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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2, 1924 
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THE QUAKER OATS COMPANY 
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A Chapter on Milk Goats 
We have been very much interested in 
milk goats. We have seven goats at the 
present time. We have a doe that is 
nearly all Toggenberg and is exactly like 
the one picture on page 1505 of The 
R. N.-Y. We bought this doe in June, 
with the understanding that she had 
never freshened, but would in August. 
At the time we bought her one side of her 
udder and one teat was much larger than 
the other side. Up to the present time 
she has not freshened, but her udder and 
teats have grown the same size and are 
very large. During the month of Septem¬ 
ber her udder was rigid and we had to 
milk out one side three or four times to 
relieve her. A few days ago she mated 
again. Can you tell us if there is any 
hopes of her breeding? Why have her 
udder and teats changed in size and 
shape when she has had no kid? W. S. 
New York. 
As this .doe has never freshened. I sup¬ 
pose her to be young. Does are frequently 
sold upon the representation that they 
have been with the buck, and should 
freshen five months later. It is one 
proposition to put a buck and a doe in a 
pen together and another to have them 
breed, but the unsuspecting buyer does not 
know the difference, until too late. Toj 
have had this doe freshen in August shej 
would have had to breed in March, which 
is contrary to nature. The natural time 
for breeding is in October. November and 
December, some running over into Janu¬ 
ary or the first of February, but that is 
very late. There are frequent articles 
about goats breeding in Spring and' in 
Fall, twice a year. It is the case with j 
goats, and I believe it is so with other 
animals, that at a certain period, about 
two or three weeks after giving birth, it 
is possible to breed her. This produces a 
Fall freshening, but in so breeding you 
sacrifice all the Summer flow of milk. 
The doe hasn’t sufficient strength both to 
grow kids and to give milk. 
That this particular doe’s udder de¬ 
veloped unevenly, first one side and then 
the other, is rather an indication that she 
was young and had not bred. Such filling 
of the udder is not unusual with young 
does, particularly if of a heavy milking 
line of blood, is common. If the udder 
does not fill too much or become too tense, 
it is better to leave it alone until the doe 
is bred and has her first kids. But if it 
becomes the least bit tense or fills to the 
size of a well-developed udder and is 
burdensome it is quite important that she 
be regularly milked, and fed a- heavy 
milking diet, to sustain her bodily 
strength, but drying her off at the earliest 
opportunity. Not to milk her, or not t< 
milk her clean, has a tendancy to thicken 
the tissues of the udder, much to her dis¬ 
advantage as a milker. In regard to the 
possibility of her ever breeding and having 
young. I would think there was no ques¬ 
tion. and her udder development would 
promise her being extra good. While I 
have not kept an accurate account I am 
sure I have raised and bred over 300 
milking does, and out of that lot I have 
had one doe that I could not get to breed, 
I have had others that have been injured 
and ceased to breed, but ouly oue that 
completely failed. 
It is quite common for bucks to he 
sterile, possibly one-third of them are 
deficient. I think the reason of this is 
that a buck has nothing to do but 
stand around and be lazy, almost any 
kind of feed is good enough for him. The 
consequence is that his feed is either 
fattening feed, such as corn, or a bulk 
feed, such as corn fodder. Either one 
puts a pot-belly on him, and I find very 
few people who know the difference be 
tween such a pot-belly and good, solid 
flesh. A buck really needs as careful and 
as heavy feeding as does a doe. to have 
him produce strong healthy kids. So in 
considering the sterility of a doe you also 
must consider the condition of the buck 
But even supposing she is sterile, is 
she worth keeping? Almost any well 
bred doe can be induced to milk without 
breeding, not that she will give the 
quantity of milk that she would if she 
had been regularly bred, but if you feed 
her a good protein feed and about the 
1st of May. when the balmy Spring days 
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away the few drops of watery liquid you 
will find in her teats, after a couple of 
weeks it will probably begin to look like 
milk, and the udder will begin to enlarge 
and the milk flow to increase, and you 
will soon get the finest flavored milk you 
ever tasted. Use a grain feed containing 
at least 15 per cent protein, and give her 
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