Pink milk?

[Sir Loin]

Pink milk?

A UK farmer's cows produced pink milk after he started feeding them carrots.
Jersey cattle farmer Peter Houguez added carrots to his cattle's diet of grass and hay, but had to contact a vet when their milk turned pink.
He was advised to feed them white carrots, which he now imports from France.
Houguez said: "The cows go mad for carrots. White carrots taste just same as orange so the problem was solved." National Farmers' Union spokesman Ian Johnson has revealed cows are often fed a variety of unusual foods, including liquorice allsorts.
Johnson said: "Pink milk is probably healthier with all the nutrients from the vegetables."

 

[Horticattleman]

I thought that's where we got strawberry milk!?!?!?!?

 

[glover36]

could it just be blood in the milk lol

 

[ENNOT]

It is probably that color from the carotene in the carrots. Somehow it probably just passed the color into the milk.

 

[bob g]

I had a secretary that spent all her money on clothes....at month's end she was broke and decided to go on a carrott diet, nothing but carrotts. They were cheap and very filling....on about the third day of this carrott diet, she came to work...her skin was the color of a tangerine...orange.

The doctor called it "carotemia". I took her to lunch and fed her a big hamburger and the next day she again was a beautiful southern belle.

 

[AnnBledsoe]

Hmmmm -- strange.
Especially since the Jersey Island breeders of the 19th century used to feed as much as a bushel a day of carrots to their cows to keep the butter nice and yellow through the winter.

Ann B