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Depends on the individual cow or the individual goat. Butterfat content has a lot to do with what your milk tastes like, as well as feed, cleanliness of where you milk and what you milk into, you need good quality stainless steel milk buckets and I would recommend you store your milk in glass...

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Quote: That's a really good point. You really do HAVE to be there, every day, twice a day. It's time consuming and you have to space it evenly. I usually milk 5 am and 5 pm. The closer to 12 hours apart the milkings, the better. Although, there are some people that pull their goats down...

If you only want milk for your family use, a dairy cow is going to give you WAY too much to handle. A good dairy goat alone should give you between 1 and 2 gallons a day. They also require less space, less feed, and are much easire to handle. A goat with a burr up her hiney can still be...