Happy Tuesday!
I was just thinking about how well the first fresheners
(first time milkers) are doing at milking time now. Occasionally one of them has a relapse, but
it so much better than it was there for a while. Anyway, this got me to thinking about
Airi. Have I ever told you about
Airi?
Airi is an absolutely drop dead gorgeous LaMancha girl that
came to us from Colorado about 2 ½ years ago.
If we are out in the field or in the barn, Airi is so sweet and
loving. She wants constant petting and will
rub and love on you until you are just about rubbed and loved out. After she had her first baby here we were so
excited to finally get to milk her because she is so beautiful and there was
lots of milk there. That feeling
continued………..until we actually did milk her.
She went into the milk barn fine.
She went up on the milk stand great.
We started milking her and OH MY GOODNESS! The rodeo was on!! She would kick and jump and literally stand
up on her front feet only with her back feet almost touching the ceiling. Honestly, it would take at least two of us to
milk her. One to milk and dodge the
stray foot aimed right at your head and the other to “try” to hold her legs so
that she couldn’t hit the afore mentioned head.
Now, we are either hopeful, stubborn or just plain dumb because we
endured this twice a day for two full milking seasons (a milking season is
generally 300 days). Well, Miss Airi
kidded this year and it was finally time to bring her to the milk stand. With a sense of dread, we brought her into
the milk barn. As we bring her up onto
the milk stand the dread heightens. We
finally get to the milking part and Queen Airi is a calm, well behaved little
angel. Each day when it is Airi’s turn
to milk, there is still some anxiety, but thus far she has been a very well
behaved little lady. I guess endurance
does pay off.
