Day 3... Chores, Ms. Herzig's Dad, Cheese, and More Chores!

Wake up early for morning chores!  Get Clementine's snout in your face! 

Bluegrass wants to lick Carlos' pants! 

Three different colored eggs from the chicken coop. 

 This is my favorite heifer Juno.  I like her because she is not like the other heifers.  She doesn't try to take other cows' food.  She's patient and waits for it.  -- Raven

We love the cow faces we see every day!

Carlos took a picture of me and Martini.  Don't lick my face!  -- Jardel 

 My dad came to meet the students, see the farm, and talk about Vermont and how to play the harmonica.  They had heard he could play Rockin' Robin, so he played it for them and gave them a chance to try making notes, too.  -- Ms. Herzig

First try at playing the harmonica.  -- Jardel

I blew so hard into the harmonica that almost lost my voice.  -- Shelbbie 

This is when we all tried playing the harmonica to see if people could hit a single note on it.  I did well hitting five or six notes at once.   -- Cohen

Astronaut!!!  This is actually a white suit for cleaning cheese.  You have to wear one to keep bacteria away from the cheese.  -- Jardel 

The cheese wheels were really heavy and you had to get used to the smell, but near the middle you got used to it and you got used to turning the cheese and picking it up.  -- Kaitlyn

 Peeking through the cheese shelves.

This is when I had to clean a year old cheese wheel.  It was smelly, old, wrinkly, but it was still cheese.  -- Dean

We had to wash the cheese and this is the way you do it.  You have to take a cheese cloth (a rag) and dip it in salt water and then wring it out so it doesn't drip anymore.  Then you have to scrub off the top of the cheese, then you have to scrub the sides.  Then you have to pull the cheese out so it's peeking out of the shelf so it can air out.  -- David

It's kind of tricky to feed the cows because they're trying to get at the food while you're pouring it down. You're lucky if your cow is leaning in the other stall next to it, trying to get another cow's food.  -- Kaitlyn

The milk inspector was telling us about the milk and the milk pump.  He was pointing at the DHIR card that every cow has.  It tells how many pounds of milk they've produced and how many calves the cow has had.  Also it tells the cow's score which has to do with how well the cow is producing the milk and if the milk is good.  -- Carlos

I brushed Lenore's tail and her hip.  People have to do that to clean the cows off because they can't do it themselves.  Also, in the winter they grow more hair to keep them warm and in the summer they don't need it.  So we brush it to help them get rid of the extra hair.  -- Shelbbie