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| GaiasRose |
Posted - Mar 18 2009 : 11:37:01 AM
Since our goats are giving milk to their babes and we respect that relationship, I found a very local supplier (after MUCH searching) of raw cow milk. oh sweet ambrosia! The uses and the flavor and the PRICE!!!! She is charging only $2.25 per gallon!!! that is less than the decent brand at the grocery!! by nearly $4!!
Are you a raw milk family?? It's actually illegal in MN but there are loopholes for sellers to do it legally. The legality behind it chaps me something fierce!!
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| Alee |
Posted - May 14 2009 : 08:52:29 AM
AlyssaMarie- Store bought goats milk is NOTHING like fresh goats milk. If you are really interested I can see how much the goats are producing while I am there in a couple of weeks and could probably get you a good half gallon to try. There is no way that just Nora and I will be able to drink all the milk that the goats produce!
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| AlyssaMarie |
Posted - May 13 2009 : 9:47:52 PM
Hi Alee! Thanks for the idea. I brought the idea up at dinner tonight with the family and it was taken into consideration. Although I don't think my husband will want me to take on too much more until after the baby is born in the fall. We just got our first livestock (chickens and lambs) in March and this is our first full year on our property so we're still getting gardens and an orchard going. But perhaps I'll start doing serious research next winter and make a decision by spring. I'll have to track some goats milk for sale and see how my family likes it in the mean time.
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| Alee |
Posted - May 13 2009 : 7:59:07 PM
AlyssaMarie- Have you considered dairy goats? I have some friends in Potlatch that have Oberhasli goats. All the babies are bottle raises and super sweet. I am not sure if they have any gals to sell, but I could put you in touch with them.
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| AlyssaMarie |
Posted - May 13 2009 : 5:15:57 PM
Thanks Rene for the awesome website www.realmilk.com. That was great. Our family is just getting started on our little farm but I aspire to owning our own Jersey cow for our families dairy needs. One step at a time I guess. But I love reading all the postings on this subject!
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| mellaisbella |
Posted - May 13 2009 : 4:33:31 PM
we drink raw milk from our cows but it is illegal for us to sell it or even give it away...if we get caught, we would loose our license
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| Mamarude |
Posted - May 13 2009 : 1:14:17 PM
We are on our second season of raw milk, our herd share is a seasonal operation, so no luck in the winter. We get a gallon a week, and we use it for cheese, yogurt, kefir, everything! My only complaint is that it doesn't freeze well, I'd love to freeze some for the winter, it separates and looks funky, my kids won't touch it. |
| Mother Hen |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 4:51:43 PM
Sandra and Kris, thanks, I'll remember that about how to store it and to keep the buck away from them. We already have boer goats but we raise them as weedeaters and sell the wethers at the livestock auction for meat.
Kris-the guy is going to bring them over to us. They are a nubian/boer cross. I know when I've milked the boers to give to the babies (colostrum) only on occasion that they are hard to milk(small teats). I'll see what the teats are like on the nubian/boer cross. And yes!, God does provide! If I have any questions Kris, you are definitely going to be my "go to" girl to ask. (hope you don't mind)
I will probably try mixing it with the store bought cow milk at first to see if I can handle it. Thanks girls.
Cindy
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| laluna |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 4:42:23 PM
Mmmm...we drink raw milk when we're able to get it. Otherwise, I purchase gallons of pasteurized (not ultra), non-homogenized, cream-on-top milk from my CSA/farmer. I cannot drink "regular" milk anymore! 
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 3:32:53 PM
Cindy, did you get them? If someone was going to give me 3 Nubians I'd snatch 'em up in a second. Wow! How's that for God's hand providing for you? And His timing, too. I prefer goats milk to cows really. If you get it cold as soon as possible it's much better. I actually like it a few days old. And I think it depends on the goat, too. And if she's just freshioned or not. Lots of factors to how goat milk tastes. It is much easier to digest than cow milk. People who are lactose intolerant can drink goat milk. I think also it's just the thought that turns people against goat milk. Oh, and never keep a buck near a doe. That is so nasty and does affect how the milk tastes.
