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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 536324" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>I'll only deal with a couple of the questions. A decent dairy goat would provide all the milk your family needs. We made yogurt, cheese and butter but never ice cream from goat milk. Goats tend to be even more "herdy" then cows and need a companion. Most times you can find someone with a good buck goat that will let you bring your goat over to breed when she's in heat (back seat of a car works fine). One problem is that goats are very seasonal so you will have a 2 month dry spell every year. Calves do unbelievably well on goats milk. Raised a couple hundred a year on it back in the 70s. Didn;t have scours or any other health problems if the calves came from a herd with decent newborn calf health protocol.</p><p>If you already have some beef cows, why not train a really heifer beef cow as a milker? Better yet, a couple of them so you can milk a different one each day and leave the others to feed their calves</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 536324, member: 34"] I'll only deal with a couple of the questions. A decent dairy goat would provide all the milk your family needs. We made yogurt, cheese and butter but never ice cream from goat milk. Goats tend to be even more "herdy" then cows and need a companion. Most times you can find someone with a good buck goat that will let you bring your goat over to breed when she's in heat (back seat of a car works fine). One problem is that goats are very seasonal so you will have a 2 month dry spell every year. Calves do unbelievably well on goats milk. Raised a couple hundred a year on it back in the 70s. Didn;t have scours or any other health problems if the calves came from a herd with decent newborn calf health protocol. If you already have some beef cows, why not train a really heifer beef cow as a milker? Better yet, a couple of them so you can milk a different one each day and leave the others to feed their calves [/QUOTE]
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