Milking questions

[Mamaboid]

Oh goody, we can go quietly crazy together while we wait. I have two does due that day. The Nubian and also my little mixed up alpine/ND X Angora/Fainter. She is a beautiful silver color, bred to our tri-color buck and I cannot wait to see what she gives me.

 

[craftymama86]

Oh wow, what a mix.

 

[marliah]

Probably the most common practice is to remove the kids overnight, milk the doe in the morning and let the kids back with her for the day. Most of the people that I know that practice this wait until the kids are at least 2 weeks old to start it. This is what I intend to do with our Nubian that is due to kid May 17. With the doe that had kids January 29, she is a Fainter, and I wasn't able to start milking her anyway and she had triplets, so we are going to move the little buck out this week, and start isolating her at night, and I am going to start milking her in the mornings.

This is what we are doing, so far so good I like only milking once a day.