Does won't dry up!!!

Alison

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Hi all:

I have two Oberhasli/Nubian does that kidded in May 2016. The one had twins. I didn't milk her and left the twins on her until she kicked them off in early spring 2017. The other's baby didn't survive, so I did milk her. I've tried to dry her up several times and she just won't. Now the doe with the twins has started producing again. So a year after kidding I'm milking 2 does and getting about 2.5 gallons per day. Maybe they are just amazing goats, but is this common for them to stay in milk for so long?
 

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I have some that are hard to dry off.

I start by going to once a day milking. They hate me for a few weeks and beg to be milked every night.

Once they aren't tight every morning I stop milking them out and just milk maybe half of what I was. Then go to every other day.

You can also pull grain and high protein hay, but usually I'm drying off goats 2-3 months into their pregnancy and don't want to take all grain and risk illness.

I finally got my Lamancha dried off 7 weeks before kidding last year. Sigh. Then I had to milk her a week before kidding because she was leaking colostrum everywhere and very uncomfortable. I have a Nigerian that's almost as bad. Or good- as the case may be. The Lamancha milked for 17 months as a FF.
 

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