Koch's Back 40 Farm

09/20/2024

Super thankful for the rain this morning. I LOVE milking when it is raining. Our tin roof barn seems so cozy and protected and my dainty (read:spoiled) girls love to be inside munching hay out of the rain. Super peaceful way to start the day.

08/20/2024

Auggie and Amos are growing. We seem to be through the worst and Amos is getting stronger by the day!

08/11/2024

Ok. What a day. Mabel (who had a calf 36 hours ago) went down with milk fever this morning. She is FINALLY up and acting like we have corrected all of the metabolic craziness happening as her body went into milk-making mode. Poor babe was poked and drenched and prodded and fussed over all dang day. Thanking God and a fellow Facebook dairy farmer with loads of knowledge for helping us through this. We are exhausted but relieved.

08/10/2024

This week can freaking suck it!! Sunday started with MIL going into hospital and then onto hospice. My cow finally decided to calve on Friday- while I was at work and when I had to head out of town to help care for my daughter who had surgery. My MIL passed late last night and this morning my cow is down with milk fever and we found a beef calf out in the pasture that mom decided to abandon. So. Prayers would be appreciated as we continue to work on getting medicated and back on her feet. And prayers for our family as we take on having two tiny bottle calves. 😳

08/10/2024

Born August 9th and appropriately named August “Auggie”. Mabel (mom) and baby are doing well. He stood at 30 minutes old and was nursing within 2 hours. He is a little guy at 50 lbs. and has a perfect belt like his daddy, but he definitely has the sweet Jersey face. We. Are in love. 🐮❤️

08/09/2024

The calf has arrived! Welcome baby bull, Auggie. (God bless my son who caught it on video)

08/08/2024

Review of our new Melasty milker from Mitty Dairy Supply.

07/31/2024

This week started rough. We lost our dear sweet Eddie Van Bacon to an unknown illness. We got him at 7weeks and he was loved by everyone. He was the sweetest boar and gave us four perfect litters of piglets. He will be missed so much. Thankful for the years he was with us. Also thankful we were able to baby him and spoil him over the last week as we tried to nurse him back to health. He knew he was loved ❤️

07/25/2024

Mabel is getting ready for calving in a few weeks. This is how we prevent milk fever and get her ready for calving and milking.

07/10/2024

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07/07/2024

Day 5 of happy.

07/06/2024

Day 4- Happiness is having the best subdivision family with the best fireworks around!

07/05/2024

Dang it! I am a 30 days of happiness failure. So, here is a recap of days 1-3.

07/01/2024

Honey harvest underway. Brian was spinning out frames while I was finishing putting up tonight’s milking. Our kitchen was our promised land of milk and honey this evening. Giving thanks to Father God for making it all possible. ❤️❤️🐝🐮💒

06/07/2024

Ok. It has been a heck of a week. We moved milking up to 4:30am due to a change in my work hours and me needing to be on the road by 6:15am. So. Sleep deprived cause there is NO WAY our life allows for going to bed at 9pm. Then I try to break my arm (thankfully failed) by falling down stairs at work. The bruising on my arm and backside are impressive. The pump on our milker decided to stop working so I was hand milking for part of a milking. The flies here are a menace right now resulting in my arm being kicked due to a horse fly during milking. I almost threw up from the pain. But….it is finally Friday. Milking is done and one of my kids is springing for Chipotle. Ending this rough week thankful, blessed, and optimistic that next week will be better.

06/02/2024

Tell me you own a dairy cow without telling me you own a dairy cow…🤣

06/01/2024

Today is World Milk Day! Proud to be a part of the milk producing team and so in love with the girls who make it possible. So, big hugs and an extra treat for my sweet sweet parlor pals. 🐄🐮❤️

05/27/2024

She’s here!!! LadyMae arrived with quiet dignity today. She melded into her new herd seamlessly and was accepted immediately. I think Mabel our other Jersey was happy to have another Jersey join us. She was tired of being the smallest cow. 🤣

Note: this is not how we normally bring a new cow onto our farm. She was just vet checked and clear of all communicable diseases and is from just across town, so we did not do our usual quarantine period.

05/27/2024

Took some cajoling with treats and a bit of pushing on our part, but all three girls managed to figure out the new stanchion. Cows hate change. This was a big deal. My girls are awesome and tolerant of our evolving parlor. 🐮❤️

05/26/2024

Project weekend at the farm. When hubby has a three day weekend we tackle some bigger projects. First project nearly finished!! New milking stanchion. Hurray!!

05/24/2024

Things that make you go, hmmmmm🫤

05/08/2024

Guess what I’m up to….

05/03/2024

We would love to have you out to look at the space and answer any questions you may have. We will have on-site registration available!

04/17/2024

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