Goat's Milk and Its Uses: With Information on Milking and Making Cheese, Butter and Cream
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Goat’s Milk and Its Uses is an illustrative guide to maximising the uses of your goat’s milk, and also contains information on cheese and butter.
This farming handbook provides valuable insight into goat keeping. Specifically curated for a contemporary audience, Goat’s Milk and Its Uses features various vintage articles and texts containing information on the many uses of goat’s milk. Giving guidance on how to milk a goat, this volume will support you in producing cheese, butter, and various products from your goat’s milk.
The chapters featured in this volume include:- - ‘Family Goat-Keeping’ by W O’Connel Holmes
- - ‘Goat Keeping’ - Written for the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs with the Assistance of the British Goat Society
- - ‘Improved Milk Goats - A Guide for Breeders, Dairymen and Exhibitors’ by Will L Tewalt
- - ‘Starting Right with Milk Goats’ by Helen Walsh
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Milk-O !
A BIG problem to the beginner is that of actually milking a goat, if no such thing has ever been attempted before. Here again you will find your worries disappearing as you get down to actual practice. It is an art
readily acquired, and even children make good goat-milkers.
And what a satisfying business it is, this particular business of being your own dairyman. Off you go in the early morning. . . . There is an eager Ba-aa!
in greeting as you approach nanny. Squish, squish . . . squish, squish . . . the warm milk frothing in the pail, gradually mounting—one, two, three, Ah! three and a-half pints this morning, my dear! I bet that’s one up on old Smith. Hope I meet him in the train!
Some people squat on their heels to milk. You may find it more to your convenience to have a low bench on which the goat will quickly learn to stand, while you sit at the side on a stool. A suitable bench would be from 12-18ins. from the ground, the width 2ft., and the length approximately 3 1/2-4ft.
A small bucket may be used for milking. Personally, I frequently use a 3-4 pint enamel mug, over the top of which I clip a thickness or two of butter-muslin, with a rubber band, as an additional aid to cleanliness.
The dairy business end of the goat is a delicate piece of machinery which must be treated as such. The udder must not be tugged or swung about or carelessly knocked. Treat it with firm gentleness.
The mechanics of milking are these: Grasp the further teat with the right hand, in the crutch between the thumb and forefinger. Squeeze, and with reasonable pressure follow up with the second and third fingers. If the teat is long enough it may be possible to use the little finger also. Relax the teat and begin again with the forefinger. Perform the same operation on the other teat with the left hand, alternating with the right.
Note that there is no pulling or stretching of the teat, but only pressure. Occasionally with your wrist you should bunt
upwards into the udder, in natural imitation of the bunting action of a kid when suckling. This induces a release of milk from the udder.
When you have extracted as much milk as possible in this way, you must strip
the bag. This is most important. With each hand alternately, draw thumb and forefinger quickly up and down each teat, until the last drops of milk have been extracted. You need these strippings
as they are the richest part of the milk. Gentle massage of the udder, particularly round the back, during this process, will be found to bring down more milk. Unless an udder is stripped right out at each milking the yield will gradually decline, so do not skip this part of the job.
Speed comes with practice, but always milk as quickly as possible. It ensures a steadier and increased flow, and avoids irritating the goat.
A goat should chew her cud contentedly during milking. If she does not, or is very fidgetty, endeavour to find out what is wrong. You may be pulling long hairs on or about the udder; or there may be a sore or chap on the teat.
For the first few days after kidding milk your goat particularly carefully and lightly; only take a little milk, but gradually increase the amount taken away, until you are milking full out.
If your goat is a first-kidder she may give you a little trouble until she has become accustomed to an experience which is as strange to her as it is to you. You must be patient, petting and coaxing her, and treating the udder with care.
Very often the teats of a first-kidder are so small that they cannot be grasped easily with the hand. These can be gradually brought into better shape by gende pulling and massage after applying lanoline or one of the proprietary udder salves. Persistent massage has worked wonders with many an unpromising udder.
Making Your Own Butter and Cheese.
NOT least of the joys of keeping goats is that you can make you own butter and cheese. It is surprising how many people think that elaborate equipment is necessary for butter-making. This is far from being the case. Any goat-keeper with a fairly good supply of milk can make delicious butter with the aid of a few simple articles to be found in any kitchen.
I have known butter to be made regularly by being shaken up in a jam jar. I have myself made a weekly quota in an ordinary pudding basin, using a cheap geared cream-whisk. An average of 6 ozs. of butter from just over a gallon of milk has been obtained, with hand skimming. The milk, being skimmed, has still been quite creamy, and served its ordinary purpose in tea, etc.
The pudding basin method is this: After milking, the milk is strained, and cooled as quickly as possible (by standing in a bucket of cold water, if