OMG...I cannot STAND goat cheese.
We had some at the fair and it actually had the texture and FLAVOR of lye soap. BLECK!
We had some at the fair and it actually had the texture and FLAVOR of lye soap. BLECK!
HELP..GOATY goat MILK!! :(
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Hmmm... I don't know anything about milking goats. My DH & I were going to look into getting some maybe next year, though.
Our neighbor has some (not sure which breed) and her milk is awesome! My kids like it MUCH better than cows milk. DH even liked it enough to consider buying & milking our own goats - now that's impressive.
Good luck!
Our neighbor has some (not sure which breed) and her milk is awesome! My kids like it MUCH better than cows milk. DH even liked it enough to consider buying & milking our own goats - now that's impressive.
Good luck!
Does it have a "buck" smell and taste? If so, its the exposure of your buck around the girls. That is why we never had bucks with our girls, we send them off to the stud farm. Once they were serviced, we brought them back, had kids and our milk was sweet and non bucky or strong tasting milk. It was sweet. Our pasture was mixture of dandelion weeds, grass, and clover.
The problem with your milk is most likely the fact that they are Toggs. Not all Toggs have terrible milk, but a lot of them do and the factor that causes the off flavor is hereditary. I had heard about Togg milk for years, and I didn't know what the people were referring to. I had some Toggs at the time and their milk was fine. Then I ended up caring for a herd of Toggs for someone else. I went out to the barn one morning to get some milk for my cereal and ended up with milk from the boarding Toggs. It was a-once-in- a-lifetime experience for me. Meaning that I took care that this would never happen to me again. The stuff was undrinkable!!
Exposure to bucks does not cause off flavored milk. If milk tastes and smells bucky it is from the capriolic (sp) acid the doe produces herself and is not from the buck. I used to run a buck with my does during breeding season on occasion and it didn't affect the milk at all. Once I had a buck that produced milk. On a whim I sampled his milk. It had excellent flavor. Sent some off to the lab and it tested 4% BF and CMT negative.
There are some weeds that will affect milk flavor. Just pull the does off pasture a couple hours before milking and see if it makes a difference. Does that have subclinical mastitis often produce salty tasting milk.
In all probability your best bet is to get rid of the Toggs and get a couple Nubians.
Exposure to bucks does not cause off flavored milk. If milk tastes and smells bucky it is from the capriolic (sp) acid the doe produces herself and is not from the buck. I used to run a buck with my does during breeding season on occasion and it didn't affect the milk at all. Once I had a buck that produced milk. On a whim I sampled his milk. It had excellent flavor. Sent some off to the lab and it tested 4% BF and CMT negative.
There are some weeds that will affect milk flavor. Just pull the does off pasture a couple hours before milking and see if it makes a difference. Does that have subclinical mastitis often produce salty tasting milk.
In all probability your best bet is to get rid of the Toggs and get a couple Nubians.
- Jul 13, 2009
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I have Saanens!!!!!!!!!!
Yes... all goats have that goaty taste..
Ours just seems a little less at times, that is becuase they have less cream in the milk, but we have two in production and we have so much we don't know what to do with it anymore.
We have started making cheese and it is really good.
If you were not raised with goat milk, most tend not to like it. It isn't the milk per-say, but the person. Your body says it is bad becuase it isn't from a cow. It is proven, and tested.
So what you can do is maybe seperate the cream with the separator?
I'm not sure, but if you want some help PM me! I am seeing my goat leader soon and can ask him what we can do about it.
Please give me some recipes!
Does anyone know how to make goat soap and lotion without using lye?
(P.S. It is harder making some cheeses with Saanen milk becuase of the low cream to milk ratio, if you want Saanens I'm warning you, they are big and pigs, but i love them
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Yes... all goats have that goaty taste..
Ours just seems a little less at times, that is becuase they have less cream in the milk, but we have two in production and we have so much we don't know what to do with it anymore.
We have started making cheese and it is really good.
If you were not raised with goat milk, most tend not to like it. It isn't the milk per-say, but the person. Your body says it is bad becuase it isn't from a cow. It is proven, and tested.
So what you can do is maybe seperate the cream with the separator?
I'm not sure, but if you want some help PM me! I am seeing my goat leader soon and can ask him what we can do about it.
Please give me some recipes!
Does anyone know how to make goat soap and lotion without using lye?
(P.S. It is harder making some cheeses with Saanen milk becuase of the low cream to milk ratio, if you want Saanens I'm warning you, they are big and pigs, but i love them
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- Jan 31, 2009
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I very much doubt it is the pasture.
Your problem is that they are toggs ...
I would suggest if these does arent to your liking, sell them and try some other does, but the important thing is
TASTE THE MILK BEFORE YOU BUY THE DOES!
Your problem is that they are toggs ...
I would suggest if these does arent to your liking, sell them and try some other does, but the important thing is
TASTE THE MILK BEFORE YOU BUY THE DOES!
Yes... all goats have that goaty taste..
Ours just seems a little less at times, that is becuase they have less cream in the milk, but we have two in production and we have so much we don't know what to do with it anymore.
We have started making cheese and it is really good.
If you were not raised with goat milk, most tend not to like it. It isn't the milk per-say, but the person. Your body says it is bad becuase it isn't from a cow. It is proven, and tested.
So what you can do is maybe seperate the cream with the separator?
No, all goat's milk does NOT have a goaty taste.
I (and my husband and the rest of my family) were NOT raised with goat's milk either, and we all love it. I was severely lactose intolerant and couldn't handle cow's milk, but guess what? Can handle the goat's milk without a hitch. If anything, our bodies are saying its GOOD and better than cow's milk. Which it really is.
Would you care to share those studies that "test and prove" that theory?
Also, my does get free choice browse, the buck is on the farm with them (though not usually in the same pen), and I never have bad tasting milk.
There could still be something in your pasture causing a tainted taste. Or it could be the goats themselves. SOME goats DO give a bad tasting milk, it happens.
Try dry lotting them and see if that makes a difference.
Ours just seems a little less at times, that is becuase they have less cream in the milk, but we have two in production and we have so much we don't know what to do with it anymore.
We have started making cheese and it is really good.
If you were not raised with goat milk, most tend not to like it. It isn't the milk per-say, but the person. Your body says it is bad becuase it isn't from a cow. It is proven, and tested.
So what you can do is maybe seperate the cream with the separator?
No, all goat's milk does NOT have a goaty taste.
I (and my husband and the rest of my family) were NOT raised with goat's milk either, and we all love it. I was severely lactose intolerant and couldn't handle cow's milk, but guess what? Can handle the goat's milk without a hitch. If anything, our bodies are saying its GOOD and better than cow's milk. Which it really is.
Would you care to share those studies that "test and prove" that theory?
Also, my does get free choice browse, the buck is on the farm with them (though not usually in the same pen), and I never have bad tasting milk.
There could still be something in your pasture causing a tainted taste. Or it could be the goats themselves. SOME goats DO give a bad tasting milk, it happens.
Try dry lotting them and see if that makes a difference.
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I also dry lot and have no gaotiness..............never even tasted goat milk unti lwe purchased our first girls.......WHOLE family loves it. Now to your problem I wonder if for some reason your milk got overhandled....this will definitely make the milk goaty we are careful about handling our milk and even then everyonce in a while we catch a jar that got too much handling and is not so yummy.
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