So, I have a lot of plans for the fresh extra colostrum that Girl is producing, and while I like making the slow cooked cheese’s/puddings, the issues is that they are cooked and we lose so much of the best parts by using the heat, but on the other hand, finding a way to have it keep is really important as well.. some is being frozen for possible critter use, other is being kept to be used in soap making, some is being used for other things (future posts) but today to see how it would go, we made a nice little batch of fresh butter (DH’s first homemade butter ever)
As they say, shake, shake and shake that jar!
These top ones where taken in the house with the indoor lights on them, the bottom two were taken outside with natural light to give you the best chance of seeing just how amazing that butter looks and to compare the homemade with the store bought one.
Just another Day on the Farm 
Interesting comparison. Here’s another:
http://grassfood.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/colostrum-butter/
Just wondering why the calf wouldn’t be getting ALL the colostrum for her benefit….??? (ie. no milking Girl) Just wondering why you wouldn’t wait until after the true milk comes in to begin to milk Girl……???
I’m not a farmer but as a mother I know the full benefits of colostrum for newborns.
Thanks, I know you have your Farmgal reasons.
Hi GMB
The answer is because Glenda can’t drink it all, At a max Glenda can drink about a gallon of colostrum/milk as a young calf, and she is most likely not even drinking that much yet, more likely she is around two to three quarts a day right now, Girl is half Holstein and she has been breed to have lots of milk, after the calf drinks all she wants, we are getting another four to five gallons of milk or colostrum per day after the babies needs are meet.
If we didn’t milk girl out, she would be at risk of having udder issues, she needs to be milked out fully twice a day.
That extra four to five gallons (and it will be another few days before Girl settles down to her regular amounts, I can effect it to a point by how much grain I am willing to give her, I would like her to sit at four to six gallons a day ideally (far, far! less then what a dairy would want) that gives me two gallons of milk a day to feed Glenda for when she is big enough to go that high on it, with two to four gallons of milk for the house and farm uses.
While the dairy part of girl is high milk production with low cream, her beef half is lower milk but richer milk with lots of cream, she is averaging a quart of cream per milking, or two quarts of cream per day so far.