Moooo

Yesterday was another exciting adventure as our fun Friday field trip took us to the Homeland Creamery in Julian.





We started off the morning with a hay ride tour of the farm.







Finley was excited about the tractor pulling us around and I swear he started mooing for the first time today as well!

What does a cow say? Mooooo!




Our tour guide taught us lots of fun facts about their farm. I was most impressed by the fact that their cows produce 8 gallons of milk a day! And that their milk goes from the cow to the store within 24 hrs! Now that is some fresh milk.
On site the creamery produces milk, ice cream, and butter.

Here is where they store corn to feed the cows.

They had other kinds of animals there too including a lama, chickens, a roster, and turkeys!

Here is where the cows come to get milked twice a day.

Each cow gets hooked up to a computer that knows how much that cow usually produces and whether or not to save some of the milk for her baby calf.

It will also dump all the milk if the cow is sick and on antibiotics.

Even though the creamery isn't officially certified organic - everything they produce is organic.

After our hay ride we were able to visit a baby calf.

Finley knows no fear when it comes to animals - he walked right up and tried to pet him!

In Finley's defense the calf was super cute and cuddly looking.





Then each child got to take a turn giving the calf her breakfast.
Man could she throw it back!



Addie decided to she was going to try her hand at being a milk maid.



Finley wasn't very interested in the fake cow, but we loved the real ones!
MOOOOO!
After the tour we each got to sample some of their homemade ice cream.
It was to die for! Vanilla ice cream has never tasted so good.
I just wish we lived closer so that we could enjoy it everyday.