We are fairly new to Nigerian Dwarfs. We currently own 3. Our second goat just had a kid 2.5 weeks ago and we just sold it yesterday and started milking her.
Our first goat gave us a quart of milk each milking for the first 4+ months. We milked t
Read more…Has anyone else had experience with Dansha Farms? I ordered a manual milker from them and the pump on it broke on the first use. It just snapped. So we called them and they said they'd send out a replacement pump. It arrived a couple of days later, p
Read more…I have a doe with double teats that make milking difficult. I usually get squirted in the eye by the extra little one. I thought getting a milking machine would help but her teats are too small and the inflation collapses right at the end of the te
Read more…Hey all- in the past few weeks, my doe's left side of her udder has started producing almost three times the amount of her right side. Overall, milk production has gone up slightly so it seems that as the right side has become slightly less producti
Read more…Oh my goodness, I made a batch of cajeta (goat milk caramel sauce) today and it is amazing! It's so complex, creamy and not overly sweet. It certainly wasn't hard to do and it only needs a few ingredients. Though it did take a couple of hours and nee
Read more…My 2-year-old LaMancha, the one we've had so much trouble getting bred (even after vet checks, diet checks, minerals, copper, etc.), now has had her udder filling up the last few weeks.
At first I thought, yay! Maybe she's finally bred. But her udder
Read more…Hello! We recently re-homed our two kid wethers after three months of nursing. In the few days since, our doe has decided she does NOT like her grain. It's a sweet feed for dairy goats and she's been eating it for months, although she's never exac
Read more…I've pretty much reached the end of this milking season. Daphne is already dried up and just this week Juniper's supply has dropped dramatically. She's down to about 10-12 ounces per day and once I get the last of my soap and hand cream orders finis
Read more…I'm planning to start making some soap with milk from my Juniper. To get a general idea of what the butterfat percentage of her milk is, I kept a cup of it in my refrigerator for several days to see how much cream rose. I skimmed off a little over a
Read more…Went out to the barn to milk this evening and discovered many of them had gotten into the feed room! Not sure how they got in (probably let in by our clever and sneaky wether) nor how long they were there, but 8 goats can do significant damage in 3
Read more…HI everyone,
Needing some advice with a First Freshner.
I have sisters who kidded first time this year, both gave me twins which was lovely.
One doeling has taken really well to milking her sister is a whole other story. I have managed to milk her
Read more…Hello! I have a question on expectations for a nursing doe. This is our first round with attempting to milk and both the doe and I are amateurs. I milked her a bit by hand last year -rather unsuccessfully (it was the first time for both of us), an
Read more…I have a first freshener with 7 & 1/2 week kids. I separated the kids last night and noticed today that she has a small 1/3 inch cut on the upper part of her teat. I plan on milking her to relieve the pressure but I don't want to cause more damage to
Read more…My question is about Ginger. This was not her first pregnancy but the first time she delivered babies (had to be hand delivered but two full term babies, 5-lb. buckling and 3-lb doeling) and the first time she has had milk. A year ago, she miscarri
Read more…Hi there I have a goat who miscarried her first kid yesterday evening. I reckon she was about three weeks early, the kid was perfectly formed and there is milk in her udder. I milked her this morning and she had plenty.
-Can I continue milking he
Read more…Is anyone aware of a source with the meaning of results of milk tests and what they should be for goats? I found several for cows (and not all the same) but none for goats.
For now, I am having Ginger's milk tested on a weekly basis to track butterf
Read more…I've posted before about my older doe, Daphne, being my "problem child". I'm her third owner and so she has serious trust issues. She's come along fairly well in the last few months, especially since she kidded in June. I didn't even try to milk her
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I had a first freshener go into labor over this last weekend and we lost all three of her kids. First one was breech and by the time I realized the problem we had lost them all. I would still like to milk her but she doesn't seem to be producing
Read more…At first milking today, Ginger's left teat had a cut on it. I have no idea how she got it unless it was from blackberry vines that had been cut and put in their pen. She freshed on March 8th (babies delivered dead) and I started milking her late on
Read more…I'm getting ready to buy a milking kit from either Hoegger's or Caprine Supply, and wanted your opinion on which one would be better. I don't need to buy a kit per se, but since this is my first kidding/milking this year, I want to make sure I'm not
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