Interlocking rubber mats on sleeping benches?

[Green Acres Farm]

What do you mean?



There is good reason. Most get on the "raw milk" thing/hype. The issue is the bacteria's today are NOT the same strains grandpa and grandma had on their farm. They have mutated and are quite dangerous and deadly. AND you cannot see this bacteria. Goats can live with these at certain levels but we cannot.

I could care less if someone does raw or not. I just think people should fully educate themselves on the subject AND not just believe everything about how pastuerization kills everything.

"Food" for thought (pun intended)
This is a list of zoonotic illnesses.... read through and you will see how many come through milk.
http://iiad.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Meat-Goat-and-Sheep-Part-2-English.pdf

Next is a video link of a fascinating giant petri dish with e-coli and antibiotics. It is WILD!

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153674766881607

As far as Apple Cider Vinegar goes. It does not kill as much bacteria as many think.

Wow!

 

[Southern by choice]

No, we pasteurize.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

@Southern by choice , Yes, I have read up on it, but I've that probably 99% those illnesses were from people who weren't being sanitary (and I know a lot of people who aren't). I've been off and on about it. I might start pasteurizing, I sometimes do.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

@Southern by choice , what udder wash do you use? I used to use a one part water, one part rubbing alcohol wash, but it seemed so harsh.

 

[Latestarter]

I believe I've read before that many use a warm water with liquid dawn and bleach wash, followed by a warm water rinse, then milk, followed by application of fight bac &/or bag balm or whatever you're using.

 

[NH homesteader]

Yep that's what I do.

 

[Southern by choice]

@Southern by choice , Yes, I have read up on it, but I've that probably 99% those illnesses were from people who weren't being sanitary (and I know a lot of people who aren't). I've been off and on about it. I might start pasteurizing, I sometimes do.

Not necessarily.

@Southern by choice , what udder wash do you use? I used to use a one part water, one part rubbing alcohol wash, but it seemed so harsh.

We use water with a drop of soap and a drop of bleach, some use iodine/betadine before and after...
We dry, strip, and milk, then use fight bac

We stopped dipping.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Not necessarily.

Wouldn't you think most of the time, though? I know not always.

I may start pasteurizing. We'll see. Like I said, I'm off and on about it. Benefits and disadvantages to both. I want to make a wise decision.

 

[NH homesteader]

For me, the fact that if you get sick from raw milk, you get really really sick, is enough deterrent!

Sorry this is totally not the original topic.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Yes, sorry, @Jea.