Goat easy to milk... until she’s not!

She's a Nigerian Dwarf, right? Are you separating overnight? If you are, 250 ml is not much milk at all. My first freshener is giving me around 700 ml at the morning milking. We started separating her from the kids at night so at 2 weeks so we could have the overnight milk (and so the kids would start eating more grain and hay). To be fair, I get barely any when I milk her at night before separating... but her last remaining kid is 10 weeks now so we'll be using teat tape during the day pretty soon.

 

What a great idea!

 

A milking machine is a big help. We converted one of the old cow milkers into one for the nigerians. You can see it on my .com page. I couldn't do it by hand on the little girls. When I was younger and had nubians I milked by hand but these little girls are small teats and love to dance on the milk stand. The machine is quicker.