Baby Goats

[Mugwump]

..yup, one looks just like the 'udder'....

[BallAquatics]

Cute name for the image file.  LOL

Dennis

[LizStreithorst]

That is an excellent udder for a home milker.  It is high enough in the rear.  The teats are of good size and shape and the fore udder is as smoothly blended into the body as a show udder.  Very nice.

[wallace]

Why thank you Liz. The milk is good too. I've been hearing a lot about the importance of the gut biome lately, so I don't think we will pasteurize it.

[LizStreithorst]

Nubians produce very rich milk.  Mine was up around 4.5% butterfat.  The only time I ever pasteurized was when a milk customer wanted it pasteurized.  Be clean with your milking equipment and chill the milk quickly (I chilled mine in ice water) and you will be fine.  If you don't run your buck with the does the milk won't pick up that disgusting flavor that tastes like a buck in rut.

[Mugwump]

Nubians produce very rich milk.  Mine was up around 4.5% butterfat.  The only time I ever pasteurized was when a milk customer wanted it pasteurized.  Be clean with your milking equipment and chill the milk quickly (I chilled mine in ice water) and you will be fine.  If you don't run your buck with the does the milk won't pick up that disgusting flavor that tastes like a buck in rut.

...LOLOLOL........

[LizStreithorst]

Most people think that goat milk is supposed to taste like that.  It's why people say they don't like goat's milk.

[Mugwump]

Most people think that goat milk is supposed to taste like that.  It's why people say they don't like goat's milk.

....I was raised partly with goat's milk.....and everything you can make with it too.....

[wallace]

My brother milked the goats when we were kids, and I milked the cow. He drank goat milk, I drank cow milk. I tasted some goat milk yesterday and its better than I remember it being. We didn't have bucks then, so maybe it was the feed?

[LizStreithorst]

I don't have an answer for that.  I never had a problem with off flavor milk.  They say that their are some weeds that goats will eat that make the milk taste bitter.  Goats like a smorgasbord.  Cows like grass.   That's my best guess.