Comments on: how to milk a goat (2 of 2)

By: maya

maya — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:49:50 +0000

Hi Andrea, Thanks for coming by! I hope you like your new milker as much as I like mine. The milking stand is essential to having goats, if you ask me, even if you don’t milk them. I don’t know how anyone could trim their hooves with one. Good luck!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:16:03 +0000

Hi, ya I watched the demo on maggie’s milker before but just wasn’t sure, you’ve convinced me now. So will be ordering one have a saanen doe with small teets and a pygmy doe that I plan on milking. Loved your blog and thanks you did make it seem easy (now just have to build a milking stand)

By: maya

maya — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:41:00 +0000

Hello Elsie,
Thanks for stopping by! You can get this milker at http://www.maggidans.com
They are great folk. Tell ‘em I sent you.
maya

By: Elsie

Elsie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:04:08 +0000

Morning! Well, today was my first milking day with our 2 Oberhalsi’s! Sheeee! Their teats are sooo little that it was impossible to get a good grip and have any milk come out. My husband was there and I ask him to give it a try! The bugger got some milk out!!! I tried several more times and still no luck. The kids were very impatient waiting for their morning milk. PLEASE, where can I buy this milking machine you use?? That just might be the answer I need! Thanks for all the good info. Elsie

By: maya

maya — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:03:36 +0000

Hello Hope, Thanks for stopping by!

No, I don’t filter. With the milker you get a closed system, the clean container, the clean tube, the clean milker and the clean teat. There isn’t any chance for dirt or hair or whatever to get into the milk the way there is with hand milking. Woo hoo for having one less step to do, haha.

I hope you like the milker!
Maya

By: Hope

Hope — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:52:02 +0000

After reading post #1 I ordered the milker from Maggidan’s. We will give it a try tomorrow as I my arm is getting pretty tired milking those tiny teats on my Nigerian doe!

BTW you also forgot to mention filtering the milk (unless you don’t do it). I filter mine right after milking into sterilized mason jars that have been sitting in a bowl of ice. I then put the jar with the bowl and all into the freezer to cool that way it reaches the desired temperature just a little quicker.

Thanks for the blog it was very helpful and funny as well.

By: Barb

Barb — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:44:20 +0000

Thank you so much for making the process of milking a goat seem like so much fun ~ and you should totally get a commission on the milkers, I think I will be ordering one very soon…