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SteveElms
Ridin' The Range
I feel I should update my previous post. We now have 7 babies in the last three days. Our Nigerian older doe had triplets and one of the boers had a doeling. We weren't expecting the boers to start yet as they didn't look as far along.
As for comparing the milk - right now I have to go off memory. We bought the older Nigerian doe in milk last summer, and we fed mostly grass and some 2 nd cutting alfalfa. I also fed a sweet feed and goat chow mix, but not corn. It was rich and creamy but that was my first time drinking raw milk. We let her dry up a little earlier in the fall and then put the buck in with her in November.
We got the toggenburgs a month and a half ago from a dairy. Both does were about 3 weeks fresh. The dairy fed 4th cutting alfalfa so we bought a few bales and tried to keep their feed the same. We also feed cracked corn and sweet feed on the stand which is about what the dairy did. So far they have produced about what they did at the dairy (gallon a day for one and half gallon plus for other).
I haven't noticed a strong or goaty taste to the milk but I have noticed that it's not as rich. Lately it had a bit of an off taste but I realized I wasn't getting it cooled as quickly as I was before and the temperatures were much warmer when I was milking. No problems with that this weekend as we got hit with lots of rain, a bit of snow and 20 mph winds.
As for comparing the milk - right now I have to go off memory. We bought the older Nigerian doe in milk last summer, and we fed mostly grass and some 2 nd cutting alfalfa. I also fed a sweet feed and goat chow mix, but not corn. It was rich and creamy but that was my first time drinking raw milk. We let her dry up a little earlier in the fall and then put the buck in with her in November.
We got the toggenburgs a month and a half ago from a dairy. Both does were about 3 weeks fresh. The dairy fed 4th cutting alfalfa so we bought a few bales and tried to keep their feed the same. We also feed cracked corn and sweet feed on the stand which is about what the dairy did. So far they have produced about what they did at the dairy (gallon a day for one and half gallon plus for other).
I haven't noticed a strong or goaty taste to the milk but I have noticed that it's not as rich. Lately it had a bit of an off taste but I realized I wasn't getting it cooled as quickly as I was before and the temperatures were much warmer when I was milking. No problems with that this weekend as we got hit with lots of rain, a bit of snow and 20 mph winds.
