I don't have any cows, goats, etc so the term "freshen" that I see often is unfamiliar. Can someone give me the freshen for dummies explanation? Thanks!

-- Cindy in NY (cjpopeck@worldnet.att.net), July 17, 2001

Answers

Hi Cindy,

heres the quick version: freshen mean when the animal has their baby, a goat has a kid, cow calf and comes into milk. thats freshening. For exmple someone may say I will frehsen 10 does in the spring, means 10 does have babies and they come into milk. hope this helps.

Bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), July 17, 2001.

"Freshen" can also mean stirring the pudding to get the "skin" off the top

Throwing cold water on one's face.

Applying a "fresh" dab of deoderant.

Adding some hot coffee to someone's lukewarm cup.

Adding freshcut flowers to the old drooping ones.

Flushing the toilet.

Microwaving a dampened papertowel with the hard stale bread or roll.

or

what Vicki said. ;-)

-- JimR (jroberts1@cas.org), July 18, 2001.

oops, bernice/

-- JimR (jroberts1@cas.org), July 18, 2001.

The milk production usually tapers off gradually through the year as the time increases from the last birth... so to freshen is to bump it back up with all those hormonal/physiological changes {That women love so much.. hee hee} through the birthing process.

-- Dave (peasedj@sparc.isl.net), July 18, 2001.

Hey Bernice, Jim can't tell me and you apart! ;)

Cindy, over at Goatworld.com Gary has a really neat terminology site fixed up, with all the discriptions to the words goat folks use. Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), July 18, 2001.

LOL:):) that was too funny Vicki & jim....

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), July 18, 2001.

Yeah, Vicki...you all look the same to me, you just spell your names differently. ;-)

-- JimR (jroberts1@cas.org), July 19, 2001.

Thanks everyone for your answers! JimR, I'm not quite sure what to say!

-- Cindy in NY (cjpopeck@worldnet.att.net), July 24, 2001.