The Poultry Keeper

stephen · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

debcat · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:01 pm Post subject:

CP · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

poultry poofs · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject:

Farm near us has some Bison and they are nice,would love to taste the meat.
rich

Heather · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject:

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2132 Location: North Cornwall

I'd go for the Jersey, but goats would be a close second if I couldn't have first choice. Think of all that lovely butter and cream and all the things that can be made from the two Very Happy

I think if you are worried about too much cholesterol you could always do more manual work like our grandparents did. Wink

About feeding spare milk to other stock, I have some old smallholder books, printed about the turn of the century and some of the practices in them would make your hair curl. In one picture a poor tethered cow with a very sad look on her face is being suckled by two lambs. For some reason I find it a bit yukky Sad

In a bottle it would be ok, but straight from the cow, Yuk

poultry poofs · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:15 am Post subject:

The green top un-pasteurised milk is best but there are moves to try and stamp it out because it MIGHT make us ill.Its OK to poison our water with Chlorine and Fluoride though so I guess our betters must know best!

I drink Jersey milk everyday providing I can get it,it improves cooking flavours no end too.
As for colesterol,I'm fed up of being told whats good and bad for you.
If you are at risk then fair enough cut it down but why worry about a natural occurring ingredient in your food when there are hundreds of potentially poisonous additives that we are exposed to in our food that we are not told whether they will harm us or not and which are routinely added to it.

rich

Heather · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:30 am Post subject:

Well said, Rich !

they keep trying to stamp out the green top milk, if they ever do make it illegal to sell I can see us going the way of the States with people buying shares in a cow and then getting the milk for free Wink

- one way to get around it I suppose. But it'll be fought all the way first !!!

If you do a google for benefits of Raw milk therte are so many interesting things that come up about it !

Most cases of food poisoning etc have come from Pasteurised milk - that hasn't been treated properly !

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

I use green top whenever I go to my Dad's, (although we do get fake milk for Pat)

My Dad's drank it all his life and it didn't prevent him from having a heart attack Sad

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7164 Location: isle of lewis

what local breeds of cow are there
suz

CP · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:43 am Post subject:

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

nah,
lol
Just call pasturised cows milk fake as it tastes nothing like the real stuff ! Smile

CP · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject:

When my friends had their dairy heard, she was advised by her doctor to buy semi-skimmed milk to feed her baby as she was getting too fat on her home produced cows milk! Rolling Eyes

It tasted wonderful - not had any like it since. Sad

poultry poofs · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject:

Most milk is white water now its had all the cream and fat removed boiled and the correct amount of pulverised(so it doesnt sit on the top) cream fat for the type of milk readded ,In semi-skimmed its around 3%.Most of the milk is also blended with milk from Eastern European farms.In reality it bears no relation to the stuff that comes from the cow.
Jersey Milk is still available but health authorities are trying to squeeze it out as its dangerous!The Only full cream milk available in this country according to the CO-OP head office is the Jersey Milk,I checked when they refused to stock it as "they only had a limited number of interested customers and it wasnt worth their while".So I told them it wasnt worth my while buying my milk from them and changed to a local milkman who does take the trouble to get it.
Tesco used to stock it then withdrew it near here and I complained to their head office I see its now back on the shelf but I doubt its anything I said.
I am sure if people were given the choice they would buy green top too.
The whole reason milk was pasteurised in the first place was because farm hygeine was so appalling in the past and introduced all sorts of bacteria.Most dairy farms now you could eat your dinner off the dairy floor.As usual the Nanny state intervenes.My mates farming always say when the Jersey is no longer available it will be time to buy your own cow and share the milk.

NannyP · Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

You'll need high fat milk to help you keep warm Very Happy