The Best Goats for Milk on the Homestead (Top 5 Dairy Goat Breeds)
In this video, we’re looking at the best goats for milk on your homestead!
Did you know that more goat milk is consumed worldwide than any other type, including cow’s milk? Some people prefer the taste of goat’s milk over the alternatives, but that’s not the only reason that up to 65% to 72% of consumed dairy milk comes from goats!
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Goats are more resilient and easier to keep than cows, making them perfect for homesteaders. Goats can survive hot, arid conditions, as well as cold, frosty ones - all the while maintaining a steady supply of healthy milk. You can’t lose!
The creamy texture of goat’s milk comes from its high percentage of buttermilk. Yum! The creaminess varies from breed to breed. Various dairy goat breeds produce different amounts of milk per day, making some more productive than others.
If you’re thinking of getting dairy goats, these factors will no doubt influence your decision.
You’ll also want to bear in mind the characteristics of each dairy breed, including how easy they are to handle, how noisy they are, how much space you need, and how much your goats need to eat! (They get hungry!)
Without further ado, let’s look at the five best breeds of dairy goats and see who takes the top spot as the Queen of Milk.
Nigerian and pygmy goats are not unknown how they got here. They all basically can be traced back to them being directly imported into an American zoo originally intended to be feeder goats for other animals in the zoo. After They were brought over the zoo keepers fell in love with their quirky personalitys and then Decided to use them in a petting zoo. They were all brought over as one breed but the zookeepers noticed that there were two distinctly different breeds in that lot and named the second group Pygmys. Most all goats in America of those breeds (especially registered stock) can be directly linked back to that group of goats.
Some pictured goats have nothing to do with the breed she is talking about. For example Toggenburgs.
I'd like to know which are heat hardy and how to keep them from destroying the yard.
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Why no mention of Nubians? They can take heat better than alpine goats, are highly productive, and their milk is great for making cheese and ice cream.
They are pretty nice! Personally, I prefer the laid back Lamanchas, but Nubians do have loving personalities, too.
Novice question...Do you have to milk them every day or could you miss miss a day or two?
Every day if you don’t have their babies with them. If no babies then twice a day 12 hour apart and if you skip they will be in great pain imagine over filling a balloon. They will get serious infection called mastitis and you may loose the goat. However you can “kid share” which is when you pen the babies up separately at night before the day you want to milk. Milk the goat in the morning and then put her with the babies for the rest of the day. Then you can milk or not milk. Don’t pen up babies until they are at least 2-3 weeks old since they need to nurse a lot at first. You will get less milk with kid sharing but it’s more flexible. We have high production sables that are over 1.5 gallons per day and we kid share so we can still have a life. I’ve had several breeds and the lower production ones like Nigerian just didn’t give enough to make the work worth the trouble. High production milk star sable and saanens with kid sharing is our happy place. When we do milk we get half a gallon each on demand.
@@NorthlandSLC Great information. Much appreciated
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This is not an accurate explanation of dairy goats. Understandably, a Nigerian goat is small. However, 1 to 2 quarts of milk is not impressive as far as real dairy goats are concerned.
I'm looking into a dairy goat- one single goat at this time. Five thousand feet up, but Arizona. Whats your recommendation for a real dairy goat? I'm not interested in Nigerian or pygmies, honestly.
Nubians are more heat tolerant but Swiss are from high altitude mountains. We have sables which are colored saanens, Swiss breeds. They are hardy for us but we are way north where it gets -20 in winter and 100s in summer. But boy they produce. We get good stock show goats that put out 1.5 gallons per day consistently. About 1/2 gallon once a day if we kid share. Oh add that you cannot keep just one goat, they are herd animals. One goat will go insane and not thrive. You must have two minimum.
@@eowyn-faramir-reads Lamancha, Saanen, Nubian in this order
We'd rather handle cows. Many reasons. Stay safe.
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LOL goats are the least hardy animal I've ever met
Bravisimo loser ! Goats you saw was kept incorrectly ! My grandma's goats and all goats I've ever had seen (about 300 ) were hardy and healthy cause from the beginning of their lives they were kept in right environment !