Milk For Sale...and other ramblings

I (Taylor, not Alesha) get several comments about how sure someone is that this milk cow thing CANNOT be profitable. I typically just shrug (sp?) my shoulders and let the conversation drop. I do not point out the fact that, assuming they can afford it, that if a man's wife were to ask for a new car, a horse, a vacation, etc., that the husband would likely find a way to give it to her. My wife happens to want a milk cow. She has wanted one for years. The fact the our milk cow actually produces something of value is, I think, a point of envy that some of my friends are trying to justify. :-p

Another point that I only recently realized is that many of the people who make such comments to me DON'T BUY MILK! Ok, maybe they buy a gallon of milk a week at most, but little do they realize that we easily go through 5-6 gallons of milk per week...and that was when we had to buy it and I rarely drank it even though I like it a lot. We also like yogourt, ice cream, butter, whipped cream, and cheese*; that is just a few things that we have been able to make using Annabelle's milk. I wonder if any of these "nay-sayers" have actually put the numbers to this???

From my estimates, it should be close to breaking even including the time involved, though it is hard to value time when Alesha is playing and experimenting with new things. From others who have gone before us, they have noted that a "family cow" is actually somewhat profitable.

I suppose that after all of this the bottom line is that we like our milk cow, Annabell, and that it is good enough for me to see that my wife is happy.


*Hopefully, Alesha will write about our cheese making adventures. She has gotten quite good at making a type of "farmer's cheese" that we like a lot.