[NavaBoerFarm]

Yes I get the same aftertaste and my family can't stand it. I like how creamy it is so I drink it either way plus I'm sure it beats cows milk

 

[NavaBoerFarm]

So what kind of goats do you all think they use to produce the milk they sell on market? Just curious. I would love to taste the sweet milk you're all getting from your goats

 

[NavaBoerFarm]

Ahh I see so it could just be a combination of pasteurizing along with age. I like how creamy the milk is and don't really mind the aftertaste. Do you think boers produce good milk? All I have are boers lol

 

[NavaBoerFarm]

Yeah I like the saanen goats I might just get one. But wow are they big lol

 

[NavaBoerFarm]

I can't drink the stuff. That brand was the first goats milk I had ever tried and I nearly puked. It turned me off goats for years. After tasting some raw goat milk I decided goats weren't so bad. And now I love them and their milk.

Having been in and around commercial dairy goat farms I can tell you some of the many reasons the milk taste so different from the milk you will get from a backyard farm.

#1. Over pasteurization. They cook the heck out of it.
#2. Mastitis. Many of the farms do not treat mastitis until it gets bad or sometimes not at all unless the goat is bleeding into the milk.
#3. Heavy use of Swiss breeds. Many Toggenburg and some Alpines have strong milk.
#4. Deficiencies. Many animals just can't get what they need out of a one size fits all mineral.
#5. Dirty conditions. You simply can't keep a pen clean enough when you have hundreds of goats in it.
#6. They are unhappy. A stressed goat isn't going to give you its best.

I have seen one time where one of the does teats rotted off and the whole half of the udder was on its way out but they still milked the other side since it wasn't bleeding or spitting chunks into the milk. You could smell it from feet away. That's not going to make the batch of milk taste good I can tell you that much. As long as the cell counts in the bulk tank are low enough and there is no contaminants in the pasteurized milk they are A-Ok to sell.

Wow that's terrible it's almost like the cow dairy industry I'm going to try my best to get raw and healthy goat milk from now on

 

[NavaBoerFarm]

@ksalvango my doe has no milk to spare right now but when one of my does kids a single in march ill milk her for myself

 

[NavaBoerFarm]

@liz I have a boer dairy cross doe and easily handled. I just never tried milking any of my does,I know unbelievable I can't believe it myself now that I think about it lol. But now I look forward to milking them when they kid