since milking came up, what about goats

big hunter · Nov 12, 2008

does anybody milk goats? is that more profitable then cows? ( no I'm not going to milk anything, just wondering). I like goat cheese, never drank goat milk though.

Yugrotcart · Nov 12, 2008

Friend milks about 50 goats. Him and his brother make a living at it, so it must pay.

Paul

big hunter · Nov 12, 2008

how much milk do you get from a goat?

Don-Wi · Nov 12, 2008

One major benefit that I can think of, is that it takes much less acreage to raise 50 goats than it does to raise 50 cows. The rest of the land can be cash cropped (if there's any cash really involved)

Donovan from Wisconsin

Bill(Wis) · Nov 12, 2008

You need to have a ready, willing market for your milk. I don't think the Foremost truck will pick up your goat milk. I may be wrong, but I don't think so.

John T · Nov 12, 2008

Several years ago we milked goats and enjoyed it as a hobby (plus one son was allergic to other milk except goat), I have no idea about it as a viable business. The milk tasted great but to get it that way things had to be clean and fresh including hay and feed and bedding and barn and pasture etc and MOST IMPORTANT no smelly bucks were kept anywhere near the fresh does. We had Nubians and LaMancha (no ears hardly) but Sannan and Toggenburgs were known to be good milkers.

John T

old · Nov 12, 2008

As far as how much depends on the goat. I've seen them give as much a 1/2 a gal a day to as little as a pint a day. Yep I have goats and my wife does milk a few part of the year
Hobby farm

gitrib · Nov 13, 2008

I have milked fifty goats at one time. Had a Grade A permit and made cheese. Son had been to France to learn how to make cheese there way. We just got tired of the State Dairy Inspectors. Good Toggenburg goats should average a gallon of milk a day for 305 days. They are very efficent useser if good ration Just like a Dairy cow you got to feed them. I have about 200 straws of frozen semen from the top Proven Toggenburg buck in U.S. if ther is somone interested. gitrib

buickanddeere · Nov 13, 2008

Goat and sheep cheese is very good. The goat milk in the grocery stores is too rank smelling for my tastes.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 13, 2008

Depends on how you do it. If you milk commercially and sell the milk to a creamery it can be pretty tough. If you milk and make your own product it can be fairly profitable. Cheese, ice cream, bottled milk pay pretty well if you can find a market.

We have been raising dairy goats for a while and milked both hobby and commercial grade A. In the commercial end of it we were getting .38 per lb and if we hit our premiums for butter fat, low SCC and SPC counts we could get up to .42 per lb.

On the hobby side we sell goat shares and the share owners get the milk. Works out to around $9.00 per gallon. Pretty easy to do. Just milk, filter it into glass bottles and refrigerate.

Greg

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