How to make a goat milk latte
How to make a goat milk latte
Step 1: Get chickens. This is the universal first step to getting the goat milk latte. It’s just how it is.
Step 2 (optional): Get more chickens.
Step 3: Fall in love with chickens, call yourself “basically a farmer” and get a goat.
Step 4 (crucial): Milk your goat. Haphazardly at first because you’ve never milked a goat. Strain and freeze the milk for one hour (stops enzymes and keeps milk fresh)
Step 5: Make your latte and contemplate if you’ll ever get good enough at hand milking your goat to get more than 8oz of milk from her at a time.
It’s been 3 days of milking the goat we just welcomed onto the homestead.
By day three I felt more prepared as far as making sure I had all the things I needed BEFORE going out to her. Instead of literally fumbling around and running back and forth from the feed to her to the garage. While she screamed at me in goat.
I did get more than 8oz by the third day but I still need to figure out how to get her to eat slower (more time to milk) and how to get a better flow from her left side. I didn’t milk from that side at all the first two days because I was too slow and milking a goat is not like milking a cow. Not that I’ve milked a cow. But their teats are smaller which means their orifices are smaller (the hole where the milk actually flows out), so it’s just different. The flow is not as heavy. Angles are weird. If you don’t have a milk stanchion, you have to squat (me).
Definitely a learning curve. It’s been really fun, though. I’m super giddy about having our own source of raw milk. And I know she has the capacity to make up to a quart a day. I just have to get us in a good groove!
• For those who see “raw milk” and immediately think “oh no! She’s going to die!” Because I’m drinking milk which is not pasteurized, this is a great source to learn about not only the safety of raw milk, but it’s incredible benefits as well: https://www.realmilk.com/safety/
Peruse the site. And keep reading about if you’re curious.
Love it!
I can't wait to get goats at some point!
When my twins were born and I couldn't keep up breastfeeding, we made them goats milk formula from goats milk that we bought from a local farmer. They thrived!