Monday, November 7, 2011

Cloning on the farm

Well, you can't keep a 'retired' genetic engineer away from the test tubes and DNA for too long, especially when there is a surplus of milk and a shortage of drinkers.  The pigs were shipped and we were once more drowning in the white stuff.
Sooo....
                            ... I cloned me a batch!







                          Seriously?!?


No, of course not.  Our friend and dear dairy consultant brought over a couple of heifer (girl) calves to help with the milk disposal.  The experiment was almost successful.  Ruby spent a day looking at the duplicates, chewing her cud and thinking, and then?

Then she upped her milk production!

No joke.  But we are feeding three and still have plenty of milk for cheese, butter, yogurt, and more.  It took the little new ones only one feeding and they mob us now, it is good milk!  I named the new girls Gertrude and Priscilla, for reasons obvious to me, but their final names will be decided by their owner.


Decibel now sleeps with one eye open, so I don't add more 'kids' to the family.

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