Our dairy herd is gently growing: just these last few weeks we have had five births: 4 female calves which is good news for us, and one male. They all have names given by Hatice and Mehmet: the male is Cem, the others Ece, Eda, Seda, and Şule, all nice and simple. Nothing complicated like Claudia for goodness sake!
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| here are the babies .... |
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| Friend Susan feeding one of the newborn calves this weekend |
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| Susan and Ali bottlefeeding the calves |
Including the newborns, we now have 17 cows.
Until today that is: the phone rang about mid-morning to announce the birth of yet another calf – and yes it’s a girl! Yay! So without further ado we rushed off to inspect this new arrival....
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| mother and daughter, 3 hours after the birth and both doing fine |
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| the mother, no 75, enjoying extra nosh after her labours |
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| here are the other babies in their separate bit |
TT most certainly has his finger on the pulse of the cowshed and it is developing into a model little dairy. It now has electricity and running water heated by solar energy much to the wonder of the local villagers! Thus the principles of proper cleanliness and hygiene are being reinforced on the local front.
It all looks pretty good from what I can see. The cowshed roof is painted an ecologically pleasing pale green to blend in with the environment. The cows are in good health, maşallah, the vet visits regularly and gives them the thumbs up.
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| here is our cowshed just below the village of Paşaköy |
Mehmet and Hatice are doing a sterling job.
They live in this hilltop village of Paşaköy and the cows are nearby. We are just a bit further down towards the sea about 10 minutes away.
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| Paşaköy in the foreground with Assos behind and then the Greek island of Lesbos |
We are very enthusiastic about this project and with Mehmet and Hatice’s support, look forward to developing a very eco-friendly herd of milk-producing cows!
Beautiful - congratulations on the new arrivals, not long ago we were just across the bay on Cunda eating the best and freshest fish ever!
ReplyDeleteHi Barbara! We love Cunda! the weather has been unbelievably wet though ... thanks for yr congrats ...
DeleteHow I envy you your cows! We keep almost getting one again and then decide against it! Just too big a 365day responsibility unless you have really good help!
ReplyDeleteThere is so much you can do with the products...cheese, devonshire type cream, butter. And just the smell of cows is lovely!
yes, you are absolutely right: you do need help with something like this!! It's very physical - they are milked twice a day, the shed is cleaned out, etc etc!!!
DeleteAww, wow, what a lovely story. Looking forward to reading more updates on the cows and theirs and your progress. Not a bad view they've got, either. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, I call them cows with a view! It is all exciting stuff and we are learning all the time!
Deleteawwww....cute calves!
ReplyDeleteI remember being so upset with my parents when I was growing up because they wouldn't buy a calf for us to raise. Now you have a whole little herd to shelter. What fun!
ReplyDeleteHi Joyce and Michel! Thanks for coming by and checking out our cow story!!
ReplyDeleteOHHH I love cows.....this brings memories. My grandparents use to have a cow when they had a farm in the Niagara Falls area. Her name was Star...I was so upset when they sold the farm along with the cow, which was a long time ago when I was a lil' kid.
ReplyDeleteThis was such a nice post....you sure have lots of cows now.....are you going to keep them all? They are so cute that I couldn't part with them. Now you will have lots of fresh milk, that's for sure. Cute names for the cows.
thanks for sharing this post. :-)