The REAL Truth Behind Home Dairy Goats & Family Milk Cows
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- Today we are talking all things home dairy. What better way to learn and make your decision than hearing it straight from the folks living it every day. I hope this video encourages you and helps you on your journey to having your own dairy at home. Whether you choose goats or cows, you are taking the next step to self sustainability! Go you! You CAN DO THIS!
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Has your sister-in-law ever thought about creating a UA-cam channel? It would be cool to see an additional way to have a homestead. Plus, it may help you show off the family/community aspect of homestead life.
We try to tell her all the time
Thanks for sharing ladies👍🤓👍. Having pigs around sure helps with scraps and milk going bad. Nothing wasted👍. Everything put on this earth for a purpose ❣️
Loved today's video! I've never had the opportunity to have a milk cow or goat, but I've always wished I'd had a milk cow. Mom and dad had a Jersey long before I was born. As a teenager we had some black angus cows (which I made one into a big pet!). After I got married we never had property for farm animals. I wish I knew someone nearby with a dairy cow so I could at least try drinking raw milk. Everyone says it's so delicious!
We’ve had jerseys and now have French Alpine dairy goats. Loved our Jerseys but they take a lot of pasture and you obviously need a bull and lots of hay. We love our Alpines they are the sweetest animals. As far as the milk goes Jersey milk is awesome and IMO people are biased towards cows milk. Goats milk is amazing, 1st thing is goats milk is homogenized so you need a cream separator to make butter and 2nd the secret to good tasting goats milk is it has to be chilled immediately after milking. We also do not keep our buck in with the fresh doe’s it will eventually make the milk taste funny. One note on Alpine dairy goats is they can stay in milk continuously “sometimes “. For meat why we switched to goats is you can butcher a Boer in 5 to 6 months instead of a year or better for a steer Great video as always
good info there!
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays one thing I didn’t mention is when you feed grain to goats you have to trim hooves regularly. That is the one chore I despise most about raising goats. Have a blessed day,
I have no room for a cow or goat. But Iif I did I sure would have one or the other. I use to live to go milk the cow with my grandpaw. Blessed.
Great video! Enjoyed your porch visit with your sister-in-law. Having close family and community is a real blessing. 🥰
Watching you two rock on the porch .. so awesome. Would love to have community like that
❤Thanks for this great video Meagan and Abby! I will never forget the banding video! 😂 it amazes me at all the knowledge you all have for such a variety of things you have to know for every aspect of homesteading. I think Meagan, you should wear a Psychiatrist cap because you seem to know the mind’s of your animals. I think my very favorite video was the one where you took us around to each animal and it was obvious your love for them by the way you pet on them and talk to them. I learned to never pet a calf on the head making her a pet. I look forward to seeing you make soap. Tell Abby she is a natural for the camera. Very good video! Have a great weekend! 🙏🏻💜 🐄 🐐 😊
thank you! hope you have a nice weekend as well
hopefully sunrise find you guys well from the storms lastnight.
everything was good here, man its been terribly windy today though!
An excellent episode. Have only recently discovered the channel and so appreciate the wisdom sharing. I wouldn't be able to duplicate these way that I"m confident were similar to my own Grandmother's homestead before they moved to the city. I'm from farm people on both sides (& husband's side) but we two & our kids have zero farming skills. I barely witnessed almost any. I only know the stories of my Depression era paternal Grandparents & Dad's siblings survival as a super poor quarry worker family up from the farms. My maternal great-Grandfather was a large animal vet out from Norway just as the car & tractor were taking off in the world (such poor luck). So, this interview of goat and cow was incredibly helpful. I'm thinking goats because of my property (mostly woods w almost no pasture). Thanks, this is a great channel.
so glad we can help!
Excellent video honesty from two ladies who are family but also great friends.
Thank you ladies. I am short on space and thinking about a couple of milking goats. I grew up with milking cows and know nothing about goats. I have been reading and researching. This was very helpful. Thank you again ❤❤
I so enjoyed your video,we don’t have farm animals but y’all are very informative and interesting see 🐄 🐐 chickens 🐓 🐖 🐎 🐈⬛ 🐕
We love our cows! Our milk cow is our favorite farm animal! She's a pure jersey, very trained. She's 6 years old. Definitely the boss cow among the other cattle! Lol! She gives 4 gallons currently daily. She has a few months until we will need to dry her for calving.
