Madison 3-7 Oct

 

Happy Hour

we had a nice group

to hang out together

John is usually aware of a camera

we went to a sale, some cows were physically there

others were only on picture 

every animal was praised high

but it wasn't to interesting

so these people from our bus left for the show

two annimals later it was quite the bidding war

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Madison Oct 3-7

 

we went for a tour of a Rosendale Farm

no pictures allowed except for 2 places

group picture

there are 9 milk trucks loading, they have 13 full trucks a day

first stop was the just harvested pile of corn silage

the centre is 46' or 14 meters high

our tour guide and her boss

her husband and son were going up the pile 

to put more tires on, it takes a few days

so many tires, and this is the smaller pile

there's 100 acre of cement here where the barns

and feed are

they use a lot of custom work for field work

and manure hauling

next stop where we could take pictures is the parlour

they've started cross breeding with Jersey 

to get a smaller cow

the cows they show at Madison are at a different place

they've also recently started milking goats

22.000 of them

Madison Oct 3-7

 

most of the people from our bus

we went to the international lounge a few times

met some other international visitors

and had some coffee 

also a meal on Friday

one of the trips was shopping and to Olive Garden

to eat, but we couldn't find the new one

It would have helped if they'd taken down the old one

the first mall looked very deserted 

but was doing better according to some people

who worked there

The next try was some big stores and was much more 

attractive for shopping

Wisconsin Oct 3-7

 Walking the barns

over 2000 cows on site at the world dairy expo

cows are so well treated

this cow's name is June and she is 17 years old

she was born in the barn of Rob and Alice

who were in our bus on the same tour

June apperently loves to go to a show

a very content cow

on show day cows get washed (again)

and cared for so they look their very best

we saw someone putting tail extentions on a cow

then we saw this whole display

these cows all had monitors above them that 

gave more info about them

the cows have lots of space

and are well loved, 2 young people leaning / resting 

on them

for a while we talked to a man who is passionate 

about Brown Swiss cows, he also talked about 

his father being one of the founders of this show

and later in the big arena we saw him get an award 

Wisconsin Oct 3-7

 

this was a fun outing

we picked a steak from the refridgerator

and put it on the BBQ to cook it to your liking

great time for socializing around food

Wisconsin Oct 3-7

next tour is at Hoard's Dairyman

the magazine and the farm go together

we used to have a subscription, but we let it go

this time we did walk in the barn

feed pusher

it did leave a film on the floor

Guernsey is the cow of choice

holstein cows are used as recipients

Blue robots

what really surprised us was all these bags

no bunks for that much feed is interesting

This farm was run very different 

than the Crave brothers we saw earlier