![]() ![]() I'm not going to say that one method is better than the other. There are two groups of people who milk dairy goats: those who "pull" the kids at birth and bottle feed them (like the dairy farmers I talked about above), and those who let the does raise their kids. And this secret made my husband very happy! You can let your does raise their kids, have fresh goat milk in the refrigerator and still have a life by milking once per day. There is a secret to goat keeping and not being tied down to a 12-hour milking schedule. ![]() However, I'm also going to share a secret with you about NOT milking for a day, or a weekend, or while you're on vacation! Keep reading! You can't decide to milk at 6 am today and at 10 am tomorrow. Keep in mind that you still need to milk every 24 hours. Or you can milk them once per day like I do! And if you are the only milkmaid in the family, that task will always be yours. ![]() You can decide on the time you will milk each day, whether it's at 4 am, or 6 am, 8 am or even later, but twelve hours later, you need to milk again.Īnd tomorrow you need to milk at the same time that you milked today. That's a lot of milk! And a lot of time spent milking, too. The babies, either kids or calves, are raised on a bottle, and the does or cows are milked twice per day, twelve hours apart, for maximum milk yield. Most dairy farms, whether they raise and milk goats or cows, take the babies away from the mothers soon after birth. Here is how you can milk goats just once a day.ĭairy goats, like other mammals, only produce milk after they have given birth to their kids. Are you wishing you could have dairy goats but don't want to milk them twice a day? You don't have to be tied down to milking your goats every twelve hours. ![]()
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