Yes, the photo below shows a handful of delicious bovine cuisine.......CORN SILAGE. The only ingredient you need to make this tasty dish is a field of corn, ripened until early September or so. You will also need a chopper, to chop up the entire corn plant.....stalks, leaves, and ears. What could be simpler than a one-ingredient recipe!
Once you have chopped your cornfield, place the chopped corn in the container shown in the next photo. Its called a silo, but actually its nothing more than a over-sized canning jar made of cement. The top will be sealed with plastic until you're ready to begin serving from this container. It will be simple to satisfy the appetite of your herd for several months if you use a container of this size.
As a gracious and considerate host, you will wish to provide variety in your herd's diet, possibly a daily serving of haylage (which is chopped hay, also stored in a silo), as shown below, garnished with a yummy vitamin and mineral supplement.
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Good luck with this recipe! Serve at the temperature of the day, and expect many, many COWmpliments!
Bon Appe-Teat!!
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8 comments:
Hi, Jeanelle. I found your blog through an author friend. My husband milked cows for 27 years. We're from Nebrasak.
You said something about the depths of depression but honestly, with milk cows, depression is just good sense don't you think?????
I like your blog. I've just read the first (most recent) post but I'll look around some more. How many cattle to you have?
Hi Mary,
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment! I'm really pondering over your saying that "with milk cows, depression is just good sense". I'm sure I'll agree, but you'll have to explain that a bit further to my slow brain!
We milk around 80 cows most of the time. As sole owner-operators, we're well-tied-down. Keeps us out of trouble, I guess!
Thanks again for visiting here!
Bon Appeteet indeed! too funny Jeannelle. Hope you got the email about the sidebar stuff. I've learned a tiny bit thruogh mostly trial and error and a few folks that have bothered to help me when I was stuck. Your site is looking pretty nifty!
We had about 80 cows too, when we finally sold out. Those cows supported our family for 27 years so we have some affection for them but my husband got very, very tired of the 2:30 am milkings.
I got a job when my baby went to high school, the youngest of four daughters, and he sold the cows and bought beef cattle, 120 angus cow/calf herd.
Do you milk too?
I mean you personally?
Well...Mary....when we first moved here to the home place, I did try to be a good dutiful dairy wife and actually do the milking. We have a stanchion barn, so you know what that's like, I'm sure. I often got kicked, and thus, I found working in between cows to be very stressful. After I had two more pregnancies, I made up my mind I would not milk anymore. I don't mind taking care of calves and scraping manure, and tractor driving, and anything else Husband might ask me to do, but I will NOT do the milking. That probably makes me a poor dairy wife, but that's the way it is. I've told Husband many times that he should have looked around a little more before he picked out someone to marry......there are some women who love to milk cows, but I'm not one of them. Maybe if we had a parlor......
Thanks for your comments! I'm going to visit your blog, too.
Sherry,
I'm going to work on the info you sent me. Tanya, the Dairy Wife, told me how to do a signature, so I just got done figuring that out.....I don't know how often I'll use it, but it was kind of fun seeing all the fonts. If you want the info, let me know.
Thanks always for reading and commenting. I like your new blog!!
I milked for the first year or two then when a baby was on the way Ivan said, "It just wouldn't be worth it if you got kicked."
Well, I was so on board with that I left skid marks on the driveway to the barn peeling outa there. :)
I never milked again. :)
I grew up on a dairy farm so I really did know my way around.
You've got a cool silo. We always did our sileage in a sileage pit. No fancy cement silos. :)
thanks for stopping by seekerville
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