Re: Vegans??

by AppleCheeks Sat 04 Jun 2016, 6:55 pm

goldfishfanforever wrote:I thought the only reason cows produced milk was because they have had a calf which is then ripped away from them so we get milk.

Yes and No. Yes because in most situations that is how people get their milk but no, because it isn't always. We use to have a house cow called Marmite, absolute darling of a cow, would mother absolutely anything. She produced a lot of milk and even with 4 calves on her, she would still have some left so we would milk her by hand.
We currently have a cow, Melrose, again she is an absolutely lovely cow but her udder gets far to big for the small calves she produces so we milk her daily to keep her udder to a size her calf can drink from.

by goldfishfanforever Sat 04 Jun 2016, 7:57 pm

AppleCheeks wrote:
goldfishfanforever wrote:I thought the only reason cows produced milk was because they have had a calf which is then ripped away from them so we get milk.
Yes and No. Yes because in most situations that is how people get their milk but no, because it isn't always. We use to have a house cow called Marmite, absolute darling of a cow, would mother absolutely anything. She produced a lot of milk and even with 4 calves on her, she would still have some left so we would milk her by hand.
We currently have a cow, Melrose, again she is an absolutely lovely cow but her udder gets far to big for the small calves she produces so we milk her daily to keep her udder to a size her calf can drink from.

I think that is reasonable but I'm pretty sure most supermarket producing farms don't do that.