Management

Management / Herding

Milking year round

As goats breed seasonally, the winter normally represents a lactation-free period. To meet consumer demand for fresh goat cheese, farmers may keep part of their herd unmated and continue milking. This ongoing milking usually lasts for 2 to 2.5 years, occasionally up to 4 years.

Advantages:

  • milk year round
  • fewer kids (little profit, not marketable)
  • doe not burdened with pregnancy and birth

 

Disadvantage: 

  • against biological rhythm

 

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