Showing posts with label milking dairy goats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label milking dairy goats. Show all posts
Sunday, July 1, 2012

Sprayer for Sanitizing Solution

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We had a brilliant idea! We have been working very hard at spraying down the does, the milk stands, and the milking area of the barn with ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Goat's Milk Butter

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I have been curious about making butter with goat's milk. I've heard it isn't as fast as making butter from cow milk, but I want...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Winner of the "Ugliest Udder" Contest!

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Well, not really. There isn't really any contest called the "Ugliest Udder" Contest. But this gal would win if there was! ...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

The New Vet and Ginger's Udder

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This is a really long post! It tries to describe what we've been trying to clear up for a year. I've kept pretty good notes, but as ...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Reason I Started Making Cheese

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I think the picture explains it all! What we usually see when we open the Milk Fridge in the summer. The three ice buckets at the botto...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Clabbered Milk: Part 5 (another try!)

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So, another failure. This time it never separated (5 days) and when I looked inside, there was yellow mold growing on top. I think my clab...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Clabbered Milk: Part 4 (failed again!)

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Another batch gone bad. It looks like yeast again. Can you see the cloth on top all poofed up? That's because something is growing o...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Clabbered Milk: Part 3 (and more to come...)

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Hmmm... I checked the clabbered milk this morning. I stirred it up a bit and it was foamy under the cream. I think that means it was contami...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Clabbered Milk: Part 2

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I've been doing some more reading about clabbered milk. Some places on the internet say to leave it in a sealed container, but more of t...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Clabbered Milk

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l had a question from someone a few weeks ago. She was told to leave her raw milk on the counter for 3-5 days and it would turn into cream c...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Experiment

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I wanted to see just how well Hubby's sanitizing solution worked on the does' udders so we did an experiment last week. I washed t...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Matitis Vaccinations

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Glacier. She was named because she got frostbite on her ears when she was a kid. We didn't own her at the time, it happened at the place...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Udder Rash

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Ginger, Vet2Be's favorite goat, has had a rash on her udder for more than two months. It hasn't gotten worse, and it hasn't gott...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Udder Rash

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Ginger, Vet2Be's favorite goat, has had a rash on her udder for more than two months. It hasn't gotten worse, and it hasn't gott...
Friday, June 5, 2009

More Treatments

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This morning I decided to treat Glacier with " Today ", an intra-mammary infusion to kill mastitis-causing organisms. Since she di...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Buddy Update and Janice's milk production

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Buddy is doing better. I almost can't believe it. He is up and walking, eating hay and grazing on the pasture. He is drinking milk and s...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Mastitis by Noah L. Goddard

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This is a post that was on Managing Dairy Goats (yahoo group). Since we have had such a battle with Glacier and mastitis again this year (al...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Cajeta

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Cajeta is a wonderful Mexican sweet sauce. It is a delicious concoction of goat milk, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. So smooth and sweet I wa...