Farm Experiences 1/2 Day Tour
Afternoon Includes
- Farm drive tour
- Lasso and whip crack lessons
- Feed animals and collect eggs
- Milk a cow
Tour Duration 4hrs (1.30pm - 5.30pm)
Daily Cow Milking
How to Milk a cow:
1. Find a cow - only joking
2. Squeeze your hand as hard as you can
3. Close the finger at the top of the teat to trap the milk
4. Finish this process within 8 minutes
1. Find a cow - only joking
2. Squeeze your hand as hard as you can
3. Close the finger at the top of the teat to trap the milk
4. Finish this process within 8 minutes
Join the cow milking team and try to hand milk a cow. My family has always had we call a house cow, a milker to raises her own calf while she gives us enough milk for the household. In 2015 we purchased a electric milking machine as not all the team members were good milkers and I (Lyn) wanted a holiday and the cows were making a holiday possible. We milk in the afternoon and let her own calf get the mornings milk. Myella was once dairy farm for cream for butter for export to England! Although it is a beef cattle farm we continue to keep a few dairy cows for milk for the fridge.
How many places in the world do farmers allow you to milk their cows? Have you ever wondered why? The slower you are the less milk you get and the likely hood of the cow getting sick. We have a few systems in place to prevent problems and below are some tips to help.
WHY WE HAND MILK
In the 1930's and 1960's Myella was a dairy farm. Cows were milked by machine for the cream to be made into butter and exported to ENGLAND!! When England did not want Aussie butter any more the breed of cows were changed from Dairy to Beef. The farmers kept a few cows to milk for the family so they did not have to buy milk from a shop. These "house cows" were milked by hand as it was more economical on time. Olive's father had a dairy and later house cows, Olive always hand milked the cow for the family food supply, then Lyn did it and now the guests get involved! To help we have changed the breed of the milkers make it safer and easier for guests.
QUIZ QUESTION
Q. When does most of the cream come when milking the cow?
A. Most of the cream comes last.
How many places in the world do farmers allow you to milk their cows? Have you ever wondered why? The slower you are the less milk you get and the likely hood of the cow getting sick. We have a few systems in place to prevent problems and below are some tips to help.
WHY WE HAND MILK
In the 1930's and 1960's Myella was a dairy farm. Cows were milked by machine for the cream to be made into butter and exported to ENGLAND!! When England did not want Aussie butter any more the breed of cows were changed from Dairy to Beef. The farmers kept a few cows to milk for the family so they did not have to buy milk from a shop. These "house cows" were milked by hand as it was more economical on time. Olive's father had a dairy and later house cows, Olive always hand milked the cow for the family food supply, then Lyn did it and now the guests get involved! To help we have changed the breed of the milkers make it safer and easier for guests.
QUIZ QUESTION
Q. When does most of the cream come when milking the cow?
A. Most of the cream comes last.
Farm Tour
Ride around the farm in the 4WD, every tour is a little different. The tour allows general discussion as the farm stay experience often
stimulates thoughts and questions. There are many options; the tour can focus on wildlife, fauna and flora, bush tucker, conservation, farming practices, the farms history and the life cycle and instincts of cattle.
Understanding Cattle Behaviour on Small Farms Whilst some handlers have a natural ability for many the skills are gained from observation and practice. Over time you will also learn to be instinctive and sense when they are ill, distressed or hungry and know what their signs are.
The farm tour takes in the scenery; the landscape if often likened to an African scene but with kangaroos, cattle and bottle trees!
You can also participate in a farm job like repairing a fence is you want to get some dirt on your hands. Just let us know your interest.
Alternatively we offer a facility tour where guests see and learn about the vegetable garden, water systems or visit our kitchen and the impressive food storage pantry.
stimulates thoughts and questions. There are many options; the tour can focus on wildlife, fauna and flora, bush tucker, conservation, farming practices, the farms history and the life cycle and instincts of cattle.
