[Ag-eq] dairy cows

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Quoting Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>:

> I'm sorry for your loss.  She sounds like quite a chook.
> Could a hawk have got her?  At my folks' place in Montana, there's usually a
> hawk on the hunt.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jody Ianuzzi via
> Ag-eq
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 11:02 PM
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> Cc: Jody Ianuzzi
> Subject: [Ag-eq] Gabby
>
> Hello all,
>
> I don't think I told the story of Gabby the chicken.
>
> We had three chickens and this spring we got four chicks.  They grew up and
> joined the older chickens and all was fine until two of the babies
> disappeared.  Then two more disappeared a few days later.  I actually thought
> they might have gone to a neighbors since they heard their roosters crowing.
> Then two weeks ago I let the girls out in the morning and when I went to put
> them back in the coop at night my favorite chicken Gabby was gone.
>
> She was named Gabby because she was always talking.  She would come over to
> me and stand at my feet and cluck and cluck as if she was trying to tell me
> something.  She was such a character and a real part of the farm.  She was
> the leader of the group and where Gabby went the others would follow so it
> was easy to locate the group.
>
> Now she is gone and it is so quiet.  I keep the remaining chickens in the
> coop all the time so they don't disappear too.  I think they were really
> scared by the event because they stopped laying eggs and the one chicken just
> sits in the nesting box staring at the wall all day.
>
> Oh, the weird thing is that Gabby disappeared in the middle of the day and no
> one saw any scattered feathers or any sign of a preditor.  We do have fox,
> coyote and bob cats in the area but I didn't think they would grab a chicken
> in the middle of the day.
>
> Poor Gabby.  We miss you.
>
> JODY 🐺
> thunderwalker321 at gmail.com
>
> "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
> DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)
>
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Hello all:

I have some questions?

Has anyone ever owned dairy cows?

If so what breed?

I'm seriously thinking about purchasing a Jersey or Guernsey milk cow.

If anyone knows anything about dairy cows I would appreciate any and all
suggestions.

Thank you.

Nella