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April 18, 2025 62 mins

In this episode, we chat about our new dairy cow, Georgie, adjusting our lives around milking her, why we age the beef for our harvest classes in the walk-in for 30 days, and then we finally get into the stages of Pertussis.

 

Timestamps/Topics for Episode 106:

0:00 Intro & our new dairy cow, Georgie

12:55 Difficulty of milking twice a day

16:03 Weight on a dairy cow & Georgie being so chill

22:24 Get a cow for the health of your pigs

25:08 Our classes: Dry aging beef & zero trim from beef butchery

28:11 Our beef classes are really cookery classes

33:37 You will see the kill during our classes

38:12 Back to our experience with whooping cough

41:00 Hypocrisy and fear changing beliefs

46:05 Take the rational approach and do your own research

48:58 St Thomas' ideas on humans as the rational animal

52:00 Don't go hunt down your neighbors because they got you sick

55:19 There are three stages in Pertussis

 

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