My grandmother lives in a remote rural village in Central-Anatolia (Turkey); she keeps around four milking cows and used to milk them by hand until we bought her a milking machine in 2009. Me and all my cousins gathered in the barn and watched the milking process from beginning to end (because we were all city children 🙄)! my grandmother also has many dairy sheep which she milks by hand and makes delicious cheese of their milk.. It is very heartwarming to see homesteaders like you that live this idyllic rural live ... 👏🏻 greetings from the Netherlands.

People complain that the calf isn't on the cow all the time? Wild! You have a fabulous and completely respectful relationship with your animals. I really enjoyed this video.

Back in the old days dairy maids used to milk several cows a day! Good job milking your cow. From childhood to my mid 30's I used to drink Jersey milk, the best stuff there is. I miss it bigly.

I'm a first time mom. I wasn't producing enough milk for my daughter. EVERYTHING made her sick and she was losing weight till I found an A2 milk formula. The difference was night and day. My husband and Mother in law are also now able to drink milk for the first time in over 10 years after we found out about A2

Thank you for your great post. I grew up milking seven jersey cows twice a day. They produce rich good tasting milk and are gentle cows.

I grew up milking cows. Holstein, Guernsey, and Brown Swiss. A tip on your milking technic - learn to milk using your entire hand. It emulates the same method the calf uses to a degree. It will be more comfortable, and once the forearm and hand is conditioned your endurance will improve. This will shorten your milking time or you may just find that you can milk her dry and feed the calf from a bucket hence the expression (Bucket Calf). After a while you will find you have an iron grip.

You guys are such an inspiration to Carol and I.....we are loving all the learning.

I've had dairy goats for years, I have a mini jersey now and I love her so much. We love the extra milk to make fun things.

Thank y'all for sharing!

Loving this series! I can’t wait till we get our cow. Thank you for all the great information and help.

cows are cool , I like how they know when they get milked and they run into the milking shed

You speak so clearly about why milking is best for both and your cow.

Graet job!! We have a dairy farm and I love watching folks have a family cow. I have been talking of getting a mini jersey with A2A2 milk for a year now for our own use. We are breading all A2A2 into our herd ( I’m impatient and want it sooner). You guys had so much good and true information, and I do it for a living so my hat off to you guys for being true!! That speaks volumes!!! I completely agree that any live stock is a life style change but a dairy animal means you have to be home to milk every single day and for my big milkers twice a day. Have a very blessed year!! Y’all are doing great!!

Seriously loving all these dairy cow videos coming out ☺️ Just got my own two Jersey Milkers and I’m thrilled! Breeding for A2A2 from their calves, as they are A1A2. Thanks so much for sharing all that you do!

great video for us homesteaders

Yall are adorable!!! I loved the Downton Abbey reference in the other video. Hubby and I loved Downton!! Beautiful family, husband and wife who work well together. Many blessings to you!

I think this was a great idea.. To see how people do things differently and why. It really opens your eyes to what it takes in having a family cow. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day.

Happy to find your channel. Fond memories of our Jersey.

I shared this as my favorite. It was very informative as we had been learning all we can before getting our mini. I wanted to pick your Ladybug ones right now because we learned so much from them too but with a sad outcome. Thank you for sharing your struggles along with your successes.

Love learning about Lady Bug

I appreciate how detailed you showed the milking process. I tried to milk a cow when I was about 7, I didn’t get milk, just a kick from the poor cow. I want to thank you for being so open and honest with the down side as well as the benefits. We’ve been talking about getting a dairy animal, this clinches the cow over goat. Not sure we’re ready for the daily routine though, calf sharing is not a given. Subscribed during the first video I watched a few days ago, 😁

Fantastic, informative, and inspirational! It's one of my goals to own a mini Jersey on my own homestead! Thank you, much love from California!!

I love how real y'all are! 😆 It's so refreshing

My 7 year old son and two daughters are binge watching your videos with me while I edit a few hundred wedding photos....and they say to me, "Mom, I really like these videos. You should subscribe to their channel." I whole heartedly agreed and clicked on the button.

Thank you for sharing! Can't wait to have our own milk cow. Love love love your videos!!

Grew up on Jersey milk. Tell you the biggest difference, I've never broke anything but a toes, my kids grew up on store milk, we wont discuss the ER Bills.

Great video, you truly do love homesteading

Really enjoying the videos! One more from 1000's of Roots! This subject is fascinating to me! Thank you for putting the time into it.

thank you for sharing. I sure like your approach to teaching what the experience is like.