I hope you seriously think about getting them. Goats are great. Can you tell I love goats?
Kris
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| idsweetie72 |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 3:12:50 PM
Cindy- I have had many people tell me that they have tried goats milk and haven't liked it either- I think the trick is to keep them away from the bucks while they are lactating- that, in my opinion- really DOES transfer a taste/smell.
Also- if you put the milk in the freezer immediatley after you strainer/or pastuerize it- in sterile glass jars- this helps keep it much more fresh.
Or- if it freaks you out too much to try it straight- mix it with cows milk- that is always another option!
I was afraid my kids would balk at fresh goats milk- but they love it! (Whew on that one!)
I hope you have a great day!
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| Mother Hen |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 1:36:36 PM
Thanks Kris. I have asked DH if I can have one, but he says NO. His parents had a dairy for a long time and he remembers not ever being able to go anywhere more than 1/2 day out because you always had to be back home for milking. He says I have too much else to do(on my plate) and he is right, but that doesn't stop me from wanting one anyway.
I'll keep looking.
Funny thing happened this morning though...a neighbor from around the hill came over and said he wanted to give us 3 nubian/boer cross nannies as he has taken a job that will keep him away from home too much to care for his goats. Now as I said above somewhere, I was leaving this in God's hands if I get raw milk or not. I'm wondering now if God sent these goats to us so I will try milking them. I've tried goat milk once and didn't like it at all...but if it was really cold DH would drink it. Maybe this is what I'm supposed to do next, time will tell I guess. I'll let you all know if I end up milking them at some point.
Cindy
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 1:06:23 PM
Cindy, don't give up! There is someone out there that has milk. Or you could look into getting one of your own. Then you'd have so much milk, you'll be looking for people to buy it from you! Wouldn't that be great? I have a friend who has 2 Jersey's. She milks twice a day. And uses a milking machine, too. It's bigger than her! She was getting about 9 gallons a day for awhile. Now she gets about 4-5. Thay are both pregnant and due at the same time.
But keep looking and talking to people. You'll find it.
Kris
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 1:01:07 PM
Tasha, just e-mailed you. Thanks a bunch!
Kris
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| GaiasRose |
Posted - Mar 23 2009 : 08:17:05 AM
kristin, send me your email address and I'll send you all of the papers that I give to my customers who come buy shares of our goats for the milk.
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| Mother Hen |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 9:42:58 PM
I'm so disappointed......alas, the person I sent an email to about raw cow milk just emailed me back and she is drying up her cow as her calf is now 9 mos old. She has another iron in the fire with someone else with a cow coming due in April, but doesn't know that woman's commitments so she will contact me if there is any availability.
This burst my bubble. I could almost taste the fresh milk of my youth.
Well, I'll leave it in God's hands as I do everything else and if He thinks its a good idea for me to have fresh raw milk for the family then it will work out.
Cindy
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 5:17:41 PM
So good to read these posts! I do not use raw milk, but have not found a source. But when I was on my grandpa's dairy farm as a child, no one thought a thing about going to the milkhouse for milk when needed. Too many laws now.
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 3:02:16 PM
Are there others here that sell milk? I was thinking of drawing up papers for my customers to sign and for them to buy shares of the goats, too. I need ideas before I do it. I was going to last year but never got around to it. I do worry a little about someone getting sick and tracing it to me. I have a lady that is 86 that gets milk from me. She loves it.
If anyone knows of a web site I could go to for advice or has done this, please let me know. Thanks.
Kris
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| Mother Hen |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 1:02:32 PM
Rene and Farrah, thank you both so much for listing that website. I went there and found there is someone 45 minutes away in the town where we go to church. I've emailed them and hope to be able to get some real fresh, raw cow milk. I was raised for a time on it, my DH was raised on it as his parents had their own dairy for years, and I sure do miss it! I'm hopeful that this person will have enough as they only have one cow right now they are milking and sharing with her calf.
