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My wife is wanting to start keeping dairy goats to help feed the kids. I don't have any dairy equipment, so I asked my grandad who used to milk cows. Grandad said he had a home pasteurizer, but he thought it stopped working at one point. I found it in his attic, with a sears repair tag from 1974. Grandad said "maybe we got it fixed". I got it home and no heat. Got to looking at the repair tag and it said "needs timer, parts NLA". Being an old tractor guy, I knew what "NLA" meant. I took the bottom cover off, plugged it in and no power at cord terminals. I replaced the cord and it worked. I was pretty proud of myself, I just fixed a sixty year old appliance that the appliance repair guy said he couldn't repair thirty eight years ago! The pasteurizer is a "farm master by sears and roebuck". Only info I could find online is that they sold in the '51-'52 winter sears catalog. Sure is a good feeling for me when I repair and put to use Grandad's stuff. I am using Grandma's canner, other Grandma's jars, Grandad's chiansaws, and now Grandad's pasteurizer. Have a great new year- Morgan
 
before you get all excited ,make sure thermostat cuts off like it should. repair man may have cut cord or whatever to stop it from catching fire. Most new equipment has limit switches or fuses to stop them from getting too hot but a lot of old things didnt. Hopefully youve got it fixed but test it out good just to be safe. Some of this old stuff is good, some of it wasnt so good compared to todays equipment. wish i had known anyone was looking for milk equipment, just saw a complete setup sell for less than $100 a week ago. a single unit that had the cups for both goats and cows. looked like it was in good shape also. sure would beat milking by hand.
 
I've "pasteurized" several buckets of water, heats up to temp then cuts off. Had to play with thermostat for several hours to get it to cut off at right temperature. I love how on old stuff everything is fixable and adjustable.
 
Hope it works out for you, but can't you get a milk cow instead? I just despise goats.

I never looked out in the yard and saw one of our milk cows standing on the hood of my new pick up.

Gene
 
We had a couple of does for awhile years ago, and never bothered to pastuerize the milk.

Couple of tips-
Cool the milk as fast as you can, to avoid the "billy goat" flavor. Best to put it in pint jars, in the freezer for a half hour, then in the refer. Once its cold, you can consolidate into larger containter if you want. If you put it in a gallon jug in the refer to cool it, I guarantee it will be a very short-lived experiment in goat dairying. "EEUUWW, Mom, this stuff is gross"!

Also, best not to have a billy goat, but if you must, keep him well separated from the does. If they are allowed to get near him, the milk will end up tasting a lot like he smells.

4 foot high woven wire fencing, with 2 electric wires- one with stand-off insulators about "goat head high", another on top of the woven wire. Goats hate electricity. Make sure it is working well when you first put them in the pen- they'll sniff it out of curiosity, get zapped, and will never get near it again. Without electric wires, you'll have a constant battle. We even had one who could climb woven wire, then roll herself over the top.
 
We have goats and my parents had goats and so did my grandfather. Most of the time none of the milk was ever done any thing to other then strained and cooled. You do want to try to keep the buck away from the does when your milking them or the milk can have an off taste to it. Goat milk is in fact better for a person then cows milk is and is less likely to cause milk related problem
 
We had the same model from Sears from the same era. I'm not sure what happened to it; it might still be in the basement of the farm house. MY brother seldom throws anything away.

Unfortunately, our son worked summers for my brother from age 11 until he graduated from college - and he picked up that bad habit of not throwing anything away from my brother!
 
You have to do a little research and find the proper ways to care for goats. My daughter and her ex tried raising them but kept having trouble with them being sick and dying, so they gave it up. (I don't think he half tried anyway). On the other hand, several years ago a retired lady from somewhere up north bought a farm a few miles from here and started a goat heard. They now have a booming business selling milk, cheese and other products.
 
i always heard sheep spent their time looking for new ways to die, but don't know if that holds for goats. they stink about the same.
 
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