05/27/07, 08:40 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: North of Houston TX
Posts: 4,817
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Find a delaval style can...3 gallon is fine, 5 gallon if it's all you can find on ebay. Then come to our forum dairygoatinfo.com and find Chris who sells the machine part for $200 that includes shipping it to you....Partsdepartmentonline.com and also Paul Hamby put together inflations/shells, lines shutoffs, claws, pulsators attached to the lid to fit your can you buy for just over $200. Just under if you are only going to milk one...you can add two later if you want to just start with one. Once you use a system you will quickly learn just how easy this is to do yourself...but you have to see and use it to do this.
I just put this exact thing together for a customer of mine for right over $600 with shipping...he wanted a new 5 gallon can....on ebay on the cheap you can easily take $100 off of that. Milk only one goats, he wants to milk two, and it's another $50 to $60....Go surge pulsator instead of Interpulse....or clawless and it's even cheaper.
Hand milking is fine for a few does, but certainly if you are going to do this full time and milk very many a milking machine is the only way to go. And with a machine like this that really is nothing more than the sale of one really nice goatling or two off your farm...go for it! You will not be dissapointed. Vicki
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Vicki McGaugh
Nubian Soaps
North of Houston TX
www.etsy.com/shop/nubiansoaps
A 3 decade dairy goat farm homestead that is now a retail/wholesale soap company and construction business.
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