Always a pleasure. That’s a beautiful property. I’m sure the family that was there before you would be proud.
Thank you to your Sister in law For sharing her opinion! Take care God Bless Jan
Thank you for this video! I love the simplicity of the way y'all work, no fancy equipment to have to wash!
That beautiful Goat is plum full of milk. My goodness. Mr. ROOSTER is saying Hello. Oh my, a Peacock. Wow. Thanks Sis. Megan, all that milk from just one milking. It's wonderful. Thanks guys really. Liked the video.
Great video. I am a goat person. Any dairy breed of goat is great. Your right about the most important thing being your sanitation practices if you want use your milk for consumption.
Enjoyed this video a lot. Great job with your Sister in Law and her goats, and your coverage about your Jersey Milk Cow was great too. Andy was a great help to you also and you both work so well together. Thanks for sharing and just being yourselves. Stay safe and have fun. Fred.
I loved this video. I have recently found you guys in the last month or so. Lovely fam. Cheers from Melbourne Australia. Just a suburban girl here living vicariously through y’all
Good morning! Thanks for the new video.❤
What a wonderful feast of delights. Hard work no doubt. Bless you all and thankyou for sharing
Must be so comforting to know, no matter how stupid our government you’ll be totally fine either way. So cool!
Great episode! ❤ your Channel. Always informative, and just like visiting with dear friends.
Thank you ladies for sharing your knowledgewith us, this video was very helpful!
We have Saanen goats. Right now I milk one twice day and have another once a day. Our goats are very gentle I have 5 in milk and 3 baby girls and a baby boy. There is just me and husband on our farm and the 6 grandkids who visit us and a new little one who will be in here in July glad I found this channel
We had both cows and goats on the farm and none of us liked the taste of goats milk. So make sure to get goats milk from the store or through your local network to try before buying any goats. We didn't make cheese back then but that's what I'd do if forced to keep goats now. Goats are super hard on fencing because they climb on it to reach tree branches. Cows you need more space and a stantion helps a lot (though I milked with just a halter rope). We had sheep too but mutton was always getting 'hid' in chili and so on because no one really liked it. So make sure you buy some at the store for the kids to taste test before getting them. I thought about getting a small herd of sheep here as my lawn mowers but the kids did not like the lamb we cooked from the store. So I feed gasoline to the lawn mower.
Absolutely correct! Here in Ireland we had goats too and sweet Mary, no one liked the milk but it became a cash product which was handy, but the thick cream on a jersey grass fed cow is powerful!
Hi ! Meagan,Andy I’ve been watching your Channel for awhile now , You have a Great channel I enjoy watching my Kin had farms growing up I use to go out to their farm and helped them out as much as I could! I will be going from the beginning of your Videos! Take care God Bless Jan
We sure do enjoy y'all's videos. I've never watched one I didn't like and I believe I've seen them all, plus just letting them run while I'm cooking or whatever.
It's the best show on TV and we love it!
Seems like you've been posting more lately.
Hate to say it, but I was unsubscribed AGAIN today... strange how you're still on my feed.. I believe you passed 40k a long time ago on subscribers.
Anyway, just had to leave a message... I'm saving the live for tomorrow. I seen you say that you changed to subscribers only on chat, hope that fixed the bots.
Thanks for sharing your life with us and know in your heart we really love the show.
What a great video! You gave some pearls of knowledge that’s so helpful! We are new to farm life and are about to set up our infrastructure so that we can have pigs, bunnies, chickens and of course the most important part of our farm will be a dairy cow. We are so excited and looking forward to every part of our journey. So happy we found this channel. Keep up the great work!❤
Love and Blessings
Hey there! I just wanted to reach out and let y'all know we got our first Nubian buckling and a doe. We are so excited to have them as an addition to our farm! And loved watching this video. We are still wanting to add to our herd, so please keep us in mind for the future.
I enjoyed the video on milk goat's and I have been watching you milk Candy. When we were kids mom and dad we had a jersey milk cow and daddy milk her or mom once or twice a day. I remember churning for butter. That was the good o days. I enjoy your videos on the farm and the garden, the pigs chicken
Yall bring back the days when I was on the farm with my family. It's a great life and peace and enjoy what's you do. I know that things will go wrong with animals but you are not in a rat race
God Bless.
