Milk that taste different every now and then

[julieq]

Drinking it raw avoids that goatiness in most cases. Do you need to pasteurize for some reason? Why not drink it raw? Much better for you, unless you have a particular reason to pasteurize.

Understand that your body will not utilize the calcium from pasteurized milk, either, so don't consider that as your main source of dietary calcium. I was pretty shocked when I learned this......thanks to a good doctor.

Yep. Only goaty tasting milk I ever experienced was pasteurized. That was before we did the research as a family and found out how much better raw milk was for us! We use all raw milk in our cooking.

 

[whetzelmomma]

I read somewhere (and I can't remember where... sorry) that the amount (or really lack of amount) of water they drink can affect the flavor too. Made sense at the time I read it... I wonder, since your off days are irregular, if it isn't related to days when your does are drinking less water?

 

[Goatmasta]

My Dad always said that you need to feed your dairy animals some good hay about 30 mins before you milk them. He says that the milk always taste like their breathe smells... i.e. if they have been munching on onions the milk will taste like onion. Or a bitter weed of some sort will change the taste of the milk. Since the old man milked cows for yrs I usually listen to him.

 

[mabeane]

Because I have very cold water (from the bottom of the well) I run it a bit and out the filtered milk in a bucket of the water and then run the water at a drizzle over the quart.
We have never had a problem with it getting cold quickly and tasting superb.

 

[savingdogs]

My fridge is just a few steps from my stanchion and my milk has always tasted wonderful from my does.