Udder-licious

Cindy ZimmermanGeneral, World Dairy Expo

world dairy expo 2010 frostyOne of the titles that two-time World Dairy Expo Supreme Champion Harvue Roy Frosty holds is “Best Udder” and she is certainly well-endowed, as well as being very productive. At five years and seven months, in 365 days, she produced 44,713 pounds of milk with a five percent test, 2,222 lbs of fat, a 2.8 percent protein at 1,248 lbs.

In a Google search for Frosty, I came across a blog post written last year when she won Supreme Champion. It was written by “Midwest Refugee” who ruminates about all things Wisconsin and is not at all shocked that “the supreme cow of all the galaxies just happens to be from Wisconsin.” Couple of funny lines from the post about Frosty as seen from someone outside the dairy industry, commenting on Frosty’s official portrait from the Harvue Farms website:

world dairy expo 2010 frosty1. Why is the cow’s tail groomed to look like a French poodle? Whoever teased that cow’s tail is welcome to come over and do my hair ANYTIME….
2. Is anybody else completely creeped out by its udder? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve milked my fair share of cows before (at the Milwaukee County Zoo), but for some reason the thought of touching this cow’s udder seems…I dunno…dirty to me or something. Look at it! …
3. What’s the deal with the skin and bones look? Did the cow swallow a tripod or something? Is the photo airbrushed so that the cow looks super-skinny for some celebrity cow magazine cover??…
4. Why is the winner of this contest called the “supreme champion”? What did the cow have to do to achieve this title? Cage fight other livestock until there was just one left standing? It makes the cow sound like it’s some sort of intergalactic bovine champion from the future.

Be sure to check out the photos and video on the World Dairy Expo website – great stuff!

My photos from expo can be found here: 2010 World Dairy Expo Photo Album

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