The biggest complaint about milking now is my milk stand. Don't get me wrong, I love my milk stand, but I wish we would have built it with an area to the side that I could sit while milking. It's normally not a problem for me to milk while sitting on the stand, but it has become a bit more difficult now that my center of gravity has been changed by an ever-expanding belly.
Fortunately for me, Mr. H has been gracious enough to take over milking duty for the time being.
Our Current Milk Stand
We used the plans from Fiasco Farms, with a few slight modifications for our own preferences. Those plans can be found HERE.
The grain feeder had to be screwed in because Tease likes to pull it off and toss it around.
Tease has a great let down, and is very easy to milk. We usually finish milking well before she's done eating her grain.
Tease finishing her grain.
Mr. H showing off a bucket of fresh milk!
I'm hoping to build an extra seating area that is level to the milk stand before Spring. I'd love to have this so we can be a bit more comfortable, especially since we'll be milking more than one goat!
I just brought a step stool out to sit on. But, my milking stand is much lower than yours. A step stool might be too low.
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