First things first. So pleased that I have a full quart of milk from this morning, for me, i.e. not counting strip milk or babies' milk. I am going to make yogurt with it, the first 100 percent from my own girls. :-)
Last year, I posted a milking v
Read more…I skimmed off a pint of cream today, and the weather has finally warmed up here. Has anybody made ice cream with goat's milk?
Read more…OK. I think I need to make the call to bottle feed little guy. How often should I be feeding?
Also:
How soon can I start milking for personal use?
Read more…My first Freshener Lucy has an uneven udder. I get milk out of both sides, so she didn't dry up on the smaller side. I can't tell if her single favors the larger side or the smaller... So I have a few questions:
Is it too late to even up an uneven ud
Read more…Generally, I milk at the 12 hour mark. 8:30 in the morning, 8:30 in the evening, but coming up in the next few weeks, I might need to trim an hour in the morning, or go "over" and milk a bit later in the evening... how will this effect my does and th
Read more…I was wondering what is the average time it would take to milk 5 does for morning milking? Lets just assume its a mixture of FF and 2nd year does. Just a average will do. I am only milking two FF and looking at adding to my herd for next year. I am n
Read more…Besides butter....
we do all our milk through the cream separator & I have quarts of cream. Give me some ideas of what I can make out of it?
Can I make soap out of cream?
Any ideas?
Read more…I am four years into keeping my own dairy goats. I started out with Nubians and have milked them for the past few years. Just this year I ventured into Nigerian Dwarfs, but still have a few Nubians. One of my ND does just kidded and I tried milking h
Read more…I am going to have to leave town to visit my dying mother. Have 3 does in milk, 2 NDs, one with micro-teats, and a mini mancha with huge, conical, easy to milk teats.
I am quite sure I can get my daughter able to milk out the mini mancha by hand.
Read more…I see all these codes next to the names of the goats but have no clue what they mean or what I'm suppose to be looking for.
Is there a site reference that gives you a reference code on how to decipher the pedigree / milk production charts? Also, what
Read more…I know we have covered this in various ways but always after uneventful births. Capri kidded a week ago Saturday and her udder seems very full all the time. The two little ones seem to be growing well so must be getting enough and I've never seen h
Read more…SafGard Home Milk Cream Pasteurizer Model P-2000 2 QT to 2 GAL - AgitatorSee original listing |
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I did a search on the forum, and was surprised to find no results for "herd share". Is no one doing this? Or is the first rule of herd share don't talk about herd share?
Read more…When I first got interested in goats I watched a video somewhere of a woman who lived in the city, with limited space, kept NDs and had a milk stand set up in the laundry area. Well, I don't have goats yet, we're still working out the details, one o
Read more…Here is how I have been dealing with the goats: they come in to the barn at sundown, get a scoop of timothy pellets to hold them over for the night. I also leave a flake of some kind of lower quality grass hay (coastal, pangola, or the like) in the
Read more…I have been looking at stainless steal buckets for milking and they all are way over priced in my opinion, like $40 bucks. I was looking in Jeffers and saw one that is actually meant for god bowls but was wondering if it would work for milking.http:/
Read more…What is the best thing to store milk in, I was thinking the Kerr jars you can get from the grocery store.
Read more…I am going to separate my kids at night to milk their dam when they are old enough but I am a bit wary of one thing with this. They say not to dip the teat after you milk if you are gonna put the kids back in w/ her and I just can't see this happenin
Read more…I am on my first year of FFA in High School and my mom only wants to breed them once then milk them through the 4 years I'm going to have them, but my adviser told me this is bad for them and they need to have a break in between lactation and that's
Read more…Hi everyone, I've tried two different milkers for my goats so far, and have pretty much given up on the vaccuum sealers for one goat - you know, the hand squeeze kind and and the vac. sealer kind. They just didn't work for us. I had terrible time
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