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The girls, as we like to call them, have a very good life. During our milking season, they are milked twice a day. They meet us at the gate for morning milking and then wander up through the oaks to the milking barn. We have a New Zealand-style milking barn which is open on three sides.
The girls look out over the ranch while being milked in our open-air barn.
After morning milking they hustle back down to the pastures where they are given a fresh paddock of cool season grasses and clover. They always have plenty of clean water, fresh air, and sunshine!
When they are full of grass and have taken a good drink they lay down to digest in the sun a while. The eating, drinking, resting, digesting pattern is repeated many times through out the day.
Jo, Alice, and Gwen at about 1 month old.
When time for evening milking rolls around they make their way back up the dairy barn. After evening milking, they are given yet another fresh paddock of pasture.
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