Start your day by learning the important and correctly taught skill of hand milking before going on to make some cheese from your morning milking:

Hands- on start to your Course Day by learning how to correctly hand-milk (make sure you have nice warm hands)! Learn all about what’s involved with keeping a dairy animal (it is probably rather more complex than you may be thinking!), be they Caprine (Goats), Bovine (Cows) and even Ovine (Sheep) and their needs to maintain good health, milk production, reproduction, needs for companionship and the difficult realities of off-spring destiny resultant when producing milk for human consumption! We will explore which species is likely to be best suited to your needs (you may well find this quite illuminating!) and what to look for when purchasing a dairy animal? The day covers dairy hygiene, home-pasteurisation issues and registered keeper legislation. We will make some cheese from your morning milking session and discuss making yoghurt, ice cream, butter etc. Offered only as ‘Bespoke/Family’ private course day to ensure genuine learning experience OR as part of your residential stay in our luxury holiday cottage where you can take as may or as few days of assorted self sufficiency training/consultancy as you would like. This Course is constructed and delivered exclusively for you or your small group so you can ‘mix & match’ areas of self sufficient living, focus on the parts you need or vary into something different, just ask? – please see web site for full details and send e-mail enquiries to sue@gardenfarming.org

(Purchase price includes delicious self sufficient & home produced and light lunch with home produced goat dairy content of course plus tea and coffee throughout the day when taken as a one-day-course)

This course is a mixture of literally ‘hands on’ practical tuition with my goats (including Billy) and some classroom delivered theory content and is therefore suitable for adults and one to one adult-accompanied older children with mature outlook. Tutor with in excess 27 years self sufficiency experience of both upland and lowland situations, former agricultural college tutor/assessor & full scale farmer & courses are all run from the informal, comfortable environment of Tutor’s own self sufficient smallholding home – please see www.gardenfarming.org web site for full details.

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A basic goat care day giving both theory and hands on experience. Run within one of the countries longest established, leading meat goat herds.

Topics covered include legislation and record keeping, basic handling, drenching dosing and injecting, ear tagging, feeding, the sick goat, field checks and fencing, foot trimming, milking in the meat herd, the medicine cabinet, choosing meat goats marketing etc, routine treatments. (We work as the day leads itself, the most important topics are always covered but we talk about anything you wish to ask and let you guide us).

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Written by: S E Peacock
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Start your day by learning the important and correctly taught skill of hand milking before going on to make some cheese from your morning milking:

Hands- on start to your Course Day by learning how to correctly hand-milk (make sure you have nice warm hands)! Learn all about what’s involved with keeping a dairy animal (it is probably rather more complex than you may be thinking!), be they Caprine (Goats), Bovine (Cows) and even Ovine (Sheep) and their needs to maintain good health, milk production, reproduction, needs for companionship and the difficult realities of off-spring destiny resultant when producing milk for human consumption! We will explore which species is likely to be best suited to your needs (you may well find this quite illuminating!) and what to look for when purchasing a dairy animal? The day covers dairy hygiene, home-pasteurisation issues and registered keeper legislation. We will make some cheese from your morning milking session and discuss making yoghurt, ice cream, butter etc. Offered only as ‘Bespoke/Family’ private course day  to ensure genuine learning experience OR as part of your residential stay in our luxury holiday cottage where you can take as may or as few days of assorted self sufficiency training/consultancy as you would like. This Course is constructed and delivered exclusively for you or your small group so you can ‘mix & match’ areas of self sufficient living, focus on the parts you need or vary into something different, just ask?  – please see web site for full details and send e-mail enquiries to sue@gardenfarming.org

(Purchase price includes delicious self sufficient & home produced and light lunch with home produced goat dairy content of course plus tea and coffee throughout the day when taken as a one-day-course)

This course is a mixture of literally ‘hands on’ practical tuition with my goats (including Billy) and some classroom delivered theory content and is therefore suitable for adults and one to one adult-accompanied older children with mature outlook. Tutor with in excess 27 years self sufficiency experience of both upland and lowland situations, former agricultural college tutor/assessor & full scale farmer & courses are all run from the informal, comfortable environment of Tutor’s own self sufficient smallholding home - please see www.gardenfarming.org web site for full details.

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Written by: Gardenfarming
View the original article for contact information and more images: Goat Keeping, Home Dairying and Cheese Making-Yorkshire Training Course
Original article posted on the Smallholding Courses website.