treeclimber233
Loving the herd life
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I have 3 does that are due to kid soon.One is a LaMancha that I milked last year by hand. This year I will have her to milk and her daughter (mini LaMancha) and a nigi/pygmy cross. The LaMancha does nipples are large enough to milk easily but the other two have very small nipples. I think a milker would be very helpful. Even with washing her udder and being very careful last year I still ended up with hair and "stuff" from her kicking in the milk. I am thinking with a milker I will not have that problem. I don't have much money so an electric milker is out of the question. A friend of mine bought a hand milker for $40 that worked for a few weeks and then broke (Might just be the O-ring?). What type of milker do you use and how much did it cost?