Post by loriandersen on Jun 10, 2014 23:27:00 GMT -5
Our milk from our cow was tasting so nice and sweet in the winter months, but I am noticing a bit of an off flavored aftertaste to it now. We also started to milk a goat, first time for us milking this goat. Her milk has a very strong flavor to it, not at all pleasing. We were milking another little goat for a week, her milk was sweet and fresh tasting though. This goat milk, even my 1 and 2 year olds will not drink it but for a few sips, and they drank the other goats milk just fine.
So I plan on rubbing essential oils diluted on their utters after each milking for a couple weeks, incase of infection. I am also making sure that the washing of the udders is being done with nice warm water with soap and antibacterial/fungal essential oils. [My husband has been the one milking up until now with a goat needing milking also, I think he might just use warm water, and nothing after milking]
We do not keep the bucks with the ladies, but the goat is milked once a day so she can have her babies all day long. The main things I can think of is maybe the barn conditions, and the milk not being cooled fast enough?
Our barn is were we milk. The milk stalls are clean, but the barn is not. In the winter, everything was frozen, now it is not. Is there a way to make sure that the "barn smell" does not get into the milk bucket at all? Anything that I could make or buy that would stop some of the smell and hairs from getting in the bucket? Also now it is warmer, maybe the milk is staying warm for too long? I have heard about special freezer blue things that you can stir your milk with after pasterization to cool it fast.
Any ideas on how I could make a couple small washable, reusable things like this, that we could just put into the empty buckets and have in there while we are milking, so the milk is cooling right away?
Thanks for the help.
Lori
So I plan on rubbing essential oils diluted on their utters after each milking for a couple weeks, incase of infection. I am also making sure that the washing of the udders is being done with nice warm water with soap and antibacterial/fungal essential oils. [My husband has been the one milking up until now with a goat needing milking also, I think he might just use warm water, and nothing after milking]
We do not keep the bucks with the ladies, but the goat is milked once a day so she can have her babies all day long. The main things I can think of is maybe the barn conditions, and the milk not being cooled fast enough?
Our barn is were we milk. The milk stalls are clean, but the barn is not. In the winter, everything was frozen, now it is not. Is there a way to make sure that the "barn smell" does not get into the milk bucket at all? Anything that I could make or buy that would stop some of the smell and hairs from getting in the bucket? Also now it is warmer, maybe the milk is staying warm for too long? I have heard about special freezer blue things that you can stir your milk with after pasterization to cool it fast.
Any ideas on how I could make a couple small washable, reusable things like this, that we could just put into the empty buckets and have in there while we are milking, so the milk is cooling right away?
Thanks for the help.
Lori