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[Hens and Roos]

A tip for your Chevre...when you drain it keep some of the whey in case you drain the cheese for too long and it is too dry you can just mix some of the whey back in to make it more moist. Saved my cheese a few times. Good luck, cheese is an addiction.

thanks will remember to do so!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Was finally able to get some pictures of the triplets- 8 weeks old so we are starting to separate the doelings at night so we can milk Obie in the morning. The doelings are sure loud in the morning. Comet(the buckling) has been separated for several weeks now and doesn't carry on. Obie is more difficult to milk then Coco and hopefully will get better as she gets use to being milked. Just pasteurized her milk separately from Coco so we can taste it before combining it.

Here is Chaos:

Here is Cosmos

Here is Comet

 

[OneFineAcre]

They look great
I bet Obie is going to be a great milker for you if she has raised trip bucklimgs that look that good

 

[Hens and Roos]

They look great
I bet Obie is going to be a great milker for you if she has raised trip bucklimgs that look that good

Thanks, I hope so....right now milking isn't going so smoothly but hopefully she will get better about being on the milk stand- it doesn't help that her 2 doelings stand outside the milking area and scream until we are finished milking her

We did pasteurize about 1 qt. of her milk today- it isn't as creamy tasting as Coco's but everyone liked it too!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Really struggled this morning to milk Obie out and gave up . She is a FF and while her udder is good sized her teats are very small/short and hard to milk(my hands are small and I can't even get a good milking hold)- my question is will her teats get bigger and easier to milk with future kiddings?

 

[OneFineAcre]

Really struggled this morning to milk Obie out and gave up . She is a FF and while her udder is good sized her teats are very small/short and hard to milk(my hands are small and I can't even get a good milking hold)- my question is will her teats get bigger and easier to milk with future kiddings?

Maybe.
No guarantee, but they usually get larger on subsequent freshenings.
Might want to consider an udderly ez. We love ours.
I know some have said they didn't work well for them, but I speculate that they just weren't able to figure it out.
You do have to strip out the last by hand, but if you get to the point where you are milking a few, it is a big time and hand saver.

 

[animalmom]

Oh my word, yes, the Udderly EZ is great. I've been using it for going on 5 years now and find milking goes easier and my hands don't hurt as much. I milk Nigerian Dwarfs so I can feel your pain with the itty bitty teats. The girls don't seem to have any complaints on the milker outside of it occasionally catches a hair and pulls... but the so do my hands. Whole hearted unpaid recommendation. www.udderlyez.com for more info.

 

[Hens and Roos]

tried to respond earlier but my computer hiccupped and it ended up not showing up.....I will take a look at this!

 

[mikiz]

That's awesome! The udderlyez is like a human breastpump!

 

[Hens and Roos]

We got our paper work back from ADGA today- the 3 does are now in our name! We also got our tattoo ID so we can tattoo our kids.

So looking at the triplets- what would their color be?