Good place to get milk bottles or jugs?

[chicamarun]

I'm getting our new goats on Thursday... and I need something to keep and sell the milk in.

Since I am getting goats - I was thinking of quart size but need a place to purchase them from.

So suggestions would be helpful

[Feral Nature]

I use new plastic gallon water jugs. I pour out the water without contaminating the lip and then use the empty jug.

But I will be ordering from here this year hopefully:

http://www.dahltechplastics.com/

[DocM]

"milk bottles" are really expensive

I don't care for plastic. I use half gallon canning jars with plastic ball lids and charge $1 deposit on them (about what they cost me with shipping when ordered).

[A@VT]

I use 1/2 gallon canning jars too, I like the wide mouth ones because they are easier to clean.

[Tam319]

I ordered these really nice glass bottles from Lehman's Non-Electric Catalogue. They hold 1 L (I'm Canadian, eh?! LOL) and look really nice. They fit in the fridge well and wash in the dishwasher. They are glass so re-using them is safer than re-using plastics. They have a flip top with a rubber seal. They are more $ than a quart sealer but you could charge a deposit to your customers or sell them to your customers with the request to bring them back to be refilled.

Lehman's Milk Bottles

This store also has some cool home dairy supplies for butter making, etc.

Hope this helps!

[topside1]

Have your customers bring their own.

[Alice In TX/MO]

Chicama - I tried to look at your website, but the blue left edge is so dark, I can't see the menu there.

[HazyDay]

Ask them to bring their own, but if you know them well let them take the bottle and bring it back clean for another one. I did this and it worked fine!


I use half gallon and quart jars. I like the half gallon during the summer when all the does are kicking the milk out and the kids are weaned. When I am in dry up time or before the kids are weaned I use quarts.

Try going to autions. old farms some times have tons of old milk bottles for sale. I found a guy who will sell them for .50 a bottle. I just don't like how I can't get in there and clean them good.

[chicamarun]

What web browser are you using? I think it makes a difference because on everything here except when I use firefox the menu is white lettering. Sorry about that when I get time I will probably redo the whole thing - the thing is the "time" right now.

I might use the canning jars and I think I might see if people have their own.

My thing is this - I will be taking the raw milk to the farmer's market to sell "for pet consumption" because in this state (VA) we are allowed to sell it that way and I already have a waiting list. So I need to be able to transport it and have it so people will buy it and I would like to use as high standards as I can because I want it to be as safe as possible. And also marketing....

[homebirtha]

We use the 1/2 gallon canning jars too. I love the look of those Lehman's jars, but I always wondered how clean they can get in the dishwasher with such a small opening?

Weck also makes bottles that you could use for milk, but they're a little pricey, and hard to find.

[Alice In TX/MO]

I use Firefox, too. The panel is dark blue. The letters are almost dark blue.

[ladycat]

If you can find a source, glass juice jugs make good milk bottles.

[Tam319]

We haven't had trouble getting our Lehman's bottles clean in the dishwasher. I also bought a baby bottle washing scrub brush that lets me scrub the bottom if needed.