[Homestead] Dairy goat lactation period
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Mon Nov 17 22:59:05 EST 2008
Generally you plan your vacations to the time just after breeding, when
you are drying off the girls.
Robert Walton wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:31 AM, bob ford <bobford79 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Okay, you say that a goat will make milk longer after the kid is gone, but the goat should be milked once a day. What if you had to leave , for say, a week? Would the fact that she wasn't milked make her sick in any way? what harm would be caused? I'm not a big milk drinker, though I drink milk. But, I do love cheese. I don't want to never be able to go camping for a few days or traveling for a week or two,............bobford
>
> I grew up on a dairy farm, Bob. The answer is you don't go. Or you
> find someone to do the milking for you. I'm drying up the goats in
> December and I have from then until February to do my world tour :>)
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