Yay, more milk

The torture device has stayed on Bluebell so she is not drinking from Buttercup.

She seemed to give up quite quickly. Buttercup has a bit more milk for us now. We have been getting maybe a liter and a half each day. Which isn't much compared to how much milk she will have when she has just had a calf, but it is a lot 16 months after having the calf and a lot to have maintained all that time. I suspect Bluebell was getting a bit more than that as she suckled many times a day but we are only milking twice.

We will milk her for a few days - just for fun - and then let her dry up so she can put on a bit of weight before winter.

Not very clear picture, but you can see how much cream there is, this batch was nearly half cream, others are a lot less, it varies a lot.

I have made some very delicious ice cream and some yogurt - the yogurt is still being perfected.
It is so exciting milking our own cow. A shame we have to dry her up, but we also want to worm them and the wormer we have is not milk safe. We need to do it very soon so we can move them in to their new field as the one they are in is getting very low on grass.