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Backyard dairy goats! - 4/13/2013 2:36:01 PM   
ARIES83


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I saw this and thought the goat milking shed was
cute, I think growing up on a farm would be great
for kids.

Have many people here tried goat dairy products?
You can make ice cream apparently.

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/13/2013 3:03:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		I haven't tried goat's milk yet, but I know a lot of people that are allergic to cow's milk can drink it w/o problems.

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 9:59:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have to assume you've never spent much time around goats. I'd much prefer a nice brown Jersey heifer.

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 4:44:26 PM   
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Yes I've heard the milk is pretty good compared to
cow's milk.

Desfip,
The time I've spent around goats in my life can be
measured in minutes....
Are you talking about the headbutting and chewing
on things?

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 5:02:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Aries,I think Des was talking about the smell of a goat.A billy goat can be one smelly creature and the nanny [female]not far behind.They are pretty good BBQ'ed though....

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 5:24:35 PM   
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Yes I've heard the milk is pretty good compared to
cow's milk.

Desfip,
The time I've spent around goats in my life can be
measured in minutes....
Are you talking about the headbutting and chewing
on things?


Goats stink... Badly...

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 5:26:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had always heard that goat milk tastes funny.  Gary's sister started keeping milking goats and gave us some milk.  She takes very good care of her milk, putting it on ice just as soon as she is done milking and even before walking it to the house.  I can't tell the difference between her goat milk and cow's milk.  Gary's daughter didn't like goat milk as she'd tried it years ago.  She was finally persuaded to try this goat milk and loves it.  Gary's sister makes some great cheese out of it and some super dips for chips and veggies.  The best part is that it is all organic with no hormones and antibiotics in it.  As long as I drink a glass of the goat milk once a day I never get heartburn.  It's almost time to head north again (we're snowbirds) and get some of that good milk again. 

I got to milk one of the goats one evening.  It was easy.  The only negative thing I can think of with keeping goats is that you HAVE to milk twice a day.  If you want to be away from home then you have to make arrangements for someone else to do the milking.  I always know when Gary's sister is a little late milking.  The goats start to make all kinds of noise to remind her they are waiting.  She's also lucky that she has granddaughters who live just down the road who can milk when she can't be there. 

We also get free range chicken eggs from her and some lovely duck eggs too.  I've heard the best cake bakers only use duck eggs.  These are special laying ducks and they lay about 330 eggs a year.  I'm hoping her turkey flock gets big enough to be able to have one of her turkeys for dinner one year. 

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 5:33:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Billy's smell bad because they pee all over themselves to attract the females. Apparently it is quite the turn on for goats

My ex mother in law has a farm, and they do goat and cow products. She makes all kinds of things out of the goat milk, all of which are quite tasty. My favorite though is the goat milk soap. Awesome stuff


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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 5:56:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		One of the girls drinks goats milk. She loves it.
That was really cute. That kid seemed to enjoy himself. I grew up with animals...horses chickens etc. it was awesome!

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 6:33:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		My slave mad a funny face when she saw goat's milk on the shopping list. I like it, it still taste like real milk compared to how cow milk tastes nowadays.

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 6:42:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you are used to cow's milk, goat's milk will taste odd. I grew up on goat's milk, never developed a taste for cow's milk, and haven't been a regular milk drinker since I was a kid.

We just kept females, who I don't remember as smelly. We took them to be bred.

I recommend starting with chickens before taking on as big a commitment as goats.

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/14/2013 8:46:41 PM   
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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 3:15:39 AM   
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This is very true, I tasted the goats ill and it was NOTHING like regular milk.


As I said earlier, it all depends on whether it was handled correctly.  I never had goat milk until 3 years ago as I'm a city girl.  Gary and I drink 2 gallons of cow milk when we are not in Montana.  The goat milk tastes just like the cow milk to us. 

Too bad we can't do taste tests online so I could prove my point. 

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 6:24:49 AM   
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I don't know what some people were feeding their goats to make them smell so bad, but that wasn't my experience with them. They don't smell more so than any other farm animal, if anything less.

Those critters can jump, though, I'll say that. Found one on top of a chicken coop one day, trying to figure out how to get down, and there was no point lower than 7 feet around the whole structure. If you want to keep them out of the garden you need a high fence.

Their milk is a lot closer to human milk than cow's milk, which is why goat's milk is much healthier for human kids (and adults who still drink it) than the high casein cow's milk, which is formulated by nature to get the calf to 600 lbs. very quickly.

Anyway, the folks I was living with raising those critters figured out they should have another garden for the goats and pigs (you don't have to get fancy, and obviously weed pulling is not required), the goat's milk and pork roast from that tasting much better than what you get out of the grocery store, by a wide margin. If raising chickens in small numbers, always leave one egg where it was lain, or the hens move that production elsewhere on the next go round, meaning you'll have to go on another Easter egg hunt every time. The egg you leave OTOH doesn't get moved, so you pick that one up the next time.

(And the Sensimelia should not be grown close at all to the squash, and ... )

Ooops, sorry.

Wow, that was a long time ago, wasn't it?



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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 2:57:10 PM   
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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 4:54:52 PM   
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That's why you grow a separate plot for that purpose, if you're going to do goats at all.

It's cheap, lack of otherwise needed fence playing a great part in the low cost.

They don't care about cabbage if you've got what you (and they) want them to eat elsewhere.

That hog that was almost 100% Romaine or otherwise heirloom lettuce fed from toss-outs at a restaurant (this was years ago) and was the last thing I remember of pork or any other such thing before I went 10+ years vegetarian.

Don't "ax" me why, but that roast was about the best thing I ever tasted and I still had hardly any trouble abstaining after that.


It takes a hog to teach a human the value of heirloom red and green lettuces.

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 5:00:45 PM   
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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 6:50:24 PM   
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Desfip,
The time I've spent around goats in my life can be
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Are you talking about the headbutting and chewing
on things?


The chewing I could handle, the head butting makes me think of goat chops cooked with garlic.

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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 7:38:07 PM   
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RE: Backyard dairy goats! - 4/15/2013 8:46:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh, they couldn't possibly smell that bad!?
I have heard that the males smell... I don't know
about anyone else, but I definitely would NOT
want to be drinking the milk from male dairy goats...

Apart from that idea, this thread is making me
hungry for sure. I saw goat milk in my supermarket
yesterday, I'm curious to try it now.

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