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Good job. Are you guys selling the baby boy Nubian? If you are selling him, it is a good to separate them because because when you sell him it will make it a lot easier on mama.
 

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I would continue to milk twice a day and get that production up. She should peak at around 8 weeks into lactation and the more you milk, the more she gives. It is especially important since she only has a single kid.

I don't chill my milk that I am pasteurizing; I put it directly into the pasteurizer and then chill. @Southern by choice claims it will taste better if you chill first but I haven't found a difference. Sticking in in the refrigerator is technically not chilling it fast enough. You need to stick it is the freezer (set a timer) or in an ice bath.

A tip for soap making... determine what size recipe you will be making and how much milk you need and freeze your milk in that size batche. My soap molds hold 3 lbs. of soap and it takes 12 fluid oz. of milk for each batch, so I freeze milk in 12 oz. servings.
 

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Good job. Are you guys selling the baby boy Nubian? If you are selling him, it is a good to separate them because because when you sell him it will make it a lot easier on mama.
We are selling him but he is 7 weeks old right now so we still have 5 weeks. and she seems ok when he isn't screaming. He is around half her size already and growing like a weed. :D
 

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I would continue to milk twice a day and get that production up. She should peak at around 8 weeks into lactation and the more you milk, the more she gives. It is especially important since she only has a single kid.

I don't chill my milk that I am pasteurizing; I put it directly into the pasteurizer and then chill. @Southern by choice claims it will taste better if you chill first but I haven't found a difference. Sticking in in the refrigerator is technically not chilling it fast enough. You need to stick it is the freezer (set a timer) or in an ice bath.

A tip for soap making... determine what size recipe you will be making and how much milk you need and freeze your milk in that size batche. My soap molds hold 3 lbs. of soap and it takes 12 fluid oz. of milk for each batch, so I freeze milk in 12 oz. servings.
Thanks! Lately I have been filtering then putting it right in the fridge and haven't pasteurized it yet. The first jar of it I froze in a plastic baggie for soap use.

I don't think the taste is bad, just too cows milk like... :/
 

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I happen to like cow's milk so that is never a problem for me.

You might get some cheap containers at the $1 store for your soap milk. You will be using the milk frozen and I find that the baggies freeze into the milk and I have to thaw the milk too much to get the baggie out of it. Does that make sense?
 

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I happen to like cow's milk so that is never a problem for me.

You might get some cheap containers at the $1 store for your soap milk. You will be using the milk frozen and I find that the baggies freeze into the milk and I have to thaw the milk too much to get the baggie out of it. Does that make sense?
I never thought of that, I will have to do that! I was told ice cube trays but didn't have any... I have always froze the goats milk I use for baby bunnies in baggies and never had any issues but I use freezer bags and froze them on baking sheets so they were flat and all the air was out of them.
 
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