Milking a goat the Wanna BEE Farm way.

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello Faker 5,

Our milk is in no way as inexpensive as the white stuff you can buy in the corner gas station.

In fact since we use organic grain the cost per gallon is 2 to 3 times what you pay for the white stuff in the corner store. Our milk is a superior product, for my families consumption only. Don't try this at home if you think you are going to get cheap milk!

[fakir0005]

It is good that his man has only one goat. If he had three hundred goats he'd have needed 3000 hours to milk 300 goats and his farm would have lost money since he milks only once a day. These days the goats and cows are milked four times a day to make a profit. Feed is expensive and you've to pay for labor used to take care of animals.

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello Mrs. Tour.

We milked once a day year round for 8 years.

One trick is to adjust the protein intake of the goat to match the output of milk. We never tried to maximize production.

WBF

[mrsmagandelatour]

How many times do u milk a day

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello mrs magandelatour,

I may have not answered this before but we only milk one a day.

[yasijenny]

Thanks for sharing this, I think I just found a milker I can BORROW! Perfect!

[arizonachristian]

thank you so much for this again

i just got two nubian's and hope to start milking

[babyhorsey6]

Nice video. I bought my first goat a couple months ago and now have 4. I absolutely love them! They free range all day, free access to hay, and put themselves back in their goat house at night. They never leave our property either.

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello Apeeling,

The bucket is from Lee Valley Tool.

The current filter is from Bed Bath and Beyond

Gold coffee filter.

Hope this helps

[apeeling]

What a nice little stainless steel bucket with a lid. I am trying to find one like that. Where did you get it, and your filters?

[lcserg87]

HEY SINCE WHEN CHARLES BRONSON IS MILKING GOATS I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD

[aundreya20]

yeah i get musous to after drinking cows milk

[aundreya20]

thnk you for your response i did research and it is a lot healthier than cows milk and how old is your son i heard him in the background so cute someday i want a lil boy teehe

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Sally Fallon says that Raw cow milk is a more complete food. That is for the people who do not have issues with it. Our son gets mucous (phlegm) when drinking cow milk raw or pasteurized. Goat milk has smaller fat molecules but B6 and B12 are higher in cow milk.

The best milk for kids is moms milk.

But some moms are not thrilled to nurse after two years.

My belief is that any health animal clean raw milk is better for you then pasteurized any milk.

Hope this helps

[yankeegurl62]

my grandson CANNOT drink cows milk...he is unable to breakdown and process the protien in the milk..BUT he can drink Goats milk...and it dosen't make him sick...we live here in Florida, and Goats milk is VERY expensive here...I have to wait until we are able to move to our new home in the country before we get our nanny's..also, people don't know that it's best if you don't let the nanny's 'browes" the milk is effected by herbs they eat..sweetfeed and alpaha hay if you can afford it..good video!

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello Yankee girl,

Thank you for commenting.

On browsing. At the Wanna BEE Farm we let the goats browse as much as possible. We feel that it allows them the opportunity to use the intelligence that creator gave them to know how to take care of themselves. The milk will change taste depending on what they eat. However the goats health is more important to us then taste of the milk that they share with us. The healthier the goat is, the healthier we are.

This is my view anyhow.

Take care.

WBF

[yankeegurl62]

here in florida we have a lot of BITTER herbs...and being that goats milk is stronger than cows milk...and depending on the bread of goat you have...so to is the flavor diffrent...(you don't let your billy run with the does do you?) cause his 'scent" I've been told will taint the milk...any suggestions about your florida neighbors?

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello Yankee girl,

No bucks at the WannaBEEfarm. We go off site for aaa...service. I have heard that bucks can make the milk buckey,But have no experience with it. Our milk and goats do not stink, at least that is what some of the neighbors say. I would not dream of making suggestions on how to keep goats in FLA. It's a whole different environment then we have. We have Sannen milk goats which are from a colder regions. If I where FLA I would choose Nubians or spanish goats. Hope this helps.

[yankeegurl62]

cool!! I'll look for Sannen...My friend used to raise them when we were kids...she raised Lamancha, Nubians and she even had a sannen...they were awesome goats...and fantastic nanny's...I hated it when we had to take the babies from the Momma's...I like your method...leaving them with the Momma's during the day...and seperating them at night...so that way you don't have to deal with "scours" and they get all the Momma's good stuff!! Thanks!!

[WannaBEEfarmer]

@yankeegurl62

Wrote: >and being that goats milk is stronger than cows milk.

Fresh from the goat we do not notice that our goat milk smells or any different from cows milk.

But fresh raw cow milk has a LOT more fat, yum, yum. :-)

If we let our raw goat milk sit in the fridge for a week, it starts to have a goat smell. Most of the time the milk is consumed in two to three days.

[aundreya20]

yumm that milk looks delish

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Our son thinks so.

He has been drinking about a quart a day for about 6 years.

