milk amounts

8 pounds is 1 gallon

 

Anybody have a UDDER photo of a doe that milks 12M , before milking ?
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Sorry don't get this...Vicki

 

Do you mean 12 lbs?

 

Are you asking what a 12*M is?

When a doe has a number after her name (in this case a 12*M) is means that the doe is the 12th generation to have earned her milk star. The number of stars indicate the number of consecutive generations of females in the immediate background that have qualified. For example: 1*M indicates that the doe has qualified by meeting Advanced Registry or ST requirements and that her dam has no production record; 2*M indicates a qualified tested doe with a 1*M dam; 3*M indicates a qualified doe with a 2*M dam and a 1*M grandam, etc.

Make sense?

Sara

 

Maybe she's thinking 12M and meaning 12lb?? and maybe what she really wants to see is Agathas udder after 12 hours.. ? :biggrin

 

Linda,
Milk is weighed on a hanging dairy scale in a pail that was weighed before, the scale has two hands so you can see "0" and the tare weight of the pail when empty. Milk weighs 8.6 pounds per gallon, this is a quicker, more accurate way to record milk production than having to measure by eye.
What a "good" milk doe produces is a relevant term, everyone has their own management factors that play into what their best does produce.
I don't know if many take udder pictures at 12 hours and it would be irrevelant anyway and udders are different. Some may be big but "meaty" and produce less milk than a smaller more pliable udder.
Tim

 

Linda,
How long had she been fresh at the time of the photo? I believe she gives about a gallon a day. How many freshenings has she had?
Tim

 

I have a couple of udder pictures. Finesse milked over 20 pounds a day on a regular basis. She is the black doe.
Adah milked around 14-16 pounds a day.


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Zuna was a heavy milker, right at 2 gallons a day or about 16 pounds.


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Holy Cow ! Nice pictures . But I keep feeling bad for the girls ...it must be awful hard to walk .

 

They look like plastic surgery gone horribly wrong....but in a good way....I think. Like too big of implants

Those are some HUGE udders!

 

Hmm, I know I have a rear shot of Agatha somewhere on a disk -- I've been looking for it. Until I can find it -- here's a side shot.



This second shot is the YEARLING doe in my avatar! Even though she didn't freshen until the end of June, she has still made her milking star. I think she peaked at 10.5 lbs. Not bad for a baby! Though her teat placement could be further in, I'm not going to throw her away for that.



I'll keep looking for Aggie, and I have a great shot of her daughter Italian too somewhere.....

Tracy

 

All I can say is WOW!
K

 

Here is Sugar hours before kidding this spring. She was a 9-11 pound a day milker as a second freshener. Not a great pic angle but she really does fill a pail as do her sisters. Not show goats, for sure, but lots of milk.

I have 2 doelings from her by Kelton. They look just like mom.