This Craigs List ad is too funny

[babsbag]

So what do you think the maximum age is for someone to own a family milker? I am trying to keep only friendly goats from here on out so that they might transition onto a family farm but also these goats will never be hand milked. Do you think that that will make a difference to prospective buyers ? I don't want to send them to auction.

 

[Southern by choice]

Several of our Lamanchas came from homes where they were machine milked. Of course hands are used to strip etc and even out udders. Our girls had no issues with hand milking.

We are getting ready to reverse that and go to machine milking... I wonder if that will be a challenge.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I just did the same thing SBC....took my does about 5 minutes to adjust. They were more afraid of all those milk lines than the physical sensation of the machine milking. And, by the same token, a few of my ff's have ONLY been machine milked, but adjusted to hand milking (just because) with no issues at all... Food and relief trump fear of the unknown around here, lol!!

 

[Southern by choice]

I just did the same thing SBC....took my does about 5 minutes to adjust. They were more afraid of all those milk lines than the physical sensation of the machine milking. And, by the same token, a few of my ff's have ONLY been machine milked, but adjusted to hand milking (just because) with no issues at all... Food and relief trump fear of the unknown around here, lol!!

"Trouble" our mini mancha is ridiculous. She will be the hardest. Any change, and I mean ANY change and she is a basket case.
We put another feed bin in the mikroom once and she wouldn't go in. If goats could have OCD she'd be the poster goat for it.
Trouble could never leave our farm. I think she'd die. Seriously.

 

[Southern by choice]

I have a Nigerian Dwarf like that. If one thing is different in the milking room, she freezes in fear.

Sometimes I think it is to protect @Goat Whisperer She thinks Goat Whisperer is her baby. She will block her and holler at her.
She is a really cool goat.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

If goats could have OCD she'd be the poster goat for it.

LOL - I've got TWO like that! And, I milk those two at the same time - so if one is goofy one day it influences the other. My milking machine is set up for milking two at a time, but one side is for large teats - the other side for small so I have to make sure I've got one big teated (I know that's not a word - but it works, lol) goat and one smaller teated one to milk at the same time. I'd like to change those two to different milking partners - but I'm afraid it would be a HUGE disaster. So I guess I'm stuck with it this way for this season anyway... And now that it's rained and they have to walk through mud to come to the milk room - my life is he(double L) again! Grrrrrr!

 

[babsbag]

I want to put a foot wash in the path that the goats have to use to get to the dairy. The thing is I am afraid that they would never walk through it. Goats melt when they get their feet wet.

 

[Southern by choice]

Jeffers has a disinfectant mat that kills a bunch of stuff. I think it is called a biosecurity something. But, it us expensive... The lady who writes Tennessee Meat Goat articles uses/ reccomends it.

Many of these products are ineffective, much like the foot wash basins people use. You cannot disinfect organic matter. If there is poop in the hooves or wedged in your boots stepping on a mat or a wash will not do anything. It doesn't render the poop free of bacteria.
It may help remove some debris though.

 

[Green Acres Farm]

Many of these products are ineffective, much like the foot wash basins people use. You cannot disinfect organic matter. If there is poop in the hooves or wedged in your boots stepping on a mat or a wash will not do anything. It doesn't render the poop free of bacteria.
It may help remove some debris though.

Then I guess the goats will just have to wear shoes, and take them off before they go inside!

 

[babsbag]

I was only thinking that some of the straw and dirt would get knocked off, wasn't trying to disinfect them. My drain is set up under the milk stands so the more I can get washed off prior the easier it will be to clean. I can just wash it all off into the drain but then I have to deal with it when it is in the big holding tank. I think I will probably have to buy a macerating pump to make sure no organic matter clogs the discharge. I hope to use the spent wash water for irrigating pasture.