Daily Goat Milking Routine EVERY SINGLE STEP
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- Milking on the homestead… When you do it wrong it can be a real chore. But with the right routine and the best hand milking gear it can be downright therapeutic!
Each morning we lead our girls into the stanchion with a dog leash and collar. Make sure to use a thick nylon lead as it is easier on your hands if your goat is fighting to go where you want it to go as goats usually do 😉 Once our doe is in the stanchion we give her some feed, and begin our milking.
We use a dip cup to apply some iodine to her teats, and then wipe the iodine off with a few clean rags. Next we use a strip cup to make sure the milk looks clean.
Now it is time to start milking. Find a nice 9 qt stainless steel pail with a lid does a good job keeping the milk contained and not spilled, while still fitting under our girls. We use an elastic headband to wrap around the bucket and hold a piece of cheesecloth as a filter for hair and debris that may fall into the bucket.
I like to weigh the milk each day, I like using a digital scale that can tear the bucket weight for me and give me an extremely accurate measure.
Once the milk is weighed it is brought inside to be strained. We strain the milk through a filter into half gallon mason jars. 2 Good does will give at least a half gallon of milk a day, and even if you have more than that from a cow or a bunch of goats, we prefer to store the milk in half gallon jars as it keeps better than a gallon jar. Gallon Jars cool slower and each time the milk is brought out of the refrigerator more milk is being warmed, leading to the milk spoiling quicker. It is better to use smaller jars and keep excess milk in the cold refrigerator longer. Make sure to us plastic lids, and the metal lids tend to rust over time and are harder to clean.
We like to clean our milk parlor each day, I find a lightweight hose and a pressure washer adapter work nice for cleaning the parlor.
Dog Lead - amzn.to/2KoJbNG
Dip Cup - amzn.to/2QTuMNo
Strip Cup - amzn.to/2EAW1DW
9 QT Stainless Steel Milk Pail with lid - amzn.to/2LdBR6n
Elastic headbands - amzn.to/2GTVS0X
Cheesecloth - amzn.to/2Yz0Rib
Digital Scale - amzn.to/33vQ0EO
Strainer (not the one we use, closest match we could find, could not find ours online anymore…) - amzn.to/2FGVf7Z
Straining Filters - amzn.to/2LeY0ky
Half Gallon Mason Jars - amzn.to/2Ca08aF
Plastic Lids for wide mouth mason Jars - amzn.to/2rAbpLc
Lightweight Hose - amzn.to/2GVyMqq
Pressure Washer Adapter - amzn.to/2GTmU8o - บันเทิง
I love how clean your milk room is. It’s so much easier to work in.
This is too much 😆 we milk 136 cows and 47 goats every day. Without script
You daughter is so cute. She's really a good little helper. I love that. It's nice for us parents to enjoy our kids efforts that way❤️
I love the sound of the kids in the background, reminds me of hanging out with the lambs this spring. AAAA
Love this video! Thanks for the great content. You guys are so enjoyable to watch and listen to. Great helpers you got there!
Awesome dad daughter video.....loving family 👪! Thanks for sharing 🍸
Talented family and kids!!
I do understand not giving her the feed at first so she doesn't blow through it, however, it may be good to let her have it right away so she enjoys the whole experience 😊 just until she gets used to things😉
I love what you guys are doing! I am actually 14 and convinced my family to establish a mini farm, we actually live in Pennsylvania as well and my parents used to live in Connecticut just like you guys. Our goats just had their babies and your videos are getting me exited to milk!
Thats awesome that you want this life and are so young still. Tell your parents farm.life is the only life. We are buying a farm in greencastle Pa and my kids are excited to be on a farm
All right looks like it's going very well. I love how your daughter's participating she's doing a great job!💚
Seeing kids farm brings me great joy
I love how you have your daughter involved. We are in the process of buying a farm and i cant wait to have my kids out there planting blueberries and collecting chicken eggs. We are thinking of maybe a few goats too so im trying to learn as much as i can
Great video! Loved the close up of milk squirting out of the teat into the bucket. We're in PA too. If you guys do a farm show (Harrisburg), we would love to meet your family in person.
