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livelife
Farmgirl in Training

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Penny
Michigan
USA
45 Posts

Posted - Mar 20 2007 :  2:48:27 PM  Show Profile
I just can't shake this naggin feeling. You would think at my age it would be for grandkids but its not. I want, long, no.. pine for a cow!!!
Hubby just doesn't get it. I know on five acres I can't have one... but ohhh man I got it bad. I look at "chocolate" in the magazine and my heart starts to ache. Any remedies????

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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl

11381 Posts

Jenny
middle of Utah
USA
11381 Posts

Posted - Mar 20 2007 :  3:00:08 PM  Show Profile
Okay. I KNOW you can have a cow on 5 acres. I have one on much much much less land. I don't have pasture and have to provide hay and extras all year..but it is WAY worth it. I know that "pining for a cow" feeling. Go for it girl. I had to really do some talking to convince my husband too, but he is happy now with Mona now. Good luck!!!

Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl

6418 Posts

Mary Beth
Stanwood Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts

Posted - Mar 20 2007 :  4:36:27 PM  Show Profile
Penny, you can have a cow on 5 acres. We raised 2 and had horses too. and chickens and sheep and kids. We must of looked pretty packed. Listen to Aunt Jenny, she knows cows. Marybeth

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livelife
Farmgirl in Training

45 Posts

Penny
Michigan
USA
45 Posts

Posted - Mar 20 2007 :  4:54:09 PM  Show Profile
Marybeth & Aunt Jenny... How??? Is it a mini? I have looked into mini/lowline breeds. My Neighbors are the issue.. I live on a used to be dairy farm, land was sold off years ago (before we bought it) and I'm surrounded by development, "urbies" I call em. I have thought about boarding, but not being the actual owner. Then others could help with the cost but I'd get all the love!! I know sounds crazy. I'd like to hear more details, did you have to have a special permit or anything?

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LadyCrystal
True Blue Farmgirl

593 Posts

Alicia
Rhode Island
USA
593 Posts

Posted - Mar 20 2007 :  5:57:49 PM  Show Profile
I understand the wanting a cow.I wanted so bad and I finally got one. She is a sweet heart. I don't know if anyone else figured out how much it cost to raise one but when we had two it cost us 25 dollars a week.Now we trade labor for free hay and sialge so it doesn't cost us anything.
What is the zoning in your area? It couldn't hurt to find out. What kind of cow would you want? Good luck!
Alicia

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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl

11381 Posts

Jenny
middle of Utah
USA
11381 Posts

Posted - Mar 20 2007 :  6:23:58 PM  Show Profile
I think where you live would make a difference. I live in a very small town and my neighbors don't mind my cow. She is a regular jersey..not a mini at all. We have all sorts of animals here all over IN town though. Horses, chickens, even a water buffalo on the block behind us, sheep, goats etc. No pigs that I know of. Even MY neighbors wouldn't probably be THAT nice.
I have had Mona for about a year and 1/2 now. She is for sure my dream cow..as sweet as can be.
I would do like Alicia said and check the zoning. If it is developed heavily around you there might be limits. Darn. But you never know. It is sure worth a try.


Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl

1433 Posts

Talitha
Vermont
USA
1433 Posts

Posted - Mar 21 2007 :  01:29:15 AM  Show Profile  Click to see Buttercup's MSN Messenger address
Oh Penny,
I hope you can have one there! I hope to have one someday soon too! Jenny is awsome with what she has a does on a small piece of land, it is very inspiring! Do let us know what you find out!
Hugz!
Talitha


"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours"
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Horseyrider
True Blue Farmgirl

1045 Posts

Mary Ann
Illinois
1045 Posts

Posted - Mar 21 2007 :  08:17:13 AM  Show Profile
We also had a Jersey cow on five acres. And horses, and pigs, and chickens, too. We had to buy hay and use the pastures more as treats, but it worked fine. And with growing kids, we had plenty for milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, we vealed the bull calves, and fed excess milk to the pigs to make some of the tenderest pork around. It worked out great.

I agree that the zoning could be an issue; but if you're zoned ag, there's no reason (unless you're on the side of a sharp hill and can't have it grazed) that you couldn't keep a dairy cow on five acres.

Oh, and my hubby didn't get it either until he had a big homemade deep dish Chicago style pizza thick with homemade cheese stringing across his plate! That and a few dishes of the best danged ice cream you ever ate in your life, and that changed it for him.
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livelife
Farmgirl in Training

45 Posts

Penny
Michigan
USA
45 Posts

Posted - Mar 21 2007 :  6:55:34 PM  Show Profile
Yea, somehow someway...its gotta happen (Thanks ladies)

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