Might be getting a goat?- TODAY :)

[alsea1]

Goldie does the stamping thing too. So what I've done is grasp her teat, wait. Give her the chance to get her stamp done. Then start milking. I guess I might startle some too if someone grabbed me that way. LOL
Chill it and give it a try.

 

[Parsnip]

Milked her this evening and was almost done.....
THEN I DECIDED TO TAKE MY HAND OFF OF HER FOR ONE SECOND TO BRUSH A FLY FROM MY FACE AND SHE STEPPED IN THE MILK PAIL.
And spilled like... almost half a gallon everywhere.

I'll have to learn to act quickly when I see a leg lift up to kick the pail over

 

[SA Farm]

I'm sure she was thinking something along the lines of "That will teach YOU to stop paying attention to me for 1 second!" lol
I had to learn that lesson too If my hand has to move, so does the pail!

 

[hilarie]

Not to mention the MILK already coming in. They're like having tacos. Just one is just wrong.

 

[hilarie]

I have the fastest swoop reflex in the East. If that head even comes up out of the feed pail, even if all four are still on the floor....both my hands are on that bucket.
And for the instances that she beats you to the punch, did you know ruined milk poured on an apple tree makes the best tasting apples in the world?

 

[SillyChicken]

nah, now you have to go back and get some chickens to feed the wasted milk to... see how that works?
Congrats on your goats!

 

[hilarie]

nah, now you have to go back and get some chickens to feed the wasted milk to... see how that works?
Congrats on your goats!

I have 19 chickens, 16 chicks and 6 turkey poults coming up - they LOVE that ruined milk! (and I just love what it does to the droppings for half a day )

 

[hilarie]

It sounds like you're doing great with them - and yes, keep hand milking and you'll have Popeye forearms.
On the subject of LONG nursers, I have a yearling Oberhasli/LaMancha doeling (who *might* be pregnant - won't know for another 6-7 weeks) who is 13 months old and STILL nursing. Drives me nuts; a big chunk of milk missing twice a day when I milk out her mamma. I can't believe that Lilly is a) still nursing, and b) Claarice still LETS her. I don't really have another pen with which to separate these two, and anyway Lilly is a *wicked* escape artist who's been known to climb straight up over fences twice her height. How long does this go on?? and isn't her drinking milk not good for the microbial balance in her rumen? Don't think for a moment she doesn't have plenty of good hay at all times, and now as spring moves along, fresh green browse. Cheeky wench!

 

[Parsnip]

It sounds like you're doing great with them - and yes, keep hand milking and you'll have Popeye forearms.
On the subject of LONG nursers, I have a yearling Oberhasli/LaMancha doeling (who *might* be pregnant - won't know for another 6-7 weeks) who is 13 months old and STILL nursing. Drives me nuts; a big chunk of milk missing twice a day when I milk out her mamma. I can't believe that Lilly is a) still nursing, and b) Claarice still LETS her. I don't really have another pen with which to separate these two, and anyway Lilly is a *wicked* escape artist who's been known to climb straight up over fences twice her height. How long does this go on?? and isn't her drinking milk not good for the microbial balance in her rumen? Don't think for a moment she doesn't have plenty of good hay at all times, and now as spring moves along, fresh green browse. Cheeky wench!

That sounds exactly like Poptart