Good tips on a clean, nice looking goat milking area

You can make a DIY milk parlor on your small farm or homestead for a minimal cash investment and a little time. Here's a tour of our parlor.

There are plenty of reasons not to have a mobile milking parlor, especially if you just lived through winter in the northeast. Open air milking is for the birds when it’s -20 out. But what if…

What do you NEED to start a herdshare program? We talk about the milking parlor and bottling room requirements to ensure that you produce clean, profitable milk every day.

Virtual Tour of Raw Milk Dairy in Missouri, Show Quality Jersey Cows and Nubian Goats on a Raw Milk Dairy in southwest Missouri providing farm fresh milk to customers all over the Ozarks.

Enhance your dairy farm with GEA's efficient conventional milking systems. Our solutions ensure high-quality yields and long-term reliability.

Here are a few notes from the family, in their own words: a few things that we like about our setup are: -chilling our milk in a water bath utilizing rubbermaid bins inside a chest freezer and plug…

I did a lot of research online to find examples of homemade milking stanchions. Herb and I looked over them together to come up with our own plan. At the end of this post I'll list some of the links that were helpful to us, but here is the one that was invaluable: http://wagsranch.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wags-milking-stanchion-web.jpg Thank you, Wags Ranch! Herb was so fast building this that I didn't get out to the barn in time to get photos of the beginning. I'll do a post later with…

How to Build a Milk Barn.This post is a response to a reader request. Thank you for the question & please