Today I spent over 10 hours at the barn tending to the calves, treating a few sick cows, and even going inside milk tanks to really scrub them clean! Our milk tanks are cleaned daily using detergent and a special acid base solution to remove any calcium buildup and potential bacterial contaminants, but it is still important for us to scrub the walls by hand once in a while to ensure that the tanks remain as clean as possible. After all, no cleaning chemical can beat the strength doing it yourself! To do this, all we had to do was wait for our milk to be picked up in the milk truck and once the tank is empty we gave it a rinse and climbed inside with scrub brushes and cleaning supplies. We use Ridstone from DeLaval as a primary acid detergent to clean the mineral buildups. It was quite the exhausting, yet rewarding work day! I included a picture of our two milk tanks and there is a little tiny bit of milk that dripped onto the floor during collection, but do not fear! The floor is rinsed and hosed repeatedly throughout the day because, well... this is a farm, we get dirty so we are always cleaning!
Today we shipped 4,813 gallons of milk
Today there was one newborn heifer.
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