Lots of good new info. Thanks!

Very informative and she looks really good. Thanks and blessings to your journey

Loved the information in your video. Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed watching the process, too.

Great information. Great job on the whole thing, starry to finish. Most ppl I know have neverrrrr even heard of A2-A2! So glad Luna is better too.

Great information. Thanks for sharing.

I just purchased a Jersey mid and also A2A2 milk. She joins our farm on Aug 2nd I cant wait.

Enjoyed your video. My dad always kept two Holsteins and let them dry up in January (bitter cold in SD!) God bless!

Good information and explinations of your routine. Thanks.

Learning so much!

Love learning from you both! Great source for knowledge and looks like fun and lots of hard work!

I love this ... especially since I’ll be adding several Miniature Jersey Cows to my farm 🐄 🐮

Love your videos, I learned so much! Please keep them coming!

Excellent job

Great information! I am now looking to add a milk cow to my little homestead. This may be the one for me.

Wow! Great video! Very informative. Y'all take pride in your homestead and animals, it shows! Thank you for the video. Blessings to all💕🙏

Thank you

This is the best home milking advice I have ever seen! My husband is a dairy vet and I am a milk quality technician, good job!

love love loved this video!!! so informative!

Cool! I had googled the mini moos before because it seemed to make sense that if a regular cow made too much milk that a smaller one might be just right. Happy to see the theory in action. I have never heard of a2a2 milk but will be googling that as well. There are a number of people in my family that have trouble tolerating dairy. Thanks Homesteady!

I love to have the time to have a milk cow. I work 10 to 12 hours per day though. I'm 44 yo and remember my grandmother milking her Jersey.

So informative, thank you for sharing! It was tremendously helpful.

Y'all are an adorable couple. This video was so helpful, thanks for the info!

Thanks for the info!

I love watching your videos, please keep them coming.

I have watched the 3 videos in this cow-laboration so far, and I have learned new information on all of them. I love your cow. Her markings are so cute. She looks like she has make-up on. Thank you for sharing this video. Love it.

So informative. Thanks

Great video. So much good information. Thank you. Blessings...

This was incredibly helpful, our homestead is starting up and we have got a couple of cows including a pregnant Jersey. She’s due soon, so we’re learning as much as possible!

We added a mini dexter bull and a dexter jersey cross cow to our farm.

Great video thank you so much wonderful information. The cows look great.

Loving this video, very instructional , you guys together are so cuuuute.

Lol! You just reminded me I forgot to finish my butter last night before I fell asleep - in the chair, lol! Shoot! It's still in the whipper. Lol! *Forehead slap*

I liked what Kay said about Agriculture. Thanks for the great video. Beautiful cows.

Great point regarding being home to milk every day. Even though we are semi-retired, it is more practical for us to raise our Polled Herefords at this point.Once my brother-in-law, my husband and I truly retire, then I can stay home...I'm hoping to have a standard Jersey. Love the richness of Jersey milk! We have all the equipment in storage, from when my father-in- law ran a dairy business. Thank you for talking about A2 milk.

Very interesting thanks!

Great video! I learned so much, and really enjoyable to watch!

Love this video and am very interested in purchasing a mini jersey cow for milk and breeding too! Thank you for sharing your experiences and great information!

I am so happy to have just found your channel! Great video!

That was awesome!!

Thanks for the great information. We have wanted a dairy cow and my husband wanted me to find out more about the smaller jerseys. I love your videos and have learned a lot. “Is that cow poop on your hand?” Lol. Sounds like home.

Love your comment on agriculture & nature/wild.

My aunt Bridget has normal size jerseys, and GREAT JOB guys. 👍🏻

Very informative video! We really learned from ya'll. Thank you!

This was just great!

Love ur kitchen curtains

Good info Thank You!

Great video!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love it!

I had the opportunity to drink milk that WAS NOT process and it was just cow milk and let me just say ITS AMAZING

Thanks for posting! I have been investigating mini jersey and am seriously considering getting one on my homestead. I've had dairy goats but think this might be a better fit for me if I want to continue dairy production here.

