Guest guest Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 I'm new to this, so please tell me what does "3 weeks or 5 weeks FRESH" mean? Wow, that's a lot of milk. Thanks, Patty:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Thanks for the info!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Fresh means that they have just started to milk. So a doe that is 3 weeks fresh has been milking 3 weeks in this lactation (milking). Cows and goats milk more at the beginning then as the lactation progresses they will go down a bit in milk production until they come to the end of the milking. Some can loose a lot in this progression and some stay close to the same amount all the way through. Hope this helps you understand more about milking. Depending on the breed of goat the numbers can be high or low. A well bred Sannen or Nubian should be milking about 16 lbs a day at freshening. Chris I'm new to this, so please tell me what does "3 weeks or 5 weeks FRESH" mean? Wow, that's a lot of milk. Thanks, Patty:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Noah, I'm just curious. Is this an official milk test? We weigh our milk at every milking. 14 pounds is an incredible amount of milk. Our best milker will be four this year, we are anxious to see what she produces at her peak this year. Last year and the prior year it was 8 pounds a day, and then she steadied out at 4 pounds daily with two milkings. Starlene ----- Original Message ----- We just completed our milk test this evening and 8-year-old Goddard Farm Dominique milked 14 lbs. at 5 weeks fresh. He daughter, Goddard Farm Bambi, sired by GCH+*B Split Creek Spinning Top, milked 14.1 lbs. Bambi is also the mother of quad does this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Starlene, Yes, We are on standard [twice a day] official DHIR with Heart of America DHIA. Our official milk samples are taken monthly by a licensed dairy tester and sent to the H.O.A. Lab in Manhattan, Kansas where they are processed. The results are then sent by them to USDA and the American Dairy Goat Association eventually gets them from USDA. So anyone interested in purchasing breeding stock from us is able to confirm and verify our official milk records by inquiring through ADGA. In addition, we also take somatic cell count. We are on the PC-DART on-the-farm computer program so we download those records which are published to a bulletin board the next day and we know our cell counts in a timely manner. The other advantages of the PC DART program is that it is a complete dairy management program. Obviously, you have to type in the information but it calculates the amount of feed-to-milk production costs, kidding dates, breeding dates, and a whole host of other useful cost management information. My wife does all of that work for our herd and she just loves the PC DART program. We do have some good milkers. Bambi was 14.1, Dominique was 14, Midnight 12.1, Dawn 11.4, Nayoma 8.6, na 8.5, Ozwakie, a first freshener barely fresh 10 days did 6.9 and Scrap, who lost half of her udder to mastitis, milked 7.1 out of one side. We used to use a hanging scale but have used a Tru-Test milk meter for about ten years now. It is hooked into the milk line so we measure our milk every day to plot the production curves. Noah Re: MILK TEST Noah, I'm just curious. Is this an official milk test? We weighour milk at every milking. 14 pounds is an incredible amount ofmilk. Our best milker will be four this year, we are anxious tosee what she produces at her peak this year. Last year and theprior year it was 8 pounds a day, and then she steadied out at 4pounds daily with two milkings.Starlene----- Original Message -----We just completed our milk test this evening and 8-year-oldGoddard Farm Dominique milked 14 lbs. at 5 weeks fresh. Hedaughter, Goddard Farm Bambi, sired by GCH+*B Split CreekSpinning Top, milked 14.1 lbs. Bambi is also the mother of quaddoes this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Hi " Starlene " I've posted a copy of the offical 305 day DHIA record for one of my first fresheners. Barakel (Bare requa`el) was 1 year, 3 months old when starting this lactation. She was cycling during test number 4. I blew number 5 by letting the baby girls out to play, but not the working ladies. This floated like a lead ballon! Test 7 was effected by the neighbor's dog getting loose and scaring ALL the girls very badly. 's Law DEFINITELY applies to DHIA/R testing! Best wishes, Billie R. Paxton HalleluYah Toggs Output from " Get goat pedigree and yield information " Explanation of goat testday data Sex Animal Sire Dam Alias Birth Src Mod date Codes F TOUSA000001253895 TOUSA000000629315 TOUSA000001188859 20030304 B 20030710 1 PB 00 00 Key=1079256 HALLELUYAH TOGGS BARAKEL Goat TOUSA000001253895 key=1079256 Yield data used in July 2005 genetic evaluation Actual ME Lac Fresh DIM Herd CtrlNo Proc_Date Mod_Date LT TC Opn Milk Fat Prot Milk Fat Prot TT 1 2004/06/20 305 54185501 2 2005/07/26 2005/11/09 2 0 -1 4521 135 114 6500 200 172 20 Data for all kiddings 1990 and later Goat TOUSA000001253895 key=1079256 Lac Fresh DIM Herd CtrlNo Proc_Date Mod_Date LT Mk LI TC OS% PC Opn DCR Milk Fat Prot DCR SCS Bth NTD 1 2004/06/20 345 54185501 2 2005/07/26 2005/07/27 2 10 0 0 0 0 -1 100 4210 127 106 99 5.78 2 10 Goat TOUSA000001253895 key=1079256 Lac Fresh DIM Herd CtrlNo Proc_Date Mod_Date DRPC 1 2004/06/20 345 54185501 2 2005/07/26 2005/07/27 07 LT Mk LI TC OS% PC Opn DCR Milk Fat Prot DCR SCS Bth NTD 2 10 0 0 0 0 -1 100 4210 127 106 99 5.78 2 10 DIM Milk Fat% Prot% SCS Freq Test Date 1 21 14.0 3.4 2.8 3.6 2 2004/07/10 2 49 18.8 2.7 2.5 6.7 2 2004/08/07 3 77 17.6 2.8 2.5 5.0 2 2004/09/04 4 105 -15.0 2.9 2.4 4.9 2 2004/10/02 5 140 13.9 3.5 2.5 6.6 2 2004/11/06 6 168 17.3 2.7 2.4 5.8 2 2004/12/04 7 224 14.0 3.2 2.6 6.7 2 2005/01/29 8 252 12.4 3.0 2.5 6.4 2 2005/02/26 9 280 12.5 2.7 2.5 6.3 2 2005/03/26 10 315 12.5 2.9 2.4 6.1 2 2005/04/30 345 4210 127 106 305 4521 135 114 <-- Calculated from this herd only > > Noah, I'm just curious. Is this an official milk test? We weigh > our milk at every milking. 14 pounds is an incredible amount of > milk. Our best milker will be four this year, we are anxious to > see what she produces at her peak this year. Last year and the > prior year it was 8 pounds a day, and then she steadied out at 4 > pounds daily with two milkings. > > Starlene > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > We just completed our milk test this evening and 8-year-old > Goddard Farm Dominique milked 14 lbs. at 5 weeks fresh. He > daughter, Goddard Farm Bambi, sired by GCH+*B Split Creek > Spinning Top, milked 14.1 lbs. Bambi is also the mother of quad > does this year. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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