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Recommended Equipment for Milking Goats
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items Are you a new or growing dairy goat farmer who's looking for some recommendations on what equipment to use? You'll find sections for Milk Machines (for all budgets!), Freezing milk, which Jars to use, as well as Cleaning/Sanitizing, and a special bonus section for our Homemade Teat Wipes. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out!
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Milk Machine & Accessories
Freezing Milk & Accessories
Jars & Accessories
Cleaning and Sanitizing Dairy Goat Milking Equipment
Teat Wipes
Extras
Milk Machine & Accessories
Our small dairy goat farm started with a small affordable hand pump milker, scaled up to a 2 quart milking system, and now use our 2.5 gallon electric milker.
We've got all of the EZ Milking Systems, and hands down these are the best milking systems out there for the small family dairy farm. Every day during our 6 month milking season, we use this Ultimate EZ with the 2.5 gallon bucket to milk 5 dairy goats (next year will be milking 8 so we've already purchased the 5 gallon bucket as well!) and our 5am milking sessions go flawlessly
Ultimate EZ Bucket Milker for Goats, Cows and Livestock (2.5 gal)
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We've got all 3 EZ Animal Products milking systems, and we use this Utlimate EZ Bottle Milker for times when a goat is having some issues and may need to be milked separately from the herd (discarding milk), or even if she's the only one being milked... Super convenient!
EZ Bottle Milker for Goats - 2 Quart
The Udderly EZ Goat Milker was actually our very first milker we purchased when we had to milk 1 Nigerian Dwarf goat. This little hand pump does the trick, and is very convenient when you just have 1 small goat to milk, and/or if you have to get somewhere that there is no electricity. We definitely outgrew the handpump now that we are milking 5 goats (8 next season), but we have to pull this one out on occasion as necessary! Great place to start if you've just got 1-2 Nigerian Dwarf Goats or first fresheners that are just starting to milk!
Udderly EZ™ Milker for Goats & Sheep
Freezing Milk & Accessories
We started freezing milk in 2024 when our supply was slightly over our demand and we couldn't keep up on our own with 2 people consuming how much extra milk we had, so we decided to invest in this USVX Chamber sealer because it can freeze up to 1 qua...
During milking season, we offer a herdshare as well as direct milk sales (we can sell raw milk legally in Nebraska as long as it's a farm pickup), so we have members/customers reserve half gallons or gallons each day from that day's milk received. Anything over and above the half gallons reserved, will be used by ourselves, or frozen for soap making and/or to sell as frozen quarts for pets. We chose this USVX Chamber Sealer because it is able to freeze liquids up to a quart, so it's perfect for what we need!
Avid Armor USVX Ultra Chamber Vacuum Sealer
This is the size we use for freezing milk in quarts. We love that they come in 250 so we don't have to reorder as often!
Avid Armor Heavy Duty Vacuum Sealer Bags 250
Jars & Accessories
We package all of our raw goat milk in half gallon mason jars. Ball jars are our absolute favorite! We try to pick up jars from a local store but they have been more and more unavailable lately when we need them so Amazon is always our #1 backup when we need some in a rush.
Half Gallon Ball Mason Jars - 2 pk
If you're not wanting to buy multiples, here's the amazon link for just 1 single jar!
Half Gallon Ball Mason Jar - Single
These Leak Proof jars are where it's at when you're in the Raw Goat Milk business! Make sure you match the mout size (wide or regular) with what jars you have!
Ball Leak-Proof Wide Mouth Lids (6 Count)
Oh my goodness, THE CUTEST stainless steel milk pail. It fits one gallon (but exactly one gallon - so you might have to take a sip in order to close the lid). This is great if you pick up a half gallon weekly and don't want to have to deal with glass mason jars.
Stainless Steel 1-Gallon Milk Jug Can Pail
Cleaning and Sanitizing Dairy Goat Milking Equipment
We use this Power Clean Dairy Wash DAILY during milk season; every time we milk we immediately freeze/cool the milk and proceed to wash/sanitize the milking equipment with this Power Clean. Everything is spotless and it's so easy to use!
Power Clean Dairy Wash
Teat Wipes
As a small family farm, cost effectiveness is a priority for us, so although we were completely satisfied with our original teat wipes, it just got so expensive for us with milking 5 goats twice a day so we did some research and decided to purchase a...
Microfiber Dairy Towels-pk/50
If you're not wanting the full 50 pack, they do also have the Microfiber Dairy wipes in a 10 pack!
Blue Microfiber Dairy Towels-pk/10
As a dairy goat farmer that would rather wash our girls teats with essential oils than any bleach solutions, this is the EXACT homemade teat wash that we use with our microfiber cloths and can I just say it's so easy to make and smells DIVINE 👌🏻
Easy Homemade Teat Wash
Extras
Dynamint is a true oil and water emulsion which quickly delivers healing and anti-bacterial properties through the skin and into the soft tissue of goat teats and/or cow udders. Peppermint oil stimulates the circulatory and immune systems and adds a ... Dynamint is now approved for organic dairies.
Dynamint Udder Cream - Bottle, 500ml