Goat Whisperer's & SBC's kidding thread: kidding storm

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I have two LMs (half sisters) that have to lean on me when I sit down to milk. They both do it and they both do it when I sit on their left side. We are not talking a little "I have to touch you" type lean, we are talking all 120 lbs of goat leaning on me, if I move they darn near fall over. They also scream if I leave their side even for a second. They are annoying and I am thinking of selling them.
 

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Maybe a side rail on the milking stand would help with those leaners?
 

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That's a lot of goat resting on your shoulders! My Nigie doe will NOT allow me to milk with 2 hands. The person who had her before me had a bad wrist so did one side at a time. Evidently she prefers that. We'll be working on that when I breed her again!
 

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I LOL'd on the goat laying down. That is exactly what Scarlet did to me LAST year! Eventually I looped leashes around her waist and clipped her to the stall wall. and had to tie her ankles to the stall wall to keep her from kicking me every way possible. She was persistent but so was I. After 1.5 months of doubting the idea of milking was for me I won. I feel your pain!
 

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Fortunately the milking machine does not require me to sit next to the goat to milk. I was milking these two by hand for a few days and it was maddening and prompted me to get out the machine sooner rather than later. I have never had one lie down, the head gate on the stanchion won't allow them to do that.
 

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I milk from the back. It saves a lot of back aches and the goats never lean. It also makes it much easier to manage feet that like to "wander" toward the bucket.

I built my milk stand long and narrow so I can sit on the end, but you could just as well put a stool at the end of a short stand.
 

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We have a few that lean, last year two of the does loved to put all their weight on my shoulder, Ruby the 145# Nubian was on of them! They weren't bad though, I'd just lean back farther and they'd stop.

Lucy on the other hand, well as y'all saw she just lays down. She's saving it for her boys! See that little chair? I'll sit on that, bucket squeezed between my knees, one hand holding her body up, and the other milking the goat :lol:

Thankfully the other girls are okay, I can leave the bucket under them with no issues. Most of them even squat a little and spread their legs :D The only reason why Lucy is acting this way is due to dam raising. I got a bit spoiled with all the perfect first fresheners the last few years. She'll be fine once the kids are pulled.

I don't know that I'd like to milk from behind a goat. Goats are goats, I'm not sure I'd like the passing of gas in my face. :sick
 

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