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Author Topic: How time consuming is milking a goat?  (Read 7378 times)

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: How time consuming is milking a goat?
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2012, 09:55:58 pm »
I do the latter. I like the kids being with their mums during the day, and it works for me only milking in the morning.

kelpy

  • Joined Jun 2011
Re: How time consuming is milking a goat?
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2012, 10:31:08 pm »
hi,
you could just leave the kid on her all the time
& milk the other side once a day at a time to suit you.

also have a goat who loves milk,she's desperate to get at her milk when i have to milk her,so she gets some. ::)

she also got to some bottles of milk that i put on the side when i went to get the kids,& she'd emptied them.
she'd never had a bottle in her life!
goats is funny critters

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: How time consuming is milking a goat?
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2012, 12:16:34 am »
Curry, who is now nearly ten months old, is always trying to get at the bottle when I'm feeding Cloud.  I have an animal feeding bottle which doesn't hold enough so I take the rest out  in a baby bottle and he tries to suck at the teat.  Not much good when it's standing upright.   ;D

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: How time consuming is milking a goat?
« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2012, 06:29:23 am »
That Curry sounds like a real character!  :D

 

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