Surge milker question

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If we got a surge milker, something like this...

http://cgi.ebay.com/SURGE-MILKER-BUC...QQcmdZViewItem

What else do we need to go with it? Does it take different rubber parts for a goat than it does a cow? Is it worth having to clean it? I'm thinking of next year when we have 4-5 milkers.


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[Tana Mc]

You will need to buy shells and inflations for goats.
We have used that same type of set up only we did not use it as set up for cows....... that means I didn't like having to set it right up under the goat's belly. I used longer tubing with cut off valves so that I set the bucket on the floor between two milking stands. I milked two goats at a time.

After a few years, I decied that the belly buckets were too hard to see into to get really clean. I just took my surge lid and set it on top of an old Delaval bucket ( tall buckets with a handle). As long as I applied pressure to the lid when we first turned on the machine and let the vaccum build up, it worked just fine.


Tana Mc

[coso]

Your vaccum pump, you'll need different lines for goats and I would get different inflations. You might use those shells I don't know.