I guess he is our canary

My wife mostly makes ice goat milk with the rest. no heating

[aundreya20]

one more thing do you have to boil it to kill any harmful bacteria? like you would for cows milk

[aundreya20]

thats so cool a lot helathier than cows milk how much was it for that goat? i want one

[Eagleyeti124]

cool. I was wondering if u needed to pasteurize the milk for it to be safe to drink. this helped

[RawkStarrPrincess]

Great video. I have watched a few on milking goats since I dream of having a small farm one day. Your video was thorough and I appreciate that your milking areas didn't look disgusting and your goat look clean and you also brushed her and cleaned her. Also, I was curious how people strain their milk so now I have a good idea of how its done. Have you ever found hair or dirt by using your method? It seems too simple really lol. I always thought it was complicated.

[WannaBEEfarmer]

RS Princess

Thank you for commenting. For a couple of years we used a filter from Hoger goat supply that uses small filter papers. I found that that filtering was taking to long fo my liking and went to the coffee and tea filter method. Not much dirt or hair ends up in the milk or the filter.

We go to great measures to avoid contamination.

Take care.

:-)

[gokory]

oh and you don't have to pasteurize?or any fancy shmancy stuff?

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello gokory, We choose not to pasteurize. We choose to have the enzymes in our food. Thank you for you comments and questions. And now for the Disclaimer: I am not an expert. My opinions are mine. Your results may vary. Please do not blindly follow my example. Do your own research! It may not be right for you and your situation. WBF :-)

[gokory]

you can't really milk pygmies too small and often they feel uncomfortable because they are not dairy goats but if you feel like making enemies with your pygmy you can try to fit a pan under her but i find the teets are small too and they only give enough milk for the kids

[petitesphinx]

We just got 6 rescue goats. A few are pygmies and I think the female is a milking goat. How can we tell if she is the kind we can milk? And do we milk them while they are pregnant or do they have to birth first? Thank you for the video; we are new farmers trying to learn as we go.

[will3482]

I too would like to know this.

[seancheeks]

if only i cud milk ur mum like that

[Bobby05281991]

ez milker = easy milker ...good video 5 stars

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello Bobby,

Peanut is the easiest goat that I have ever milked.

We purchased her from a local breeder who was reducing her heard.

The breeder use to use peanut to teach new 4H kids how to milk.

Best deal on a goat that we have had.

Thanks for the rating and comments

WBF

[smallfarm4me]

one more question, I'm using bleach on everything I use, it takes so much longer than what I'm seeing you do. I'm using sterile gloves, the whole nine yards. You just don't seem to take all these precautions and I am wondering why. I really don't have a lot of time for overkill and could use your advice.

[WannaBEEfarmer]

I think that I answered this under contamination.

If not let me know.

Disclaimer:

I am not an expert.

My opinions are mine.

Your results may vary.

Please do not blindly follow my example. Do your own research!

It may not be right for you and your situation.

Enjoy your new goats!!

WBF

[smallfarm4me]

do you shave her udder or the area around her?

[WannaBEEfarmer]

I do shave the udder when I get around to it.

It is easier to clean up a shaved udder.

[smallfarm4me]

also, the skin on my goats udder seems to be dry, I have put on some udder balm after I put on the fight bac, should I try something else?

[WannaBEEfarmer]

The only thing that I have used, on an udder besides a very small quantity of dish soap or liquid had soap or fight back, is Molly's herbs Mastitis salve. But that was for a goat with mastitis.

You can get fancy hand soap which is less drying.

[smallfarm4me]

I have my first goat, a five year old alpine doe. I notice you don't use any spray on her teats (iodine based) before you milk her. Do you worry about the milk being contaminated etc?

What can contaminate the milk and how do I avoid it?

[WannaBEEfarmer]

My objective is to keep poop and dirt out of the milk, and get the milk from healthy animals.

People have written whole books on what can contaminate milk, the list is long.

Use clean stainless and glass ware for milk handling.

Disclaimer:

I am not an expert.

My opinions are mine.

Your results may vary.

Please do not blindly follow my example.

Do your own research!

It may not be right for you and your situation.

[abluechipstock]

good to know, i want to start milking my nigerians, i'm buying an ez milker though, i have big hands, thanks for posting

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Hello Dan,

Know what you mean about big hands.

I looked at Nigerian dwarfs when I was looking for goats.

Took one look at their udder and laughed.

There was no way I was going to try and milk one.Not sure what an EZ milker is but, the owner of the Nigerians that I visited use breast pumps to milk her goats.

Hope it works out well for you.

WBF

[Cloverdoe]

FINALLY! Someone did a video on how to milk a goat beginning to end.

Thank you!

btw - what kind of goats do you have?

[WannaBEEfarmer]

Cloverdoe

Thank you.

The original intent of this video was to show our prospective goat sitters how we did our milking.

We have Saanens, which are all white and breed original came from Switzerland.

I like more colorful goats but we picked these because of the disposition of the heard they came out of, Spruce Run Farm.

I feel that the disposition of the animals is the most important aspect, especially when you have to deal with them every day. Wanna BEE farmer

[dreakiid]

he is not a wannabe farmer he is the ish

[dreakiid]

dats cool