Guest guest Posted March 14, 2002 Report Share Posted March 14, 2002 I have a 42 acre farm with 5 protected cows, in Bangor,Pa, 70 miles from NYC. I am looking for a working partner to start a dairy and farm operations. If any one is interested, please write or call 610 599 8824. Sankar Try FREE Mail - the world's greatest free email! / Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2002 Report Share Posted March 14, 2002 Three questions: 1. How big an operation do you envision -- how many cows? 2. What do you plan to do with your bull calves? 3. Have you read the online version of the Minimum Cow Protection Standards created by the ISKCON Ministry of Cow Protection and Agriculture, and passed by the GBC in 1998? your servant, Hare Krsna dasi S S wrote: > I have a 42 acre farm with 5 protected cows, in > Bangor,Pa, 70 miles from NYC. I am looking for a > working partner to start a dairy and farm operations. > If any one is interested, please write or call 610 599 > 8824. Sankar > > > > Try FREE Mail - the world's greatest free email! > / -- Noma Petroff Academic Department Coordinator BOWDOIN COLLEGE Department of Theater & Dance 9100 College Station Brunswick ME 04011-8491 Phone: (207) 725-3663 FAX: (207) 725-3372 http://academic.bowdoin.edu/theaterdance/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 14, 2002 Report Share Posted March 14, 2002 Usually cows and bulls are born 50/50. Initially, you might buy lactating cows. That's probably more expensive than buying a cow or heifer and then breeding her. Let's say that you bought 30 cows for milking. You bred them. You got 15 heifer calves and 15 bull calves. The math comes out a little different than what you have projected below -- and this is generally the critical weak link in plans about setting up a commercial dairy farm with protected cows. People usually forget that they have to figure out what to do with all the bulls -- which will be basically 50% of the herd. The cow protection standards are on the ISCOWP website. (Just ignore everything that pertains to bureaucracy, since you are not an ISKCON farm.) http://www.iscowp.com/ I think you'll find these helpful. your servant, Hare Krsna dasi S S wrote: > I expect 30 - 40 cows and 6-10 oxen. The bull cows > will be turned into oxen. The cow's milk and farm > income will be used to run the operations. Can you > tell me the link to the site for online version of > minimum cow protection. Thank you for your interest. > Sankar > --- "Noma T. Petroff" <npetroff (AT) bowdoin (DOT) edu> wrote: > > Three questions: > > > > 1. How big an operation do you envision -- how many > > cows? > > > > 2. What do you plan to do with your bull calves? > > > > 3. Have you read the online version of the Minimum > > Cow Protection > > Standards created by the ISKCON Ministry of Cow > > Protection and > > Agriculture, and passed by the GBC in 1998? > > > > your servant, > > > > Hare Krsna dasi > > > > > > > > S S wrote: > > > > > I have a 42 acre farm with 5 protected cows, in > > > Bangor,Pa, 70 miles from NYC. I am looking for a > > > working partner to start a dairy and farm > > operations. > > > If any one is interested, please write or call 610 > > 599 > > > 8824. Sankar > > > > > > > > > > > > Try FREE Mail - the world's greatest free > > email! > > > / > > > > -- > > Noma Petroff > > Academic Department Coordinator > > BOWDOIN COLLEGE > > Department of Theater & Dance > > 9100 College Station > > Brunswick ME 04011-8491 > > > > Phone: (207) 725-3663 > > FAX: (207) 725-3372 > > > > http://academic.bowdoin.edu/theaterdance/ > > > > > > > > Sports - live college hoops coverage > http://sports./ -- Noma Petroff Academic Department Coordinator BOWDOIN COLLEGE Department of Theater & Dance 9100 College Station Brunswick ME 04011-8491 Phone: (207) 725-3663 FAX: (207) 725-3372 http://academic.bowdoin.edu/theaterdance/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2002 Report Share Posted March 17, 2002 > S S wrote: > > > I expect 30 - 40 cows and 6-10 oxen. The bull cows > > will be turned into oxen. The cow's milk and farm > > income will be used to run the operations. This has not worked anywhere in the longterm. It is fine for 5 or 10 years max then collapses under weight of acumulated nonlactating animals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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