Visiting Rice Lake

We visited Rice Lake, Wisconsin.

Today I went to see a cow factory (also known as a dairy farm).  One thing I learned  is that I never knew that there have to be  only female cows in the  factory for some stupid reason. The reason that there needs to be female cows is that they are the only ones that make milk.

The farmers had to take blood from the cows just in case their milk was unhealthy.

The cows are milked in a big round area that spun around.  We got to go in the middle

of the circle. The cows were very scared of us being in the middle part.

The big circle of cows being milked

The cows where very fat because they had milk in their body. The milking process was that there were three men and a woman.  The first guy put soap on the female cows' udders and the second guy cleaned with a washcloth and the third guy was punting the tubes on the udders to suck the milk up. The milk goes into tubes where it is chilled to be very cold. Then the milk goes into a big truck to the cheese factory and to shops.

Me with 23 million gallons of cow poop

The tour guide named Asher showed us the poop that the cows did and it was a lot because there where so many cows in the barn. The poop came threw tubes under ground from the cows to a big pond.

Later after lunch me and my sister went with our uncle on the four wheeler to have some fun and we saw the cheese factory and they made fresh cheese and we went to a store that has cheese and we had some cheese.