Thanks to Monique Max and I went on a little visit to the Konyn Dairy Farm in Escondido. It was actually pretty cool! For a person who drinks milk at every meal, to quench thirst and just because -- I could definitely appreciate all those mama cows. We went early in the morning before the heat set in and got to see all the baby cows and mama cows getting milked.
We even saw a baby cow that had been born two hours before we got there!
And Max loved when he got to go in and pet the day old babies. He was so gentle with them. He just kept petting and petting and letting them sniff his hand. It was really sweet to watch him.
At the end the kids got to slide down the huge feed mountains in the feed barns. They got filthy and dusty but it was so cool to watch them run up the barley and corn and cotton heaps and slide down on their bottoms. I was kinda sad we didn't get a milk or butter sample, but other than that it was totally awesome and I want to do it again soon!
These are all the delivery tools. And I don't mean milk man delivery tools. I mean baby cow delivery -- chains? UM -- SO grateful to be a human!
A sign inside the milking barn -- I really liked it!
Feeling the cold and warm pipes where the milk goes into the storage bins -- comes in warm straight from the cow, piped through cold coils and goes into the storage tanks cold where it becomes mostly butter.
The Konyns themselves -- husband and wife -- this farm has been in the Konyn family for generations.
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