A stress-free environment
Cyclone-resistant open sheds with concrete floors, deep shade, room to lie down and space to walk away from each other. No crowding, no tethering all day, no noise.
Four things we never cut
The daily work
nobody sees.
None of this is glamorous and none of it can be skipped. It is the whole difference between our milk and the milk in a plastic pouch.
Feed we check ourselves
Every ration is inspected before it reaches the trough — roughly 25 kg of green fodder and 8 kg of dry per cow, per day. We grow the green ourselves, so we know its history.
Preventive healthcare
Ayurvedic medication and traditional practice keep the herd well before it falls ill. Floors are washed daily; hooves, coats and udders are checked on a schedule rather than when something goes wrong.
Personal care
Every cow has a name and a handler who knows her temperament, her calving history and her moods. Three hundred and fifty animals, not three hundred and fifty numbers.
A day at Pidhapatana
From four in the morning.
- 04:00
Sheds cleaned
Floors washed down and bedding cleared before the herd stirs. Hygiene starts before milking, not after.
- 04:30
Calves fed
Every calf goes to its mother and drinks first. Only then does collection begin.
- 05:00
Morning milking
Every cow is milked by hand by a trained milker, so each udder is emptied completely and cleanly.
- 05:30
Into the chiller
Milk goes straight to the dairy — pasteurised, homogenised, chilled and bottled while the delivery round is loading.
- 07:00
Green fodder
Fresh silage and cut corn arrive from our own fields and go out along the troughs.
- 16:00
Evening round
Health checks, hoof and coat inspection, then the second milking — calves first again.
Moving pictures