Monday, June 6, 2016

Wisconsin Dairy Farm Experience with Erin

    So... if you haven't seen my last blog, please do so.  Today, picture a fair-sized house in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Now, we go in a pickup truck to a dairy farm. My aunt & uncle know someone there named Asher. He was very nice and he gave us a tour of the massive cow complex! Whoa!

   Before Asher had come, we saw 2 little calves and many goats. It was sorta like a petting zoo! They licked your hands and toes, and tried to bite you! The next area was cow confusion!



    First, he opened up a big garage that reeked of manure. And what a sight! There was a row of over 3,000 cows, he told us! Asher told us to stay away from them, because most of them were scared
of us. After that, we got back in the pickup to a new area.

    The next area was a big circle where cows would walk into stalls and the staff would disinfect, clean, and make sure the cow was healthy by squirting a bit of milk out. Then they would actually be milked. After they were done, the cows would joyfully run and turn out of the stall back to their own stall. Asher brought us into the middle of the large circle and let us see the pipes where the milk would flow.    

   There were some big tanks filled with milk that would cool the milk. Then the milk would flow into a truck, which could hold 50,000 gallons of milk! Cool!

   Now, the last area is the funniest! We drove to this place where, in this lake thing, Asher said there were 23,000,000 gallons (23 million gallons) of manure in there! 23 million!

Well, that was a fun factory to go to, and now this blog is over. Thank you for reading this, and stay tuned for more blogs with Erin!

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