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We operate a small cow and goat dairy. Our animals graze a rotation of pastures consisting of a mix of grasses and forage that thrive in our Missouri climate. Most of our cows and goats diet is made up of these grasses. When we are milking the cows they are given Chaffhaye, the goats are given Chaffhaye and Black Oil Sunflower Seeds (BOSS).
Both our cows and goats are milked using commercial grade stainless steel milking machines. We have a milk handling protocol that ensures that milk gets to you fresh and will not spoil quickly. All jars are hand-washed to ensure cleanliness, then machine-steam washed to ensure sanitization.
If there is one thing I want you to know about me and this dairy, it is that I am paranoid about what can go wrong when the wrong microbial life enters our food stream. We keep our customer list well below the production capacity of our animals to keep us out of compromising situations.
Ordering
All milk orders are taken by reservation on a first-come-first-serve basis. We can accommodate large, periodic orders for frequent customers. On-farm pickup is available while we have cows in lactation.
There is a $3 jar deposit for both gallon and 1/2 gallon jars. You may use your own jar for deposit if it is a wide mouth glass jar with no cracks, stains or chips.
2019 Prices
Cow’s Milk
$5/gallon on farm pickup.
Goat’s Milk
$4 per half gallon on farm pickup.
Our Animals
We have four milk cows which are not pedigreed. Two of our girls are Jerseys, one is a Brown Swiss and Peaches is…well, the least comely of them all. She is what we refer to as our Million Dollar milk cow because we think she gives the best milk and is our favorite. Penny is the darker brown colored Jersey, Sunny’s daughter Tempest is a lighter colored Jersey and Nellie is the Brown Swiss.
Our dairy goat herd is mostly the “ear-less” La Mancha with a one Nubian.
Our Feed Protocol
The overwhelming food-source for our dairy animals is pasture grass and forage (leaves and weeds) and free-choice loose minerals. Even though we do not treat our pastures chemically, we can’t claim to be organic because we occasionally resort to buying winter hay from people we don’t know. I tend to seek out like-minded people, but you never know. Both cows and goats also get a healthy portion of a GMO-free alfalfa product called ChaffHaye. It’s like crack. The goats also get a mix of Chaffhaye, oats and black oil sunflower seeds.