No,that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm talking about Michigan standards,not western feedlots. We all have building for these cattle to get in out of the weather. My fat cattle for example are all on concrete,as are those of anybody who wants to turn a profit. But what I am saying is that there would be absolutely NO advantage to scraping that concrete everyday. There isn't much danger that we're going to have a bacteria problem come milking time for a pen of steers. The mastitis count is a lot lower in these critters too.
I'm not trying to pick a fight with you,but I can tell you after a lifetime in the dairy business,my Dad and Grandad milking before me,if you ever sell those milk cows,it won't take very long for you to look at them through a whole different set of eyes. You don't know what a healthy animal is until you have a herd of mama cows that take care of themselves year in and year out with no human intervention whatsoever aside from feeding them in the winter.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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