With a moo moo here and a moo moo there....

This post is definitely going to show what a city girl I am! Those of you who have ever been on a dairy farm or near one will probably think that this experience is the norm. Well, not for me! I have never been on a dairy farm! It's not that I don't enjoy farms, I just never had the opportunity to go to one. Adrianna's class took a field trip to one last week and at first I did not want to go but it turned out to be very fascinating! Yes, we have all seen cows, but it was so neat to see how they are used for just the thing that God made them for....in this case, MILK!

We went into the milking parlor first and immediately saw the back end of many cows just standing in a row. Their udders are cleaned off and then they are hooked up to the milking machine. This farm prides itself on having very sanitary conditions and very clean milk, which I'm sure most farms do! It was so cool to see the cows walk in single file and go right to their stall. I guess some of the cows even get upset if they are not in their right stall! Each cow is milking 3x a day and they each product 8 or 9 gallons a day. They once had a cow that produced 20 gallons in a day!
The girl giving the tour said that their farm has 1250 cows and they could produce enough milk to supply 4 meijer stores. It's somewhere around 16,000 gallons a day! Wow...

Next we went to the calf barn and saw some cute but not so little baby calves. We even got to feed them a bottle of water! They went nuts. Adrianna found a very thirsty one and it was slobbering all over everything because it couldn't get the water in fast enough!





This city girl even took a shot at it!








This little calf was born that morning! I didn't know this but females only produce milk after they have a baby. The baby is taken away right away but I never heard the reason why. Anyway...the male cows are sold to a beef farm.








Adrianna also got to have her first taste of chocolate milk! I know, I know, she has never had chocolate milk! Mainly because I didn't want her to just want the chocolate when she was little because it does taste so much better than white! And she is mildly allergic to it. She loved it of course!





After their snack they got to go in a hay maze and play in the corn pit. Such a fun day!

The only thing I didn't like was that we smelled like cow poo for the rest on the day and we were only there for 2 hours!