The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: kelly58 on April 30, 2014, 11:48:05 am
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Our Alpine goat has one udder filling up with milk ? She has not kidded this year. Was milked last couple of years.
If l strip it out will she start to come in milk ? Not experienced this before :thinking:
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do you mean she isnt pregnant?
i had a gg who came into milk every spring and summer even though we never bred her. we had to milk her as otherwise she would be bulging.
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I think that's a maiden milker - plumbseverywhere has one on here - if she doesn't come on for this post then may be worth sending her a PM.
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Our Alpine goat has one udder filling up with milk ? She has not kidded this year. Was milked last couple of years.
If l strip it out will she start to come in milk ? Not experienced this before :thinking:
If you want to milk her, yes start stripping her out twice a day and her milk yield should increase. She will also need appropriate amounts of concentrate/dairy nuts.
If you don't want to milk her take her food back to only hay and water for a while and keep her on a maintenance ration (I take it she's an adult and not a growing goatling?).
But hey, it's free milk!
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Our maiden has come into milk for 3 years running and her udder has just started increasing again for this season. We choose to milk her and have a yield of about 9 pints a day at her peak.
Like Anke says - its free milk and great if you want it!
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Thanks all :thumbsup: Will start milking her tomorrow, I love the milk, hence me milking her the previous years.
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Wish mine would produce milk without all the hassle of taking them to the male and then the kidding. On the other hand, I do like goat curry. :yum: