When you first start milking a goat that has just come into milk, you really need to milk twice daily, about 10-12 hours apart to keep them producing. If you start with once a day she won't produce as much and if you decided to pick up an extra milking later on, she probably won't produce much for you. They don't fully come into their milk supply until about 1 week after they kid. The colostrum is the best the first day. You can always drop to once a day milking later on once you have gotten her milking established.

Hope that helps.

Bonnie

There are different ways to do it. We don't milk the first month and leave the kids on the does. After that we isolate the does from the kids at night and milk in the morning. Then the kids are with the does until evening and we don't have to milk then. And if we have to be gone a day or two we just leave the kids with the does. Yes this does give us 1/2 the amount of milk we'd have with two milkings but it also allows us to have a life during milking season. Tom