Cream from Goat's Milk?

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Is there any way to seperate cream from goat's milk other than by using a cream seperator?

If not, anyone out there have a seperator for sale/trade? (cheap?)

-- Kevin R (kreffitt@dark-star.com), October 03, 2001

Answers

Hi Kevin......lots of different opinions on this. I have been using my goat's cream for a lot of years. I have a separator but find for our small needs it is a major pain to clean. I pasturize my milk and then leave it in wide mouthed jars in the refrigerator for about 4 or 5 days and then skim off the top. We make butter, icecream and cream cheese with it without an off flavor. My personal opinion is that the pasturization has to happen if you want sweet cream without a separator.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), October 04, 2001.

Hi Kevin there is one up at auction at http://cometothefarm.com/cometothefarmcgi/auction.cgi

My favorite place to shop! Also Ebay has them all the time.

I, like Diane, pasturise my milk. After it sits on the stove for several hours cooling, I simply skim all the (trying to find a better word than sludge :) off the top and put in the freezer. This is actaully from an old book in England. Once I have a jar full, I make butter from it. Leaving the fresh milk in the fridge also works, skimming off the risen cream, takes much more patience than I have!! Good luck with this, butter has just got to be the one problem with having goats. How about making some nice Feta and bartering with a cow neighbor for some butter! Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), October 04, 2001.


Thanks all! I'm trying to get a handle on this as this is my first year with goats. I LOVE 'em...:-)

Anyways, what kind of yield can I expect? I'm milking 2 Nubians which I understand as a breed are high in milk fat, and both my does are from "star" milking lines.

Wadda ya think? :-)

Kevin

-- Kevin R (kreffitt@dark-star.com), October 04, 2001.


My last milking doe produced about 1&1/2 cups of cream per 1/2 gallon milking. Just poured it off the top of the jar. Genetics is the major factor, followed by feeding. You won't get as much cream without fresh, green feed. If you're on the gulf coast, tallow trees are a great goat browse.

-- Tom (perchlorethylene@hotmail.com), October 07, 2001.

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