Granny, I had given up on milking goats due to arthritis, but will be starting again later this year after a friend told me about this item:
UDDERLY EZ MILKER
“This milker udderly revolutionized my life. I use it everyday, twice a day, on two goats. Buck Wheeler sent me a large container to snap onto the pump, since the mare milker bottle only holds 16 ounces. I get a half-gallon per milking, twice a day, from each goat. But with this pump it doesn’t take a lot of squeezing; I squeeze the trigger maybe five times to create the necessary vacuum and then sit there and watch the milk flow. When the flow slows down to almost nothing, I squeeze it again. The bottle attached to the pump fills in a minute or two--much quicker than milking by hand--with just a few squeezes on the trigger.”
“It’s a precision tool; each part fits perfectly so nothing falls out or goes wrong, and it’s easy to clean. It’s totally carefree. I have never been so enthusiastic about any aid in my life!”
“The milker is easy on the udder, and the goats like it because milking is so comfortable and quick.” - Dorothy Shaw, dairy goat enthusiast
I particularly like the idea of 'non-electric' -
I certainly miss the goat milk ice cream, cheese, etc., and since I have no more of the 30+ quart bags that I had frozen for treats for my chickens, right after spring kidding, I will be getting another nubian.
Wonderful that they have invented the eazy milker.
Too late for me, I have days that I couldn’t handle even that, and there is no way I could keep it clean.
Do let us know how you like it and more importantly, how the goat likes it.
when I milked up to 6 at a time, it was understood that that was my time, and people did not come to bug me.
LOL, the military was testing a space ship at the time and most evenings, at dusk while I was milking, I could watch it take off from the place it was stored and then fly right over me, to get on the bombing/test range.
The ducks and geese always came to talk to me, as they knew they would get the first milk.
If you ever have a bunch of ducks and geese, go out some night and sing to them.
Keep in mind that my singing voice is one that no one has ever asked to hear the second time.
One night, I had a lot of veg peelings for the geese, so went out about 9 pm, nice and dark and felt like singing and did so.
They loved it, acted like real people, paid attention, were quiet and when I stopped, would make sounds like “Ohh sing one more, please”.
Bill got worried about me and came to see what I was doing.
I did get him to go and play his harmonica for them a couple times and they did enjoy it.
Hard to guess how large the crowd was, at least 20 ducks and 10 or 15 geese.