He Said My Cow Has a Tumor, but She had THIS Instead

What is going on here?

Gideon, what's going on here?

All right, come on, let's go to church. I've been trying to get them out to do chores. Where's your shoes? You little emo today. What's wrong? Hey! Oh, there they are.

Look, release the bull! Today me and Josiah are filming because Papa is, um, needs to get some work done. So me and Josiah are gonna do the chores and film a vlog for him. Here we are at the chickens and the pigs.

You know, I'm thankful Jonah's taking that over. I've got a lot to do today inside. Office, office work, you know. Every once in a while somebody will— wonder what I do for a living. I kind of homestead for a living, kind of in that I built a business around it. So I guess I'm more like an entrepreneur and I create content. Today is one of those days where I'm gonna be inside doing a lot of boring office work to keep up with my business. Her back quarter has been plugged for quite some time now. Let's see if today is the day that it gets unplugged. It's hard to get out, but it's coming. There, it's gonna plug. Yeah, it's gonna plug. Plugged up. All right, here we go again. And it'll go for a little while and then plug up again, unless today's different. Can somebody get me a little bucket to catch this for the pigs? They're clogged up. And so the dance goes for about an hour and a half. I actually had a really good run with it right there. Oh, I guess it's not going to continue. I've got two cow guys. I think one of them said who lives in a similar region as mine, uh, iodine. She gets free choice iodine, but there's a chance that she needs it and she's not taking it in herself. So kind of forcing that boost on her by putting it in her feed. I don't know what we're gonna do, but we can't milk one cow 2 to 3 hours a day and not get any progress. So I think we're gonna keep been doing this for maybe a week.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

I mean, one thing is we might just have to let it see how it goes if we just milk all we can out one morning and then see what happens. Gideon, will you let Lily help you milk?

No.

Why not? Why not? Because I want to milk myself. Okay, she is getting older, and one of the macaw guys was like, you know, it might be time for Burgerville. Um, if she's prone to this, it's likely that her offspring will be. I mean, it's one thing to get something like this, it's another thing not to kick it and get rid of it, especially all that we've done. So Brown found his gloves. Does that mean you're gonna hang with me a little bit better?

And I got two things.

Lily, thank you for helping me milk. You and my granddaughter there, my baby doll granddaughter. Get in. It's just you and I. We have got a good amount out. I think that's more than we got yesterday. I got more hot water. So I'm thinking we have to do the best we can. I can't be doing this 3 times a day, uh, like I have been. So I'm gonna go to 2. We'll do in the morning and then the evening, and we're just gonna have to let this run its course. There, we're getting a good run. Ah, that's like the worst feeling. They're going good and suddenly just Clogged up. One, one option we have is to dry her off, and that will go a ways towards healing this, but we're about 3-4 months early in drying her off. So that'd be 3 or 4 months of milk from her that we wouldn't have that we would have. So that's kind of a hard decision. Another thing I'm thinking about is, well, what if we just milk the best we can every morning, get what we can out? What's like the worst that's gonna happen? If we don't get it all out of this one teat. If the worst can happen is that teat would just dry up or just keep on giving us trouble until we dry her off anyway, that's not so bad. But if the worst to happen is that maybe she would get mastitis again, uh, and get sick, that would be bad. So you're doing the milks?

Yeah.

How was it with Flossie? Okay. Okay. What's that?

Randolph's here.

Randolph's here.

He's trying to sneak some stuff from the bathroom.

A few minutes before 9.

He brought—

how big is this coffee? Small.

I said, oh, it's a small one.

We're just getting started, aren't we?

He said, I just got a small one just to start.

So this is Phyllis' milk. Look at the residue on there.

I know, I think because she's shedding.

That tells me she's shedding.

Yeah, her other—

it could be some of our problem.

Her other quarters. Yeah, which it's normal for them to do that, but also the herbal remedy that we did with Phyllis is specifically for udder. Any— yeah, and it'll, it'll shed anything.

Yeah. So, so she, she's not wrong with that one quarter.

Yeah. And I don't think that— and that, that's not like a mastitis thing or anything. I think she's just an old cow.

That's— that could be some of our problem here. Yeah. Is she 10 years old?

She's 10 or 11.

