11/10/2025
Our sweet pumpkin!
She had her baby (almost a month ago đ). I have been in the zone tending to baby and milking like crazy. Everyone is settling in the routine. The baby ended up being a bull calf and a brown Swiss⌠despite me believing it was going to be a full Jersey heifer! Pumpkin is a full Jersey cow, a full Jersey heifer would have been more valuable to us. I couldnât help but be a little disappointed, but Iâm happy he is healthy and they both have done so well!
I so happy to have milk for our family again, and the endless cream for my coffee! Dairy cows are so much work, likely one of the more time consuming things I do, but they are worth their weight in gold. She is the queen of the farm! She not only feeds our family, but the chickens and pigs as well. Any of the skim milk (milk left after I take all the cream), goes to the chickens or pigs, which really does help cut down on feed costs.
She is the sweetest cow I have ever been around, hence her name, sweet as pumpkin pie! I genuinely love the time I spend with her, she is part of the family! Congratulations to our girl and her sweet calf â¤ď¸