Understanding Cattle Behaviour on Small Farms Whilst some handlers have a natural ability for many the skills are gained from observation and practice. Over time you will also learn to be instinctive and sense when they are ill, distressed or hungry and know what their signs are.
The farm tour takes in the scenery; the landscape if often likened to an African scene but with kangaroos, cattle and bottle trees!
You can also participate in a farm job like repairing a fence is you want to get some dirt on your hands. Just let us know your interest.
Alternatively we offer a facility tour where guests see and learn about the vegetable garden, water systems or visit our kitchen and the impressive food storage pantry.
Lasso and Whip Cracking Lessons
Whip cracking is the act of producing a cracking sound through the use of a whip. It was used during livestock droving days, for example when large mobs of cattle were walking from town to town and the horse rider moving them would crack a whip to make a sound to keep them moving, now days it has also become an art.
Most farms have a stock whip but they are rarely used. We demonstrate whip cracking with our guests and teach them, it's a fun thing to do to make a sonic boom with your own hands!
It's a thing that makes a huge sound and is used to move many animals without straining your voice, it can also be used near a bull that is threatening your safety. Rarely does it ever hit the animal it is never done with anger.
Ever wondered why a whip cracks? It is all to do with the release of stored energy, at a rate beyond the speed of sound. It is the loop itself that generates the sonic boom.
Why Whips Crack…Why does whip cracking create such a very loud sound? A whip generates it’s speed through storing much of it’s energy. So when a person ‘throws’ the whip, that stored energy travels from the solid handle to the tip of the whip, which moves at a rate beyond the speed of sound 343 m /sec, creating a vacuum in space. The whip cracks as a result of the air rushing back into the vacuum.
Another theory put forward by Professor Goriely of the University of Arizona Department of Mathematics is that a whip’s tapered design accelerates a loop at high speed from the handle to the cracker at the tip of the whip.
Speeds can reach more than 30 times the initial speed. It is this loop in a cracked whip that is responsible for all the noise. As the loop travels along the whip, it generates speed until it reaches the speed of sound (343m/sec), and creates a sonic boom.
Although the loop travels at one speed, other parts of the whip, including the cracker in the final stages of motion, travel twice as fast. Even though those parts are moving twice as fast, it is the loop itself that generates the sonic boom.
We also offer lasso lessons for fun and we can teach our guests how to do fancy tricks with a simple rope, it's heaps of fun.
Most farms have a stock whip but they are rarely used. We demonstrate whip cracking with our guests and teach them, it's a fun thing to do to make a sonic boom with your own hands!
It's a thing that makes a huge sound and is used to move many animals without straining your voice, it can also be used near a bull that is threatening your safety. Rarely does it ever hit the animal it is never done with anger.
Ever wondered why a whip cracks? It is all to do with the release of stored energy, at a rate beyond the speed of sound. It is the loop itself that generates the sonic boom.
Why Whips Crack…Why does whip cracking create such a very loud sound? A whip generates it’s speed through storing much of it’s energy. So when a person ‘throws’ the whip, that stored energy travels from the solid handle to the tip of the whip, which moves at a rate beyond the speed of sound 343 m /sec, creating a vacuum in space. The whip cracks as a result of the air rushing back into the vacuum.
Another theory put forward by Professor Goriely of the University of Arizona Department of Mathematics is that a whip’s tapered design accelerates a loop at high speed from the handle to the cracker at the tip of the whip.
Speeds can reach more than 30 times the initial speed. It is this loop in a cracked whip that is responsible for all the noise. As the loop travels along the whip, it generates speed until it reaches the speed of sound (343m/sec), and creates a sonic boom.
Although the loop travels at one speed, other parts of the whip, including the cracker in the final stages of motion, travel twice as fast. Even though those parts are moving twice as fast, it is the loop itself that generates the sonic boom.
We also offer lasso lessons for fun and we can teach our guests how to do fancy tricks with a simple rope, it's heaps of fun.
