Cows or Goats? Which is Best?

[BraggSurvivor]

offgrid, as stated above there is no noticable difference in taste when fed properly. Ive had both, jersey cow and Kiko milk goats. Whatever milk I couldnt consume or sell it didnt go to waste. Growing pigs love milk and they seem to gain twice as fast. I sold the jersey a couple years ago because my second daughter was allergic to cow milk so I just kept the Kiko's.

[Ridge Wolf]

Unless you have fifteen people in your family or plan to live off of cheese, doesn't the answer have to be goats? The smaller amount of milk to deal with daily and the lower food requirements seem to make the decision for me, but I tend to over analyze things... I do need to find a store that stocks goat milk just out of curiousity. For those of you who have had both, is the difference noticeable?

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[JDJ]

I have it on good authority that goat milk on cheerios is terrible.

[Beo]

I'm a cow guy for sure, although that's prejudging because I have never had any goat milk or meat. Only tried lamb and didn't like it, guess you need to Greek (oh my Gawd Remy there's that Spartan thing again) to really apprieciate it

[buttercup]

Goats milk is gross, goat meat and lamb is nasty (only drinking and eating it if in dire need) beef is the KING of meats... nextto Deer

Oh, no it isn't........I drink goat's milk every day and it is great. You must have got some bad somewhere. Good stuff. drink it, make cheese, make yogurt.......much better than cow's milk for my money and certainly better than the sad stuff they sell in the grocery disguised as milk.

[Seppo Karhu]

Store bought goatsmilk won't generally carry the dandelion taste in the spring like the fresh stuff.

Having grown up on both cow and goat milk fresh from the barn, and tried various supermarket brands I still prefer the farm fresh goat over all else.

Of course there's also a trend towards goats milk for babies too, as it is closer to human milk in fat content and such.

[nell67]

The dandelion taste isn't as bad as the wild onion taste,not a good flavor for milk

[Beo]

Well I was raised on mama's br*** milk till ween'd but then its straight cows for me. Nothing beats a cold glass of milk whatever cow or goat you get it from.

[nell67]

You said it big brother,now,how 'bout a beer??

[Beo]

Sorry don't drink of the fermented anything, no beer or liquor here sis.

[nell67]

Ok,I'll drink one for you then,her's a glass of milk

[Sam Reeves]

but I think it was last year that we had a couple of scares about raw cows milk and a few people got sick. Here, I am thinking that raw milk off the farms is a no no.

I was raised on farm milk, eggs and butter and so was the rest of the world once upon a time.

Maybe the cows were sick?

[nell67]

I was raised on farm milk, eggs and butter and so was the rest of the world once upon a time.

Maybe the cows were sick?

Maybe the people just don't have the antibodies they used to have and now when they get raw product,they just cant handle it ???

[Beo]

In the old days we were a much hardier stock of people than we are today, now we're spoiled by our modern luxeries.

[nell67]

Exactly Beo,the milk maids didn't come down with certain diseases that other people came down with,because they developed antibodies to certain things that cows had.


http://www.jdaross.cwc.net/introimmunity.htm

[crashdive123]

Life expectancy 200 years ago - what? 40? Today? - 80? Seems like we're doing OK. (Must be those chemicals Trax is talking about)

[Beo]

Or all the junk in the food your already preserved.

[crashdive123]

Hmmmmm? Pass the Twikies please.

[Beo]

TWINKIE! Did someone say TWINKIE! Why thank you don't mind if I do, Rick ya want one?

[Rick]

I have no antibodies to twinkies.