[Greylady]

:rofl I am that way too! :rofl

 

[doublebowgoats]

LOL. Here is a link to the one I use.
http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1288824
I took off that long hose and just use the funnel and blue and black screw-on part. There are probably even better filters out there though. Ones that don't have as many pieces?

 

[swgoats]

And then I get impatient and start trying to squeeze and then everything goes everywhere and I have to re filter the milk......You would think I would learn.

:lol I do that too. I've started just throwing away the foam. Might be cream, but so what? We've got plenty of cream in our milk.

 

[jdavenport]

Don't throw away those old filter's. Barn cats and dogs love them and get quite a bit of nutrition out of them. By the way, don't give these to a small dog or a puppy, they might get too big of a piece and choke. This is how my Amish neighbors keep the cats and dogs out of the parlor, they feed the filters after milking, away from the parlor and milkhouse.

 

[Annie]

I use the KenAg disk filters too, put 'em in a wire strainer. I've found that dampening them FIRST makes the milk go thru a whole lot easier. I've use cheap paper coffee filters too, but never paper towels?

 

[In it for the Bucks!]

I swear by the metal reusable coffee filters!!(set in a canning funnel to get into my wide mouth jars) Sometimes the foam builds up I just tap it on the funnel a few sitmes and it seems to settle it a little. Most of the time I get impatient and dump the foam for the pups. Good treat for them and then I can get back to milking and not fighting foam.

Michelle, does that have a filter in it?? or do you have to add your own?? That looks like it could hold more than mine does. Might be worth the trade.

 

[fmg]

Feeding filters to dogs and cats doesn't really sound like a good idea, especially when you consider they don't break down in liquid...

 

[doublebowgoats]

That filter/funnel does have a fine mesh stainless steel filter in the blue screw on part, Cally

 

[Horsehair Braider]

No one has mentioned this, so I thought I would just bring it up even though it's probably not the case.

I borrowed a neighbor's goat once because my own doe had died, and I had no milk. She was an Alpine and a very nice goat. Well, her milk would take forever to go through the strainer. I could not imagine why. Then I tried to make cheese out of it, mozzarella as I recall, and it would not form up into cheese. That's strange, I thought... then I tested her for mastitis. She had a very low level of infection in her udder. So the whole time her milk would not go through, it's because it was getting very slightly clumpy from a very mild case of mastitis. I went to the vet and got her some Today, infused her udder for the recommended time, and Hey, Presto! Her milk suddenly went through the strainer like a breeze and the cheese curd made up into cheese.

Due to this experience, if a goat's milk will not go through the strainer like I think it should, I immediately suspect she has a very mild case of mastitis. Instead of changing my straining system, I infuse the udder with Today and next thing you know all is well. YMMV.