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My goat kids would be tapdancing on the bench. :) I make my cheese like that, only with white vinegar rather than lemon juice. Sometimes, I leave it as a soft ricotta-like cheese, but more often I make it into a pressed, feta-like cheese. I line a container (that has drain holes) with...

What a great start!

Well? Did you try it? Did it work? :-D 'Cuz I want to do the same thing!

As a farmer, I must take exception to this comment. I milk cows for a living and we take great care to clean and sanitize the teats before and after we milk. I also milk my goats for our own consumption - same thing - and we drink it raw. Eight years and never a problem.

There's also Canwax (canwax.com - I think). They were in the GTA but moved up towards Huntsville. I deal mostly with Sapphire Blue as I can pick up and visit a friend in Tillsonburg at the same time. Also, I buy most of my oils from them, so the money I save on not shipping the heavy stuff...

I make goat's milk soap as well, as my girls produce more than we need. Sadly, soapmaking doesn't use up an awful lot of milk. :Kitten Love: As far as recipes go, I just substitute goat's milk for the water. I freeze it in the quantity I need, and add the lye, very slowly, until the milk has melted...

How do you get rid of the teeth marks? :lol:

I used to work as a buyer for a manufacturer of industrial lubricants. As I recall, caprylic acid smelled a lot like dead billy goats! :shock: That being said, I'm jealous that you are able to make goat butter . . . bottle kids are drinking all my extra milk!

I do only 100% goat milk as I always have far too much milk in my fridge! :D I freeze it ahead of time, weighing out what I need for each batch in individual containers. I then add the lye to the frozen milk, a bit at a time, making sure I keep stirring the slush as it becomes liquid. It's...

Unless it came out of an udder, it's not really *milk*. :wink: So, yes, I would label it as water and oats.

Probably not pasteurized :D , in which case it won't be homogenized either - raw, straight from the cow.

Clothing is not - if you're planning to make soap! :shock:

Like MeadowHillFarmCT, I make goat's milk soap because I have my own goats. There's about 60+ litres in my freezer right now . . . :shock: I did just pull out a bar of the very first soap I ever made (without goat's milk), about two-three years ago now? and it's pretty nice! :D I have...

And here I was, expecting pictures of goats . . . :cry:

I didn't know you lived in Toronto . . . oh wait, he's still in office. :roll:

That's because it's "dead". :shock:

It sounds to me like you may have added the lye too quickly and burnt the milk. Did you dump it into the milk all at once? I freeze my milk solid and add the lye very slowly - maybe a TBS at a time, moosh it around, scrape off the slush, then add more lye. I keep stirring the almost liquid...

Given some of the weird stuff that people put in their soap . . . . I'm sure someone, somewhere, has tried it! :lol:

Interesting question! I believe colostrum has more vitamins, minerals and antibodies than regular milk - whether that would do anything for the soap or not . . . Me, I freeze it and keep it for the following year's kidding season. :D