Water Oak Farms Dairy 9-17-09

We went to visit Keith at the Burow's dairy. He works there on Thursday's and Friday's. It was such a fun field trip! We got to watch Mrs. Burow make some of the products also. She was making ice cream when we were there. She also makes cheeses and other dairy products.

Martin, Millie and Bella kept the goats feed bowls full while Keith milked. They have 2 milk machines and about 39 goats to be milked. The whole process from start to finish takes about 3 hours.

They weigh the amount of the milk, and document how much each goat produces at each milking. Stephen was helping jot the info down.

Keith just took the machine off, and was taking the milk into the kitchen area to pour it into the gallon jar.

The milk gets poured into a bowl on top of the gallon jar, and goes through a strainer as it goes into the jar.

Mr. & Mrs. Burow were going over the orders for the day. Mr. Burow was heading to Houston to make his deliveries for the day, while Mrs. Burow stayed at the farm and made the products for Friday's deliveries to the Austin area.

Martin and Papa watching in the kitchen area.

Some of the cheeses getting packed up for delivery that day.

The girls helping Uncle Keith. He was marking on the jar what the date was.

James sitting down in the chair inspecting the progress of the goings on.

Mrs. Burow unloading the ice cream into a giant bowl. She made several flavors out of that one batch... cappuccino, brownie bite, root beer float...

Watching and learning.

The milk makers out grazing.

After the milking, Keith fed the baby goats. There was a turkey that kept trying to get in and he was bothering the baby goaties. Martin was the little turkey hurder, and did his best to keep her away from all the goats.

The kids just loved all the kids....haha.

Papa and his little ones. That is Keith's new truck in the background with the camper shell on the back. The driveway to the Burows house is narrow with lots of overgrowth of branches and the ground was very sandy, so we parked it out on the side of the dirt road going to their driveway, and used Keith's truck as a shuttle.

Me and my little ones.