I love the calibrations educational topics that include the positive & negative to consider before jumping in. Not only do we all learn its very helpful finding the other diy homesteaders. Kinda funny cuz after living in this area 20yrs as a single parent not sucking the system applying for jobs that pay a living wage never got me out of minimum wage that only give part time to maneuver all the discounts a business can. I did strange things like trim yards for free using the trimmings to make starter plants & sale them for $1.00 at the farmers market. I would ask other vendors how to questions all saying no they can't share info or they will lose profit with competition. They kept asking me to join there business meetings saying my creativity would be helpful. So i finely did. They wanted my creativity to help them get more people buying cuz most just come and look listing to free live music. Lol I'm a brutal honest type and they didn't like hearing markets are known for good money saving and locally grown. We even have a grocery store that has there own farm so why would anyone pay these hi price's when they can get 3 for a $1.00. So funny they voted in rules like every vendor has to sale different stuff so there is only one choice. Once your in if you bring overload from your garden that some one else already sales you have to put the same hi dollar price to stop the undercutting problem. Also no more free even if it's produce on its last leg. Lol i politely left are market to do full time house cleaning with undercutting the price of cleaning companies. That slowly turned into care giving cuz inc companies stopped paying convalescent care for any one not on state assistance and they have to sign over all things of value. Its called estate recovery. Now the market people need me to care for there parents cuz I'm affordable and the top word of mouth quality. No I'm not even trained no schooling nothing. The older generation is scratch eachothers back that's now called win win. We are like minded. I work with them cooking and cleaning the way they have always done it. I don't go in and do things my way. By the time there short term memory is gone I'm doing what there long term memory knows that helps the confusion that makes them fight & fuss. When the body stops eating I've learned there favorite food plus i give small plates not forcing large amounts. You tube helped me learn not all people are like this area might be the majority but not everyone. Plus how to find property with a below poverty income. Collaboration helps me to fill in the blanks and make a plan that will work for me. Setting things up ready for old age. As the people in this area come asking my help so they don't lose there inheritance i get happy for the opportunity to see there day to day. I'm sharply told no they can not help others because its to hard for farmers to make a living if more people learn they will go broke. So i keep telling yt'ers they are saving lives now this is detailed of how. Without modern day homesteaders making a few bucks for allot of video making work people like me are going homeless. I always hit the like and share all video's that match a person i know learning that topic. It helps them you and myself with a simple pass it on that grew America. Now fear and greed is making a new homeless problem that has nothing to do with drugs, alcohol or bad choices. After 20yrs im very well known liked and highly respected in an area of strict regulations and one of the highest price realistate markets. Ya tons of born and raised Oregon moving out and California moving in. This is the 3rd time I've seen this in my life time. Thanks to modern day homesteading and you tube its the first time I've had the joy of hope in hard times. Thank you all for trying to survive in way that is truly saving lives. Lol now the google problem is growing patrons so I'm very grateful for the calibrations helping new yt'ers grow themselves big enough to get that problem. Again its the win win that bought America out of the grate depression after the same mindset grew America in the first place. My point is even the good parts of history do repeat its self we just don't talk about it like we do the bad parts of history. Thank you all cuz my creativity will be referring this calibration to my long comment hear. I hope it gives you a few more views as i save time for land surching.

Learning from the best mentor

I love your videos and especially ones like this! More videos about your cow please!

Really enjoyed This!

just found y'all thru Big Family Homestead... can't wait to watch all your video's. :)

Great video, you make it soooo tempting to get that milk cow!!!

Sooo true nothing like Jersey cows milk! I remember sitting in the milk house on my grandpas farm helping with the cows!

great presenttion...I have wanted dairy cow for so long !!!! Thank you for the information and the inspiration. I want to make my own butter !!!!!!!!!!!

I loved your video so informative!

I wanted to add one more comment. We have relatives that were dairy farmers during their day. They lost their farm due to financial problems. They fed their children raw milk as well as they themselves drank the raw milk all their life. When they were forced to sell their farm and depend on store purchased milk some of them became lactose intolerant. Ironic isn't it?

Great video - especially the comparisons of jersey types and the 'A1/A2' milk product. Thank you!!! :-)

I just love these Cow-Labortion videos!

Great video thank you....allot of great information and you answered just about all my question ..thank u 🙏

Learn something new every day. A2A2 is a better milk, good to know. Just found your channel and can’t wait to see more videos. Subscribed

Awesome video, great info, thanks, I subscribed☺️

Nice video.

Love you guys

This is the type of cow I've been looking at getting...the A2A2 mid mini jersey. Thank you for such great insight and detail. I'm not ready yet but hopefully I will be in a year or so. Thanks again. I love watching your channel.

Loved the video..very informational 💚🌱💚

Y’all seem so more relaxed with the cow verses those naughty goats! Lol I want a family cow plus one meat cow or two.

I just discovered your channel, I’m really enjoying it!