goats milk questions

[Rafter 7 Paint Horses]

We keep the girls we want to use for breeding, and the rest are sold.
We plan to let the nanny's raise their own kids, and to milk one time a day instead of two. This is my first time with milk goats, we have had the meat (Boer) goats in the past.

I know someone who raises and shows milk goats & they take the kids away from the nanny's, milk twice a day, pasteurize the milk & give it back to the kids via buckets with nipples.
They then sell all the billy's while young to people who want bottle babies and sell the girls that they aren't going to breed. They have all registered stock & they get $400.00 and up for their girls as show goats.

Jean

 

[NewGuineaChooks]

Young bucks/wethers sell to hispanic communities for Cabrito. Yummy food! There is *no* problem with demand for dairy doe kids. And if you get a useless/poor quality kid, you can always sell it aution. (I think that probably = dog food)

Our arrangement for breeding, since we don't keep our own billy, is to give one of the doe kids to the other farm as a stud fee for all 4 of our milkers.

Fias Co Farms website has handy info about cheese making. We just made 8 pounds of mozzarella.

Yogurt: anyone else notice that yogurt from goat's milk is runnier than yogurt from cow's milk?

I think brucellosis is one of the concerns that causes people to pasturize their milk. We don't ourselves, though. I definitely second the 'filter' suggestion. Otherwise, we end of drinking goat hairs. Bleh!

-maureen

 

[CDennis]

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Thanks for the link. I have my first doe due in April.