Does your sister- in-law have a UA-cam channel? I’m enjoying this video. Living close to this area, I try to look for ways to support local farmers, in whatever way that I can.
she doesn't but we've been trying to get her to start
What is the metal contraption you put on the back of the cow? That's the thing about goats you don't have to have large amounts of pasture. I had only an acre and had goats pigs chickens ducks geese and turkeys. Yes you gotta buy feed but back in the 70's it wasn't so bad. I wanted a farm so bad that where there's a will there's a way. I always found milking soothing. Never had that spray just clean before and after.
It’s a kick bar, just makes it uncomfortable for her to kick sideways
Your videos are so helpful. This is the way my folks grew up but they didn’t raise us that way. It helps to see it and get a live demo of what my dad tells me about.
Great video, I’m glad you addressed the inevitable milk excess, I think it’s something new people dont really anticipate,I can remember milking three French alpines that were each averaging a gallon or more a day,there were many many late nights dealing with milk, cheese yogurt and soap to keep from wasting anything, the African barber pole worm was a huge issue in both my meat and dairy herds In those years,even after becoming famacha certified and using that method it was still an ever present problem, so I guess a huge pro for the cows is that that parasite doesn’t effect them? Those worms are from the devil, I’m tellin ya! Finished planting some more okra and tomatoes this evening just as a good soaking rain set in, I side dressed the tomatoes with the pellitized gypsum y’all recommended, we’ll see how it goes! Hope all is well there!
Good morning from Oregon!
The Dexter Cow is smaller, will ' forage ' like a goat , gives milk like a Guernsey etc but not as much and have a real nice temperament
Great tutorial y'all. Many thanks to Andy's sister for sharing her knowledge with us. I hope y'all made it through the storm last night ok.
yep it didn't get to bad up here, hope yall did too!
Mini Jersey or Guernsey cows are perfect for homesteading.
Sister you need a stanchion and a tie for her leg. Eventually she will learn not to kick and can't get away. I had milk goats back in the day and once we got used to the taste we liked their milk. That being said I always missed the cream. I had French Alpine and they were great. Goats are browsers that's why you can put them anywhere. Loved how you girls seem to get along sittin and rockin on the porch.
Thanks for another video , your my daily routine . lol don't change it.......
You two seen to be great friends. She needs to be on the channel with you more. God is so good. Love you and yours. 🥰🙏🏻
You're amazing with your cows, Megan. Very inspiring! Thanks for the video
Great video as usual. We had a milk cow when I was younger. Enjoyed this visit. ❤❤
That was a very good video. I’m an old city gal if I had my choice it’d be that cows milk but I buy my milk from the store but that milk sure does look good and pretty you know what you’re doing. You have a good day too. ❤
I learned a lot. Thank you. 🙏
Loved today's video ❤
Very educational as well as entertaining. Thank you
Very awesome! LOVE THIS 🎉
I got 3 goats shortly after getting a bottle baby calf who I raised and she just recently calved. The goats are way more trouble and based on this video I'd have to milk 8 goats to equal my one cow who eats only grass. I tie the feet and don't give feed while I milk. imo a cow is way more worth it.
Another great video. Loved seeing my daughter on there too. She did an awesome job❤
Great video , a lot of education that was talked about , thank you , stay safe .
Love you guys! Your videos are so informative.
Really enjoyed this whole video, thank you!!
We always love all videos
good morning! great vid thanks
I loved this video. Thank your family for sharing their time with us.
Thank you for sharing some wonderful information
Excellent video!! ❤
Great Job guys!
Thanks, very educational !!
My cousin and I got 3 gallons of milk each from Amelia. My cousins son made us churns. Now we messed up on first gallon of milk, but we got the hang of it and churned butter!! It was soooo good...we want to do it again!! Don't think I can do goat milk lol....except soap lol
Awesome!!
