[The goat girl]

I've never raised meat goats, I've always stuck to the milk. How many of y'all milk your goats?

 

[Damfino]

Let's see... when am I ever NOT milking a goat? ;-)

 

[goathiker]

Yep I do some milking here. Saving up for a simple pulse.

 

[fivemoremiles]

Define milking. I use my goats as surrogate mothers for bum kids and lambs. i have had as many as 50 bums fed by surrogate mothers in one lambing season.

 

[Island Milker]

Twice a day!

 

[WhiteFeatherFarms]

I do!!!

 

[Jessica84]

Ehhhh lol I will milk colostrum from does with singles and will milk the dairy girls at first and when they wean kids till they dry up if that counts lol I do have a jersey cow that I milk 2X a day if that counts lol

 

[fivemoremiles]

At this time of year we are focused on kidding. a little later in the year you will see lots more questions on milking next fall you will see breeding questions. just wait you will see.

 

[ReNat]

I'm milking it, it's a man's job.

 

[Trollmor]

Here, the tradition is milk. Very few people know what a delicacy goat meat is. To have a goat farm = make a living from making goat cheese. You need some 50 goats to be able to live on them. These people very seldom answer letters, for they simply have no time!

Personally, I let the kids take their choice first, and milked in the summer. When autumn came, I slaughtered and put in the freezer. When having only goat meat for dinners, I got rather tired of the taste. Most milk farm owners kill the kids at birth, having no market for the meat.

Those who have only one or two goats, have them as pets and very seldom eat them.

In older times, (before I was born!) we had a tradition here that milk was very female. For a man to milk a cow was totally out of the question! (You can read about it in Moberg's "The Emigrants", which I refer to now and then.) Even handling the milk was a female thing, which enabled women to make a living by making cheese.

Eating cheese and drinking milk was okay for a man.

I am glad that such traditions of gender roles are now mainly history. I liked it to handle the butchering, that was a breaking of tradition even when I began to do it.

Once I heard our "King of Goat Veterinary Science", Karl-Erik Hammarberg, say that some people actually had begun to breed goats for meat. It did not occur to me that people abroad have done so for centuries.

 

[Nigerian dwarf goat]

I milk goaties!

 

[Old Post Farm]

i milk everyday 2 or 3 times

 

[Goats Rock]

I milk too! But for a change, I dried everyone off and I took a short vacation from milking. I've milked the last 3 years straight. No vacation from goats, however!

 

[wifeof1]

I milk also.

 

[singinggoatgirl]

I milk my goats! That's why they're here.

 

[The goat girl]

Ehhhh lol I will milk colostrum from does with singles and will milk the dairy girls at first and when they wean kids till they dry up if that counts lol I do have a jersey cow that I milk 2X a day if that counts lol

Sure it does!

 

[The goat girl]

I'm milking it, it's a man's job.

Milking is not necessary a mans job, but it certainly can be.

 

[The goat girl]

I milk too! But for a change, I dried everyone off and I took a short vacation from milking. I've milked the last 3 years straight. No vacation from goats, however!

That's kinda what we did, but we are starting back up!

 

[The goat girl]

Let's see... when am I ever NOT milking a goat? ;-)

LOL

 

[The goat girl]

Here, the tradition is milk. Very few people know what a delicacy goat meat is. To have a goat farm = make a living from making goat cheese. You need some 50 goats to be able to live on them. These people very seldom answer letters, for they simply have no time!

Personally, I let the kids take their choice first, and milked in the summer. When autumn came, I slaughtered and put in the freezer. When having only goat meat for dinners, I got rather tired of the taste. Most milk farm owners kill the kids at birth, having no market for the meat.

Those who have only one or two goats, have them as pets and very seldom eat them.

In older times, (before I was born!) we had a tradition here that milk was very female. For a man to milk a cow was totally out of the question! (You can read about it in Moberg's "The Emigrants", which I refer to now and then.) Even handling the milk was a female thing, which enabled women to make a living by making cheese.

Eating cheese and drinking milk was okay for a man.

I am glad that such traditions of gender roles are now mainly history. I liked it to handle the butchering, that was a breaking of tradition even when I began to do it.

Once I heard our "King of Goat Veterinary Science", Karl-Erik Hammarberg, say that some people actually had begun to breed goats for meat. It did not occur to me that people abroad have done so for centuries.

WOW how interesting!