I need to know how you guys do this...

[deafgoatlady]

I was wondering how do u guys paterized the milk and colostrum too?? I wanted do learn how do this.. And also I would like to know how do this becuz I wanna do the CAE preventation. And Or will it better for me is to buy milk replacer or what??? Thanks for input..

[AnnaS]

Pasteurizing milk is easy. All I use is a stainless steel stock pot and a digital cooking thermometer. I heat the milk to 180 F, stirring sometimes. Milk is pasteurized when it hits 165 F but I go to 180 F in case there's a cooler part in the middle, or foam on top that doesn't get heated enough.

I cool the pasteurized milk in a double sink. The stock pot of milk goes in one sink. I run the cold water into that sink and it overflows into the other sink. The constant flow of cold water and some stirring cools the milk quickly.

Heat treating colostrum is difficult. The colostrum must be held at 141F (or 60 C) for one hour. 60 C for 60 minutes. If it goes up to 145 F, most of the antibodies are killed. If the temp is too low, or not held for an hour, CAE viruses can survive.
I slowly heat colostrum in a double boiler. When it's about 130 F, I pour it into a quart jar. The quart jar goes into a pot of 145 F water and the colostrum stirred until it gets to 141 F. Start the timer when the colostrum reaches 141 F. I add hot water to the pot slowly but often, stir the colostrum occasionally to keep the temp even, and watch the thermometer. I reset the hot water heater to 145 F a couple of days before kidding. It's usually 141 F when it gets to the kitchen sink.

Some goat raising vets use a thermostatic hot plate with a magnetic stirrer. It's a piece of lab equipment that will heat a liquid to a certain temp, hold it at that temp, & stir it. I've seen them on E-Bay for $300-$500.

I keep some cow colostrum from a Level V Johnnes free herd in case I overcook the goat colostrum.

[Mrs. Jo]

I sell my raw goat "stuff" for $$$.

The kids get pasteurized cows milk from the store, plus a colostrum replacement powder made by goats prefer.

They do get heat treated goat colostrum. We do that in a double boiler set up. Although I have heard folks talking about a thermos set up too. Colostrum need to be heated to 135 for one hour. milk needs to get to 165 for two minutes and then rapid cooling.

Milk from the store works pretty well, only problem we have had is constipation in some of the kids.