Re: Pls welcome Liz to our herd !

[Guest guest]

Hello Liz. I live south of Dahlonega, about a half hour from you. I am looking for milk too. Even thinking about buying a cow and keeping it on a neighbor's property. Maybe we can clabberate.

Bill

Hi Sara and List,My name is Liz Scherer, and I live north of Atlanta, GA, in the mountains(in a community called Big Canoe).

[Guest guest]

> Last time I had raw milk was 25 years ago, when I lived in Costa

Rica. My

> most memorable experience was drinking a half gallon of milk from a

high

> altitude farm with Jersey cows and a lush, thick, green carpet of

grass on

> the fertile slopes of a semi-dormant volcano. These cows produced a

very

> high percentage of fat (around 14%), and, oh, that milk was so

heavenly!

HOLY COW!!!! i've never heard of such a high butterfat content! i

think that jerseys typically run about 5% butterfat, give or take

(and holsteins much less). my god, i wonder if weston prices' milk

drinking groups were getting that high butterfat, such as the

loetschental valley folk? wow...i'm amazed and envious. i can't help

wondering why those jerseys and not others produce such a high

butterfat content...all i can think is that the soil fertility was

tremendous and the brix index (nutritional quality) of the milk was

off the charts compared to what we many of us may be getting. or

maybe this is just " normal " for isolated heirloom breeds?

suze

[Guest guest]

,

That was one of the special qualities of this farm. I knew then that Jerseys typically had 5 – 6% milkfat. This farm is cool to cold year round with most clear mornings having some frost. Being a tropical farm, but at high altitude, the temperature remains about the same all year. The two seasons are rainy and not-so-rainy. Most of the herd was Jerseys or Jersey mixes and the rest were just cows of nondescript ancestry. These cows were long- lived also. There was one that was 21 years old, had had 18 calves and was still producing milk and being milked twice a day. This farm produced such and unusual fat content that it was one of few that had a contract with a high-end ice cream company who would pay based on cream content (and would refuse milk under a certain percentage milkfat). Volcanic soils are of awesome fertility, which would also contribute to the quality of the milk. Incidentally, these cows were naturally free of brucellosis, since ticks couldn’t live at such high altitudes (due to the cold).

Liz

on 2/2/04 5:24 PM, Fisher at s.fisher22@... wrote:

> Last time I had raw milk was 25 years ago, when I lived in Costa

Rica. My

> most memorable experience was drinking a half gallon of milk from a

high

> altitude farm with Jersey cows and a lush, thick, green carpet of

grass on

> the fertile slopes of a semi-dormant volcano. These cows produced a

very

> high percentage of fat (around 14%), and, oh, that milk was so

heavenly!

HOLY COW!!!! i've never heard of such a high butterfat content! i

think that jerseys typically run about 5% butterfat, give or take

(and holsteins much less). my god, i wonder if weston prices' milk

drinking groups were getting that high butterfat, such as the

loetschental valley folk? wow...i'm amazed and envious. i can't help

wondering why those jerseys and not others produce such a high

butterfat content...all i can think is that the soil fertility was

tremendous and the brix index (nutritional quality) of the milk was

off the charts compared to what we many of us may be getting. or

maybe this is just " normal " for isolated heirloom breeds?

[Guest guest]

Hi Liz,

This is Lynn Razaitis from the Georgia WP group. I e-mailed you

about our milk co-op abd am glad to see you found this group also.

Welcome!

I was in Costa Rica one summer and had that milk if it's where I

think you're talking...Monteverde near the dairy. Wonderful stuff

but at the time I didn't know anything about raw milk and the fat

contents of it. I just remember thinking it was good. Too bad for

the lost learning opportunity!

I will certainly let you know if I hear anything about dairy up your

way. I'm going to the Ga Organics conference in a few weeks so maybe

there I can get some more contacts.

Take care

Lynn

>

> >> > Last time I had raw milk was 25 years ago, when I lived in

Costa

> > Rica. My

> >> > most memorable experience was drinking a half gallon of milk

from a

> > high

> >> > altitude farm with Jersey cows and a lush, thick, green

carpet of

> > grass on

> >> > the fertile slopes of a semi-dormant volcano. These cows

produced a

> > very

> >> > high percentage of fat (around 14%), and, oh, that milk was so

> > heavenly!

> >

> > HOLY COW!!!! i've never heard of such a high butterfat content! i

> > think that jerseys typically run about 5% butterfat, give or take

> > (and holsteins much less). my god, i wonder if weston prices'

milk

> > drinking groups were getting that high butterfat, such as the

> > loetschental valley folk? wow...i'm amazed and envious. i can't

help

> > wondering why those jerseys and not others produce such a high

> > butterfat content...all i can think is that the soil fertility

was

> > tremendous and the brix index (nutritional quality) of the milk

was

> > off the charts compared to what we many of us may be getting. or

> > maybe this is just " normal " for isolated heirloom breeds?

> >