Great video my brother
💖 I truly enjoy watching you with your children.. Special memories..
Looks like it's old hat now!😉 I'm traveling in my rv fulltime and am staying at an ag pick your own farm the next 2 days. I belong to a co- op called " Harvest Hosts" who let rv-ers park for the night at farms, wineries, museums, and golf courses. You guys have your hands full but would love it if someday you could be a host. Such a down to earth family! So enjoy your videos. Oh...and some of us like you to put us to work when we visit! I bring my own muck boots and gloves😁
Great video🤗🤗🤗🤗
❓❓❓Has your young dog been sick? He looked rather empty?
You really are getting them trained...it’s so good to see how patience and care payoff.
I love how organized you guys are it makes life so much easier instead of searching. What are you guys going to do with the baby goats
It’s nice that you’re organized, it can help avoid frustration with efficiency.👍🏽. Very, very odd however that you don’t use stocks for your goat’s rear hooves and instead fight and try to avoid contamination and spilling of your milk. There are very easy methods for this.
Wow!!! What amazing kids! Y’all are doing something right❤️ it’s so nice to see how you are teaching your daughter “first things first”.
I’m so glad that you mentioned milking styles!! I am new to goats and it’s hard for me to get anything from my nanny. I have a mini LaMancha who had 3 kids in May. Now it’s August-Could she be drying up?? I will have to google STRIP MILKING!! thanks for the info😁
Did you just get her? Or have you had her since she kidded? If you had her when she kidded did she give more?
Homesteady I got her one month after she kidded . The previous owner milked her every afternoon and I think she got a quart?? It took us a while to build a milk stand so there were 2 months of no attempts to milk. And it just seems tricky. She has smaller teats and I have larger hands so I get milk on my little finger a lot of times. I supposed I just need to keep practicing. Thanks for your help!
Get you some good fly traps 😜
You have a wonderful team with you up there.. very nice innocent kids 👍👍
What ever happened to your black lab and your brown lab I haven't seen him in a while .
Pretty cool
#Askhomesteady can you tell us what camera you use?
I talk about all my gear including my Canon 80 D in this vid Jan
th-cam.com/video/Tg8k5m5BHEw/w-d-xo.html
You can instal a celing fan, at the milking station, works pretty good, for the flyes....
Good information ❤️.
By the way what medicine do you use for spray after milking?
What mixture is in the dip cup?
❤❤❤
So nice to be able to spray it all down!
why making the Goat wait for the Feed untill you start milking lol
what kind of iodine do you use on the teats?
Very beautifull ❤️ congratulations
How many times a day do you milk them
Thanks, maybe play some jazz music while milking.
Thanks maybe Play Some Jazz
music while milking xxxx💟😍
Are they first fresheners? They really didn't have that much milk. How much do they each have per day? what kind of feed is that? I don't recognize it.
Happy to see the sanitation. They do seem to be doing better.😀
how do you make your homemade salve?
What do you do as parents to get your kids so involved in the animals? I have chickens and a pig, but my kids have no interest in helping me.
#askhomesteady
Why don't you give her the food to distract her attention away from you . It could be much for you guys
Boy that final scene was effective !! The Goat milk streaming out to the eye of the camera. I'm so pleased you arent rough with the fussy girls. Fondly mrsjob
what a yoke
Hello Homesteady! I hope this message finds you well. I am a producer at INSIDER and I recently found this amazing video and we would love to feature it in one of our videos about dairy around the world! For a little knowledge about us, INSIDER is a part of Business Insider. All of your footage will be credited with your Facebook, Instagram or TH-cam page.
Please let me know if this is okay with you! You can also email me at cthallon@businessinsider.com
Why don't you use a hand milker?
Come on, you really don't need all of this to milk a goat !!
why tie up that poor dog when Millking the goats lol