Author Topic: Check your nipples!  (Read 6185 times)

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Check your nipples!
« Reply #15 on: June 16, 2012, 05:37:59 pm »
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if you are clear that she is not producing offpsring with a milking career planned for them you should be ok
How hereditary it is?

Northlands

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Great Ouseburn
Re: Check your nipples!
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2012, 07:33:47 pm »
:o  Seriously, learn from my mistake here and if you are buying new shiny nanny goats/goatlings in to give you lots of milk, do yourself a favour and check their teats well.
I have just discovered, upon milking Millie for the first time that she has 2 orifices in the one teat which means milk everywhere except the bucket :'( :'(
Other than a milking machine that I neither have nor can afford at the moment, I have no idea how I am going to milk her :-\
I have one with exactly the same problem. Milk everywhere when I tried to milk her once her kids had been weaned. She now is suckling twin lambs successfully. So she has her uses. I plan to try and get her in kid early for next year and then use her again for the pet lambs. Saves me bottle feeding them too.  :)

 

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