Milking for the 1st time tomorrow..............

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Ok.......so the babies were born Wed. late morning. I had no idea I needed to milk out the Mama. The babies are nursing very well and they get the teat in their mouths and suck for a good while and they both seem very happy and content. No crying unless they are looking for Mama.

But I am thinking that since they are so tiny right now and not drinking nearly what she is producing (her udder is very large) I want to go ahead and milk her out tomorrow morning.

I have a very nice milking stand that a man from church made for me, heavy duty wooden, very nice. I have had her up there before to do her feet so she is familiar with it. The thing is that every time I try to touch her udder she kicks away from me. How am I going to milk her? I don't want her to fall off the stand with her neck in that vice and hurt herself.

And suggestions for a new milker? I was going to put a nice big bucket of grain in front of her and hope for the best.

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Put the milk stand up against the wall and give her some grain. Then sit next to her and pin her to wall with your body and hold a pint or quart jar and milk one teat out at a time. Let her know in a friendly nice way that YOU are the boss and she will be milked. They get used to it. And they like it. I have only had one doe out of many, many who never got used to the idea of standing while she was milked, but she was milked anyway. You cannot have a goat in milk and not milk her. If you suspect mastitis you must miilk her out many times a day or you will have a very sick doe. You may not notice how sick she is if you are a beginning goat owner before it is too late. Milk , MILK MILK!!! Once you put her on a milking schedule, she will meet you expecting to be milked and you will both enjoy the time together.

Rhonda in Alaska with 2 feet of snow! Only milking 6 goats now. Soon to be milking 45.

Milking for the 1st time tomorrow..............

Ok.......so the babies were born Wed. late morning. I had no idea I needed to milk out the Mama. The babies are nursing very well and they get the teat in their mouths and suck for a good while and they both seem very happy and content. No crying unless they are looking for Mama.

But I am thinking that since they are so tiny right now and not drinking nearly what she is producing (her udder is very large) I want to go ahead and milk her out tomorrow morning.

I have a very nice milking stand that a man from church made for me, heavy duty wooden, very nice. I have had her up there before to do her feet so she is familiar with it. The thing is that every time I try to touch her udder she kicks away from me. How am I going to milk her? I don't want her to fall off the stand with her neck in that vice and hurt herself.

And suggestions for a new milker? I was going to put a nice big bucket of grain in front of her and hope for the best.

~ a ~www.farmgirlhaven.comwww.homesteadblogger.com/MyFarmgirlHaven/http://my.tupperware.com/ROBERTA67