Yes, you can......just check the pasteurized milk temperature with a couple of thermometers. Never trust just one!

 

Do I have to pasturize it right away or could I put it in the fridge or freezer untill I'm ready?
Thank you for your reply!

 

You can pasteurize it at any time. And you shouldn't have to buy $10 a gallon milk for your kid. If you don't have goat milk, whole grocery store cow milk works just fine for baby goats.

 

Thank you for the replys! I have been milking my boer and pasturizing her milk for my new little guy! He can't tell the difference but my boer sure hates being milked! She has never been milked befor so this is going to be a learning experience for both of us!

 

Thank you for all your help and advice, just wanted to add an update! My wonderful boyfriend made me a milking stand and my boer doe is doing wonderful now! She produces a little more than enough to feed the kid so now my fridge is over flowing with mason jars full of milk marked "clean" and "dirty" ( the clean milk is pasteurized and ready to be fed) better to have too much than too little! Even though I now have to get up at 5:30 to milk the doe and feed the kid ( plus feeding the rest of my 30 or so farm animals) it is totally worth it for the new experience I am getting and I'm saving soo much money not having to buy goats milk! So thank you all so much! Here are my Nubian kids, they say Thanx too!

Newbie to Nubian dairy goats. Also have 1 alpine/guernsey wether, 1 boer doe, 2 Pygmy does, and 1 Pygmy/Nigerian wether.

 

That's great! Glad it is working out for you.

 

You can get your boer goat tested for CAE pretty easily, if you can learn to draw blood. And it is fairly cheap with biotracking

 

Yes I am looking into getting them all tested. I just dont know which lab to send it to at biotracking, I think the closest one is Colorado? I'm waiting for the holiday to pass so I can just call them.


Newbie to Nubian dairy goats. Also have 1 alpine/guernsey wether, 1 boer doe, 2 Pygmy does, and 1 Pygmy/Nigerian wether.