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Ok and second round of milking (separated the kids this morning) even after tieing her she went spread eagle on me
 

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I believe from a previous picture that there's a roof over that milk stand. I'd string a belt from one side of the roof hanging down and then run it under her belly and back up and attach it so she CAN'T lay down.

ETA: you do realize that she's seeing this as a contest of wills right? If you let her get away with this, she wins.
 

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Most stanchions have vertical bars that "V" and you put the head and neck through and then close/latch the "V" shut around their neck. Take a look at the following picture...
http://homesteadrevival.blogspot.com/2012/02/milking-stanchion.html
In this set up, provided the heights of the closure are correct, she'd be hard put to do what she's doing on your milk stand.
 

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Dh plans on fixing some thing for me and thank you Latestarter dh thought about putting something under her I figured I would hurt her. I Like your idea and yes I know. That's why instead of quiting I started milking her laying down she looked at me like .was crazy lol then stood up an dealt with bein milked lol her udder is neither hot or hard she just a ff and has never really cared t b touched sh a strong willed goat Lilly her sister had to be tied for a month before she gave up this girl is another story all together I had her back legs off the ground and she still laid down. Say this for her sh detemined and I am glad she didn't give birth last year while I was learning he ropes I might have just gotten over having goats lol.
 

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Well I Say calm but mostly for her. She hasn't any signs of issues. She let's the kids nurse doesn't seem to have an issue. I check o again but. Didn't see any .Problem. When does the milk start to taste better? She on week three of lactating and her milk a strong almost gross flavor I never had that with her sister


The milk should not taste bad. Her Somatic Cell Count , if it is high would be one cause.
High SCC (mentioned above) can lead to mastitis.

I also pasturize so that could be it as well I might have over heat some but if the next batch is the same that let me know if that was it. (Have 10 month old, three year old and five year that drink it)

Yes, best to chill milk quickly after milking- then pasteurize and chill rapidly. Not getting milk chilled fast enough will grow bacteria and that causes off taste milk.

oh and by calm it's more I can milk with the machine but once I take them off and (sometimes this is the other way around) she says she done so I have to tie her atthat points to mil her out sometimes put it back on but she throws a fit. Sometimes she ok with me milking by hand and some times she gets mad about that machine and sometimes she just doesn't want to be milked

We use a feed bucket (you could use a 5 gallon one and put it under the goat if they are so inclined to lay down.
Sounds like she is fighting for her milk. Mommas that dam raise can be very hard to train to the stand because they are holding the milk back.
Some machines are hard on teats and hurt. Don't know what you have.

You could take her temp to check for concerns- high means one thing and low temp means another.

X2 what @frustratedearthmother asked.

BTW- make sure if you are tying the doe that she is in a normal stance. Too stretched out or back legs spread real wide and they will fight worse.
 

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Yes she get feed. I also thought about the fact that she go ahold of some weeds so thinking that could have hurt the milk. But not sure I have the right wait till my husband can help with that milking alone has proven to give me bruises (she nearly gave me a black eye end up with bruise cheek) can't imagine what she actually like when I end up taking her temp. Her foot is still healing so I am not sure if hoof scald would cause a fever on not. I have a dansha farm milk machicm it's meat for goats I make sure he udders are daml(prewaeh) before starting and then I make sure to turn it off once the milk is flowing. She doesn't act like sh in Pai when it running it's when she says. Am don normally she starts fighting.
 

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Thank you all of you for your help. Also for he ideals keep them both coming. It's helps me for sure. I love m husband but the animals are my thing lol he like them from a far and leaves the decuodec to me. Would it be better just to wait tillshe done weaning them or would it just be the same and I might as well keep it up?
 

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