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06/11/12, 11:32 AM
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Does anyone milk ONCE a day?
And leave the kids on 27/7?
We are going to be breeding our doe next month but I want to leave her kids with her and milk once a day for us.
Does anyone do this?
I DONT want a bottle baby (or 3) because our doeling is a bottle baby and she NEVER SHUTS UP!!!! And I want our doe to finally, after 6 years of life, raise her own babies.
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06/11/12, 11:42 AM
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I'm leaving Aster's three week old buckling on her, 24/7. I milk her twice a day, getting about 1/2 gallon per day.
One of the reasons for milking her twice a day is that she gets fed on the milkstand. Making THAT MUCH milk, she needs the extra meal.
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06/11/12, 11:43 AM
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Last season, we milked once each day and separated kids from dams at night. When the kids were 2 weeks old, we started putting them in the "sleeping stall" for the night. In the morning, dam got milked, and then the kids and dams were re-united for the day. This worked very well for us and the goats. We're doing almost the same this year, only as the kids hit about 8-10 weeks old, we're also separating them for a while in the afternoon/evenings so we milk twice each day. The evening milkings aren't as productive, but the overall production is up.
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06/11/12, 11:44 AM
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We have ND's, so don't get as much milk. We have locked the kids in a seperate stall from the moms' at night and then milk them out in the morning and put the kids back with them throughout the day.
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06/11/12, 12:24 PM
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I do that with mine, though the 11 week old kids are sleeping separately now. You can do it after 2 weeks, but I waited later. It can work 
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06/11/12, 12:30 PM
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Thats WONDERFUL guys!
My schedual is crazy but I think I will be able to manage a once dayly milking three days a week and my mum the other four.
And sure, if her hands are not up to it at least we will have some wonderful babies.
The closest land with house we could find for her to rent is 12 miles away so gas has to factor into everything I do now.
Why is it that we can manage money or land but not both lol!
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06/11/12, 12:53 PM
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Why is it that we can manage money or land but not both lol!
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Because we are crazy goat people that the rest of our friends will NEVER understand!! 
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06/11/12, 01:39 PM
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I normally milk twice a day and when I take the kids off, I keep them off and start them on Purina Goat Grower. The weaned kids always seem to do great on that feed.
If I know I am going to be gone in the evening, I adjust my milking times for that day.
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06/11/12, 03:04 PM
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We do. Our doe had quints.... we kept 3 and milk once a day getting around a half a gallon.
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06/11/12, 04:14 PM
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Leaving the kids on and milking once a day works great for me. I still feed her twice a day for the milk production.
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06/11/12, 05:05 PM
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I would still have bottle feeding equipment ready, just in case she doesn't take care of them. Sometimes there are goats that you HAVE to bottle raise the kids. Who knows - she might be one of 'em. Especially having not raised her own for 6 years.
As for me... I'd rather take LOUD over dam raised babies that you can't get within 20' of and are impossible to catch. That's just me. 
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06/11/12, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by mygoat
I would still have bottle feeding equipment ready, just in case she doesn't take care of them. Sometimes there are goats that you HAVE to bottle raise the kids. Who knows - she might be one of 'em. Especially having not raised her own for 6 years.
As for me... I'd rather take LOUD over dam raised babies that you can't get within 20' of and are impossible to catch. That's just me. |
Will dam raised by a very calm nice goat still be wild?
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06/11/12, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by LearningLife
Last season, we milked once each day and separated kids from dams at night. When the kids were 2 weeks old, we started putting them in the "sleeping stall" for the night. In the morning, dam got milked, and then the kids and dams were re-united for the day. This worked very well for us and the goats. We're doing almost the same this year, only as the kids hit about 8-10 weeks old, we're also separating them for a while in the afternoon/evenings so we milk twice each day. The evening milkings aren't as productive, but the overall production is up.
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We did that in previous years, but this year, we just left the kids on the dams b/c of the move.
As soon as those little stinkers are weaned, I'm getting my milk again!
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06/11/12, 07:10 PM
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When dam raising, yes, I have. It works well. The thing you have to remember is to milk her from day one, even though she is dam raising.
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06/11/12, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by chamoisee
When dam raising, yes, I have. It works well. The thing you have to remember is to milk her from day one, even though she is dam raising.
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What do I do with the colostrum milk? Shouldnt the kids get all of it?
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06/11/12, 07:49 PM
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I raise Nubians and time their pregnancies for an early spring kidding. Then I leave the kids on their dams until they're at least 2 months of age. By this time the dam's are starting to wean them and it is a good time to start taking some of their milk. My herd is very small (3 does & 1 buck) and there are only the two of us; so milking 3 does only once a day gives us more than enough milk. When we permanently separate the kids from their dams, then we start milking twice daily and all excess milk is "condensed" for winter usage. (I never milk during cold weather. Just don't want to.)
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06/11/12, 07:54 PM
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What do I do with the colostrum milk? Shouldn't the kids get all of it?
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Most dairy goats produce more colostrum than the kids can use. If left in the udder, it makes the udder hard. After the kids are born and have nursed as much as they can, I wait about 8 hours and milk the doe most of the way out. The colostrum can be frozen for emergencies. I once had people come to me needing colostrum for newborn fawns...usually it is saved for goat kids but it can be used for other species as well.
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06/11/12, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by GBov
Will dam raised by a very calm nice goat still be wild?
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All of our kids are dam raised, and we don't have any trouble with wild kids. Of course, we have a small herd and don't have much trouble spending time with them every day to get them used to human interaction. If we didn't have jobs outside the house that prevented it, we might consider bottle raising, but as it is, we can't be here to bottle feed all day.
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06/11/12, 08:35 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by motdaugrnds
I raise Nubians and time their pregnancies for an early spring kidding. Then I leave the kids on their dams until they're at least 2 months of age. By this time the dam's are starting to wean them and it is a good time to start taking some of their milk. My herd is very small (3 does & 1 buck) and there are only the two of us; so milking 3 does only once a day gives us more than enough milk. When we permanently separate the kids from their dams, then we start milking twice daily and all excess milk is "condensed" for winter usage. (I never milk during cold weather. Just don't want to.)
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Oh no you dont! You cant say something like that and not explain! 
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06/11/12, 09:19 PM
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Back to taming dam raised kids....
I'm bringing the single kids from each nursing doe into the milk house when I milk. One is a doeling, four months old. She is being trained to get on the milk stand next to her mom, and she's learning about snacks.
The buckling is three weeks old today, and he comes in for skritches. He's learning about ginger snaps fragments, too. I'm also picking each of his feet to get him used to handling, as one day he will weigh 150 pounds or more, and this work will pay off at hoof trimming time.
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