Tasha--Thank you so much for posting this thread...I hope to become a raw milk family.
God Bless,
Cindy
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| Brew Crew |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 08:27:18 AM
Kristin, the name of the bug DH had was 'campylobacter jejuni'. The drs weren't able to diagnose him because they were looking to other kinds of food poisoning unrelated to the milk (since it isn't a really rural area and so raw milk is pretty uncommon). After several days of unsuccessfully treating everything they could think of, they finally asked him if he had ever had raw milk. As soon as they knew that he drank quite a bit of it, they were able to treat it with the right stuff and he was out of the hospital in a couple days (although it took quite a while to recover completely).
We have our own goats, so I am able to control the milking and health of the goats completely. I milk on ice, and sterilize all my milking equipment every time. It was sort of a fluke, though, and from what the drs told me, it is unrelated to the cleanliness of the environment. More like Russian Roulette, and it just happens sometimes. DH ended up losing almost 30 lbs and the hospital bills added up to over $4,000 (with insurance!). I just couldn't take that chance again with my kiddos.
Niamh, I do the same as you! It leaves enough milk for the babies, and plenty for my family! Great system!
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| Niamh |
Posted - Mar 21 2009 : 9:15:05 PM
We're a raw milk family when our goats are producing. I 'milk to the side' of the babies - once they're two weeks old, they're on their mommas all day long but separated at night. In the morning I milk the mommas and then put the babies back in with them. It's a great situation for both of us. The babies grow up thinking they're goats and I don't have to be tied to either milking or raising babies.
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Mar 21 2009 : 6:39:31 PM
Molly, did the doctors say he got sick because of the raw milk? And do you have your own cow or goats? I was just interested to know how they could track it down to raw milk.
And Farrah, I went to Woodstock to the Bread Beckers where I get succanot and there was a guy there in a refrigerated truck selling raw milk and eggs. He had for pet consumption only on the containers. There were people lined up to get it, too. I think it was $7. I can't remember what the name of his place was, but he went to several places in the Atlanta area.
Kris
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| Brew Crew |
Posted - Mar 21 2009 : 4:46:03 PM
We drank our milk raw all last season, and then DH ended up with a really rare stomach bug and was in the hospital for 6 days until they could figure it out and treat it. Took him about 2 weeks more to get his strength back and so now I pastureize after being read the riot act by the hospital drs. All of a sudden I wondered how my children (aged 6 on down) would have held up to such a brutal bug. :( Not worth it to me. I still get all the lovely fresh milk, but without worrying about it.
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| keeperofthehome |
Posted - Mar 21 2009 : 12:30:40 PM
We use raw milk and cheese. I would love to get some cream. Here in Georgia the farmers are allowed to sell it if it is marketed for pets only. We pay $7/gallon. It is well worth it. If you are wanting some info on raw milk check out www.realmilk.com.
Blessings!
~Farrah
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| idsweetie72 |
Posted - Mar 21 2009 : 12:10:10 PM
we are a new raw milk family. I was worried the kids, ages 7-14 wouldn't like the goats milk- and I would have to continue to buy the store bought cow milk- (omg that stuff is getting spendy!)- but they absolutley LOVE it. And when I told them they would have to hold off on drinking so much because I had to supplement our baby goats- ( Two 6 day old Nubians, One 2 week old boer)- they all moaned and groaned. But soon we will have 2 goats I will be milking- so hopefully that will be enough to satisfy everyone's milk needs!
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| Hanalu |
Posted - Mar 21 2009 : 12:40:44 AM
We have Claravale Dairy and Organic Pastures that sell raw milk to Whole Foods in CA. I like the Claravale flavor and the fact that it comes in a glass bottle rather than plastic. The only problem is that half the time I go to the store to buy more milk and its gone!
Its expensive but I think the health benefits are worth it. I'm single so I can afford to spend extra on this for myself but I can't imagine buying it for a growing family! I really want my kids to be raised on raw milk too! Any one know any good single men in CA that drink raw milk? ha ha!
Hana
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