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mamasunshine
Farmgirl in Training
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Stella
Humboldt County
Ca
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 Posted - Jan 02 2010 : 9:41:54 PM
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I've been thinking alot lately about getting some dairy goats. I was wondering a few things:
I know their milk is naturally homogenized and it's hard to make butter from it, but can you make sour cream? Are there any other dairy products or cheeses that just won't work with goats?
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2010 : 06:07:45 AM
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Hello Stella. I have Lamancha and a Nubian. I have mage ome great cheeses. I think you can use goat milk for just about any cheese recipe. I have made butter but it takes alot of milk and patience. I have about 10 gallons and skimmed all the cream I could get off the tops and I think I got about a pint of the prettiest white butter. I would love a seperator, but way over my budget now. I have made buttermilk but it's slimy. I have tried sour cream once but must not have done it right. I am making goat milk soap now. I had a lot of milk this past season that I froze so I'm using that. Oh, I have tried yogurt, too. But it just won't get thick enough. Also I have had kefir going that's great but let it ruin. I need to get another starter when they come back in milk in April.
So get a few goats and just experiment. I love my girls. I just dried up my Nubian this past week. So I have to wait til Spring for more. I have a friend with Jerseys so I get milk from her now. But goats are great and pretty easy. SOmetimes you have problems. Not many. But you need at least 2 because they do not like to be alone. And it'd be good to get 2 that have been raised together.
Good luck and have fun!
Kris
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sacredwolf
Farmgirl in Training
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Kristy
Narka
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2010 : 07:36:04 AM
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| I have two dairy goats but I have only been milking for about two years. I have made some cheeses but not many, I plan to make a lot of different cheeses this year and experiment a lot with other projects. On the other hand though my sister in-law has been making products out of goat milk for a long time. She makes everything including sour cream, cream cheese, butter, yogurt, and many many different kinds of cheeses, etc... My kids and I have helped her make butter before and it was not any harder then making butter from cow milk. She can take any recipe for cows milk and use it for goat milk, but she does have to experiment with it first because sometimes she needs to use a lower temp or change a measurement. Also different breeds of goats naturally have different amounts of butter fat in their milk. A Nubian has the highest natural butter fat in their milk making it the easiest to use. I have not had any problems using any breed of dairy goats milk to make cheese with. You can also add fat content to their milk by their diet. I feed Purina goat chow, oats, sunflower seed, and lin seed mill. This seems to work great. Hope this helps you. I love my milking girls they are the sweetest. Have fun and experiment. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jan 09 2010 : 8:15:16 PM
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I had goats for years and honestly never liked the cream as well as cow's cream. It is awfully hard to separate and doesn't taste nice for as long. It CAN be done but I just never was happy with the results. LOVED my goats (I had mostly Saanens and one wonderful Oberhasli) and loved their milk...but as for the cream..I traded goats milk for cow's cream.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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