Goodness. Randolph! Hi, good morning! Good morning. How big's your coffee this morning? Oh, not too bad. Just a medium. We've only got it started, huh? Oh well, we've already disregarded. Supposed to have a dumpster come today. Yeah, we're gonna need it, I believe. So what's the plan? I guess just, uh, disassemble and Move everything we can out of here, I guess. Okay. All right, I just got off the phone with Animal Synergy Products. Amazing company, amazing company. We've used their products in the past with great success. Even this time, I mean, she doesn't have the mastitis, she doesn't have the, the temperature, solid poop, eating. So we've cleared it up. We just now have something— it did want me to feel for a tumor. And if you have a tumor, honey, If that's the case, you got to really work it out. It's going to hurt her, uh, but you got to work it out. And if you can't get out, you got to use a knife to go up in there and kind of hook it and bring it out. Yeah, that's where we might have to get a vet, but I need to see if we have a tumor. Come on, honey. But what cool people, what a cool company. Call them, they help diagnose. All right, tumor. Okay, no tumor down in the teat. Okay, well, that's good news and bad news. The good news and the bad news is both one. I'm not feeling a tumor. Okay, yeah, it's like stops right there unless it's a little thing. Okay, let's get it to clog and then we'll— well, I'll be— it's milking right now. There it is. Okay, so something clogs it. Something completely clogs it. I think we're probably just moving. Okay. Huh. Whoa! I feel like maybe there is something in there. Oh wow, there is something. It's not a tumor though, it's a— wow, guys! Holy moly, holy moly. I think it was a— holy smokes, guys! I'm milking, I'm milking, I'm milking her! Holy smokes. I don't know if it was tumors Or a tumor. Oh my word. Or just, um, what do you call it? Maybe those were little tumors, or it was shedding. Big, big shedding tissue. Oh my, I'm milking her out. Like, guys, I'm at the end of the mountain. It was just impossible this morning. I also asked them on the phone, what do I do if I just give up on this tea? Is it going to be the end of the world? And he's like, no, she'll just probably produce less than that to eat and you'll be all right. But here we go. I don't, I, I don't know. I haven't been this happy about a farm accomplishment in a long time. That's crazy. Let me show you what I did. Hey, milked her out. Milked it all the way out. I'm gonna show you. Where's the rubber glove? This is crazy.

Um, well, they were in that bathroom, but I don't know where you put all that stuff. Oh, ah, here they are in this box.

I'm gonna I'm gonna show you guys what I did. Thank you, Animal Synergy Products.

Synergy Animal Products.

Synergy Animal Products, sorry. I've been saying it wrong this whole time. I'll link them. He told me to go out there and feel for a tumor. So I'm out there, I'm feeling up here. He said that hardness up there, it could be scar tissue and never expect it to go away.

Yeah.

If the udder cream doesn't do that. Well, because this is why.

I felt that and I was like, that's weird.

So with that being thought, being that she may have scar tissue because the quarter in front of that.

Yeah.

Is a blind quarter.

Teddy, get off!

I'm sorry. And, um, you off, off of the couch. And so it would be expected that there might be some scar tissue from the quarter in front of it because whatever happened to that quarter.

Yeah. Okay, so here's the other— so there's scar tissue up here that's not going to go away, right? But anyway, you tell— told me it felt for a tumor. Yeah, like in the teat. Yeah. Well, I didn't feel any tumors per se. Like, no little, like, marbles or knots. But you know, when I'm milking, it will suddenly stop like it's getting plugged up, right? So I said, well, you know, maybe there's a little tumor or something, right? And so I milked until it stopped, and then I need somebody to hold this camera. What if I pinch it off right here? I can't feel anything. And then I milk, and sure enough, goop started coming out.

Are you serious?

Like, um, shedding, or I don't know if it's a little tumor. It's just this little fleshy type stuff. And it would squirt out and I would milk some more and it got plugged up again. And then one more time and I was able to milk the whole thing out.

That's crazy.

So it's just shedding, I think. All right, all right, you guys got that for a minute? I gotta call Big Daddy. Concrete's supposed to come tomorrow, but it's supposed to— for— it's supposed to be, uh, cold. It's supposed to be freezing. They need it freezing or warmer. 32 or warmer. See what Big Daddy thinks. And it's not gonna be that for what, 2 weeks? They want to pour tomorrow. The problem is, how cold is it gonna be that night? It's gonna be 27. Oh, ask him if they have blankets.

Yeah.

Okay, so they're saying it would be okay if he's got blankets, if he's going to cover it with blankets. So he didn't say nothing about that. Let's see.

Hello?

Hey, hey, Bruce said if you'll cover it with blankets, it'd be all right. You use blankets? I don't have them, but let me see what I can do and I'll get back with you. You'll get back with me? Yeah. Oh, so you might be able to get some? Yeah. Okay, yeah, let me know. Okay, it's now or never, isn't it? Like, we're