Interesting video ! Never seen a goat milked before. It was funny, she knew what the goat was about to do before the goat did, like kicking. She had that leg before it could get into the motion. Lol. Always have heard how healthy goats milk is but I just can’t drink the milk of a cow or goat. Lol. I would like some goats for taking care of cleaning the property up ( tractor is broke) and now that I know you can get goats that don’t stink I’m going to pursue that. Enjoyed, thanks again. 😊
Great video as usual 👌. Thanks Abby 😊
Thanks for the video! I appreciate your honesty!' God bless.
Cabbage leaves on the utters for mastitis.. wrap them on of you can
Enjoyed watching!
Excellent video!
Great video. Thanks for the information. I want to get livestock at some point but not close yet. So far, i lean towards goats because of my scenario, but I would love to have a cow.
Just the best people y’all are just solid. Interesting video and informative
Appreciate that
Loved this video! Very informative. So glad I found your channel. GOD bless
Awesome video. Thank u all very much. Can’t wait till I can get some land. Would loved to have that. Have a great day
Very good video
Excellent video well explained I appreciated the video thank you
My wife and I just discovered your videos and we love watching!!!
Awesome! Thank you!
Really enjoyed this video it was very informative and interesting.
Have you ever thought of Scottish Highlands? They're smaller, can survive and even thrive on less grass and give about a gallon a day.
I was looking at some of them one time but they're hard to find around here and they're expensive! candy was only $500
@@TrueGritAppalachianWays true enough. Most have a base price of around 1600!
Loved this video! I’m going to be getting goats in the next couple of weeks… love the idea of a milk cow but I’m going to start small at this time. You are right about Nubians are so expensive! Maybe I’ll find a great deal one day like your sister in law 🤗 for now baby Nigerian Dwarf kids.
I've seen simple milking stands that are basically a platform to get her in the air which makes it easier on yer back while you sit on a little stool
I've only milked cows, but the goats are cute.
Enjoyed the 2 of you chatting in the video! I'm a goat person...had them years ago...yep! Nubian is the way to go.
Ahhh yeah, goats are good forager/ grazers - I forgot about that - clrearing brushy areas and invaluable for clearing Kudzu ..
It's great ya'll have such a cooperative setup. I raise goats. The way I handle a kicking goats, use a stanchion and stretch out the back leg on my side and tie it back. I agree, at 66 and only 5' tall goats big enough. My ND goats are well behaved. The only problem I've had with goats is the hooves have to be trimmed all the time. You should try making goat mozzerlla, it's wonderful.
I wish I lived close enough to you to buy some of those products. ESP butter
To bad you cant get an industrial sized filter and funnel - big restaraunt sized coffee filter would speed up the pour
Nice Sister Meagan!😇!😇!😇!😇!😇!
Talking about it taking longer to clean the machine than it does to milk the cow... thats why I had such a hard time transitioning to a machine. Id rather spend the time milking the animals than I would only a few minutes milking and the rest of the time cleaning the machine. I know I'm in a different situation than yall, but after milking out Ellis and Carol who are recently fresh, I sure miss the time spent hand milking them like I used to. Ill say this though, when you're serving the public, having a closed system greatly reduces your cross contamination that is bound to happen when youre milking several in a day. I miss the days where Carol would walk into the barn, I would dump her some grain, and Id just sit and milk her. After I quit calf sharing though, shew, 4 gallons to milk out at a time was rough 🙂
Girl, if I had as many cows as you and serving the public yes totally agree with a machine 100%!
Loved my goats and milk made lots of soap caramel chocolate sauce
Did you know that instant hot cocoa mix is made with powdered goat milk? It's true!
Thank you all
I love a good goat roast 💙💯
We have milked sheep..dexters and jersey cows❤ now we get our milk from someone else who milks but i still make butter 😊
Which milk tasted the best to you? Was it hair sheep or wool sheep's milk that you tried?
@@ashleyhudson-er2og we had babydoll sheep. Loved them! Jersey was the best milk for our needs but they were all good
goat milk soap is great but so is the milk from a cow u can use both
Community sufficiciency! That's what I'm talking about!!!
You can freeze your milk and it would last longer
The machines are up front expensive and require some form of ' energy ' to run with parts that go bad - in a shtf scenario - once broke or no energy - theyre just expensive door stops
I still rather have cows ! ❤❤😊
Do you or your sister in law have a soap recipe to share? I have milk goats and would like to find a good easy recipe to start making soap.