was probably due to timing issues. The heifers run in their own group, sometimes far away, and it can be sometimes difficult to catch them exactly spot on within a heat cycle.

Kyndal was showing some real fill to the udder in the last couple of days, and hadn't calved yet nor was she showing as close, so we ran her through the parlor this morning and, lo and behold, she had nearly 34 pounds of milk/colostrum, slightly blood-tinged from the udder edema.

Shortly thereafter, I noticed she was in stage 1 labor, and by 12:15, she had ejected the occupant: this Angus cross heifer.

The little girl is super vigorous and super cute and will be sold on Monday. Did you know baby calves are selling for a very nice price these days? This girl sure is. Buyers were lined up to commit to her. At our nearest livestock auction, baby calves have been selling between $850 and $1350.

Mom will be in the milking string tonight, and baby girl had stored colostrum from one of the last cows to calve since we didn't save any of this morning's 34 blood-tinged pounds.

We test every batch of stored colostrum using a Brix refractometer. A quality greater than 22% is considered excellent for feeding newborns and installing the necessary passive immunity they will need in the days to come.

Kyndal's mom was Kynzie, and she died of a tragic circumstance quite a while back, so we are very glad to have a Kyndal in the lineup. We think she's going to be a real star.

04/17/2026

We are really liking our April calvings. So far, the cows have chosen to calve in the early afternoon, which is easiest on the farmer, especially compared to say, middle of the night.

Today, it was Hot Lady giving us a new heifer.

Hot Lady calved in March 2023, March 2024, April 2025, and now April 2026 - her fourth calving.

She has had 4 heifers in her life, one before we bought her, and the subsequent three here.

Her first one here, Hot Baby, is due to calve this summer to sexed semen.

Her second calf here is Hot Tamale, due to turn one year old next week.

This is her third calf here - Hot Lips.

Hot Lady's mom is in our herd too, and he is the mother of not only Hot Lady, but also Hot Sauce and HotNSpicy (born in late February).

It's a real Hot family, don't you think?

04/14/2026

Bustle, the heifer, came into the parlor this morning for her dry cow mineral (and her training), and was spraying milk on the floor, so we knew some changes were happening in her body.

By the way, if you look at the profile photo for this page, that photo is Bustle as a heifer calf herself.

So, I kept my eye on her and by 1:45 PM she was standing out on the far side of a field with her tail out. Nothing was showing though other than that.

I decided I better go out and see if all was well and it didn't take even a full 15 minutes for me to see first half a calf and then a full calf on the ground. Very impressive for a first calf heifer!

The baby is a heifer (Bustle was bred sexed semen), and her name is Razzle.

Bustle's mom is Hustle. The next heifer in this family line will be Dazzle.

That's the scheme and we're sticking with it. If you can think of other interesting word combinations like this, drop them in the comments below. We suspect it could be a good cow family for us.

04/04/2026

Poor little Vintage, who was born on December 22, got herself in a pickle yesterday in a round bale feeder.

She managed to get herself stuck and all twisted up, and was well on her way to expiring when we discovered her.

We lifted the feeder, pulled her out, and got her to the hospital pen in the tractor bucket and got her all cleaned up.

With her head twisted the way it was, she wasn't able to burp off rumen gas and was bloating and suffocating for it while trapped, and she had probably exhausted herself trying to get out. Plus, she would have had high cortisol levels from the stress.

After being rescued, she was unable to get up on her feet on her own for the rest of the day, and spent at least an hour shivering as the stress left her body and she warmed back up and achieved homeostasis. Her jaw and neck ended up swelling quite a bit.

We gave her a shot of dexamethasone and took good care of her, helping her to her feet and getting her to her bottles of milk, and today she is looking very well.

We will likely put her back with her fellows at the end of the day.

We are very thankful to the Lord we found her when we did and not a minute later. We try to take good care of every critter under our stewardship.

03/30/2026

In this photo, we have Hot Pepper on the left, and Francine just to the right of her, along with two other cows.

Notice that Hot Pepper and Francine have sealed buckets below them and their milk is dropping into the buckets instead of going into the milk pipeline.

Notice also they have leg bands.

The leg bands identify them as needing to be bucket milked

Francine is newly fresh, meaning she just calved several days ago. She now has what is called transition milk. This milk only goes to calves and not for retail sale. On the fifth day of being fresh, we pull a sample and test it for coliforms in our on-farm lab. If it is clear of coliforms, then on the morning of the 6th day fresh, her milk goes into the pipeline.

Hot Pepper has a milk anomaly, not mastitis, that we picked up in our regular on-farm testing, and she is being treated holistically to clear it before her milk goes back in the tank.

At Pleasant Meadow Creamery, we test every batch of milk bottled to be sure it meets the highest standards for low risk raw milk for human consumption, and we have strict protocols in place to be sure the consumer only gets the best!