August 27, 2010
It’s easy these days to overlook the world around us. When we become so focused on our day-to-day lives, skim our surroundings, often the convenience of everyday items are taken for granted. But, there’s a relentless ability many of us gradually lose overtime: the power to ask how. Start with the kitchen and look in [...]
August 21, 2010
It’s 7:42 a.m. Tuesday morning. You slept through your alarm, half way to work you realize you forgot your coffee on the kitchen table, and by looking in the rear view window you see that your hair is a mess. At 8:07 a.m. you arrive at work seven minutes late. A bad start to the [...]
August 17, 2010
The key to milking is sanitation. Everything from the milking machines, to the bedding after milking, to the cow’s teats has to be clean to ensure quality milk and to prevent infections in the animals such as mastitis (a common bacterial infection of the teat). At Van Ryssel Dairy the cows are milked twice daily. [...]
August 6, 2010
It’s a boy! Well a bull calf any way. I had arrived early for my shift at work just in time to see two hooves sticking out the back end of the cow 1105. Right then, I grabbed my camera to capture the action. Fortunately, 1105 looked like she had everything under control and it [...]
July 10, 2010
I’d like to start off this blogging series with a dirty joke. What’s black, white, and bred over and over? A Holstein dairy cow! Actually, the real dirty part of the joke is that they never stop pooping. For those of you with dairy experience this may have been your first answer, but before my [...]