JirehFarmsTN
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Hi again!
If anyone has followed our journey with AnnaBelle our jersey, I’m happy to share we now have amazing milk and TWO new additions!
Everything is going great, and we are going to start making fresh dairy products soon, but we have a slight complication...our milk has not been staying fresh for very long, and I’m inclined to think it could be the temp we store it at.
While our farmhouse is being redone we are in a camper-and let’s be honest, with a big family we have a VERY full 1/2 sized refrigerator that doesn’t stay as cold as a “real” refrigerator.
Several folks have told me the reason the milk isn’t staying fresh is likely because it isn’t staying cold enough, I’m curious....
1- Is this likely the cause?
2- What are your preferred temperatures for storage?
Part of the reason I’m lead to think it’s the storage method is a friend of ours who we’ve given some milk to keeps hers in a normal refrigerator and it stayed fresh for about 2 weeks, whereas we get a week at most.
We are keeping things as sanitary as possible-cleaning the cows’ udders thoroughly each milking (and keeping the cows as clean as possible), discarding the first several streams of milk, sanitizing all buckets and jars after each use, and using proper milk filtering methods
If anyone has followed our journey with AnnaBelle our jersey, I’m happy to share we now have amazing milk and TWO new additions!
Everything is going great, and we are going to start making fresh dairy products soon, but we have a slight complication...our milk has not been staying fresh for very long, and I’m inclined to think it could be the temp we store it at.
While our farmhouse is being redone we are in a camper-and let’s be honest, with a big family we have a VERY full 1/2 sized refrigerator that doesn’t stay as cold as a “real” refrigerator.
Several folks have told me the reason the milk isn’t staying fresh is likely because it isn’t staying cold enough, I’m curious....
1- Is this likely the cause?
2- What are your preferred temperatures for storage?
Part of the reason I’m lead to think it’s the storage method is a friend of ours who we’ve given some milk to keeps hers in a normal refrigerator and it stayed fresh for about 2 weeks, whereas we get a week at most.
We are keeping things as sanitary as possible-cleaning the cows’ udders thoroughly each milking (and keeping the cows as clean as possible), discarding the first several streams of milk, sanitizing all buckets and jars after each use, and using proper milk filtering methods