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  • Cowherd and cheesemaker moving some of the Alp cheeses maturing in the cheese house.  They have to be turned daily.   He spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Driving the cows down from the higher alps for their afternoon milking...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Cowherd and cheesemaker in the portable hi-tech dairy, milking cows.  He spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Early morning milking in the milking trailer..Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Pouring the morning's milk from the churns into the cauldron...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Copper cauldron full of 400 litres of curdling milk, heating on the fire in the kitchen of the mountain chalet.?   Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Large open wood fire in the kitchen heats the couldron containing the milk, after the culture has been added. The first part of making cheese...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • The milk (already partly separated into curds and whey) is heated up on the open wood fire in the copper cauldron to its top temperature while being stirred by a electrical mixer. ..Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Collecting the curds into the basket moulds from the cauldron...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Collecting the curds into the basket moulds from the cauldron...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Skimming the curds from the bottom of the cauldron using a large piece of cheese cloth and a length of sprung steel...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Skimming the curds from the bottom of the cauldron using a large piece of cheese cloth and a length of sprung steel...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Scooping up the curd from the cauldron and lifting it with the ceiling trackway pully system...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Cleaning the cauldron...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Testing to see if the curds hold together in the right way before starting to put them into the cheese basket moulds...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Collecting the curds into the basket moulds from the cauldron...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Taking out the small cheese Mutchlies made the previous day from the basket moulds...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Putting the previous day's cheeses into the car to take them up the road to the cheese store...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Trimming the edge of the rind forming on a Alp cheese...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • The large Alp cheeses and smaller Mutchlies maturing in the cheese house. They have to be turned daily...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • The large Alp cheeses and smaller Mutchlies maturing in the cheese house. They have to be turned daily...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Making Zigger (a form of curd cheese) from the remaining whey...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Pouring water from a bucket into the drain in the kitchen. Making Zigger (a form of curd cheese) from the remaining whey...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Pouring water from a bucket into the drain in the kitchen. Making Zigger (a form of curd cheese) from the remaining whey...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Swiss Browns near Gibel, Switzerland...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Putting a cow in a restrainer so that the farmer can treat its injured leg...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Swiss brown cow...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Driving a cow to a higher pasture...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Emptying the wheelbarrow, after mucking out the pigs...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Cows waiting to be milked...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Driving a cow to a higher pasture...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • A Jersey cow coming out of the cow shed...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Curious cows near Gibel peak, Switzerland...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Heifer grazing on the highest part of the mountain on a misty morning.  Cowherd spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Heifers in the mist and snow of the highest alp, Switzerland...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • A heiffer on the snow at about 2000m, above Kasestatt, Switzerland...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Heifers in the mist and snow of the highest alp in Switzerland.
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  • One of the cow sheds above Käsestatt with attached living accomodation (usesd by skiers in the winter) with flower boxes and fire wood stored...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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  • Two pigs poking their heads out of the door of thier sty...Cowherd and cheesemaker spends 100 days in the summer, high up in the mountains, tending cows and pigs and making cheese at Balisalp and Käserstatt near Meiringen, Switzerland.
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