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Intereseting way of milking goats: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZaZgfe2Gyk0/XqHI23JcnqI/AAAAAAAAWbU/__JJl59tPlMHDesbJI8mUWxVQ3oJz67ogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/old_photos_
by cheese_goddess 5y ago
Intereseting way of milking goats:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZaZgfe2Gyk0/XqHI23JcnqI/AAAAAAAAWbU/__JJl59tPlMHDesbJI8mUWxVQ3oJz67ogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/old_photos_Bedouin%2B%252821%2529.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZaZgfe2Gyk0/XqHI23JcnqI/AAAAAAAAW...
The animals are in a line bunched up close and alternating facing so that one animal has its head on the shoulders of the two animals next to itself and looking towards their rear.
I haven't seen that before. More peculiar is that I can't see them eating anything. Normally when animals are milked, it's lunch (or dinner) time. They line up in front of their troughs and they're milked while they eat. Typically there's some kind of divider or railing to keep them more or less still also. Otherwise you need to have really well disciplined and calm animals or you'll get lots of hooves in milk pots and so on.
It's also very interesting to see how they dried their cheeses on top of their tents. These look like small, lactic cheeses. If they had a good source of salt they would probably be very high on salt both to help preserve and sanitise them and also to replenish the salt lost by the people to the heat of the desert. Anyway that must have been really strong cheese: sun-dried, very salty, goat's milk cheese. Yum.
- h2odragon 5y agoThem critters is tied to something.
- cheese_goddess 5y agoThey could be but it's not visible in the picture. There might be a long wooden bar in between them. There sure is no food though.
- h2odragon 5y agoI'm thinking ground rope and short leads. I've seen something similar done with pack goats. scatterign food on the rope helps train them to it, they'll wait more patiently if they know the ritual includes food sometime. even just a snack.
- cheese_goddess 5y agoThat makes sense but in that case they'd have their heads down. The animals in the picture are standing with their heads up, looking straight ahead. All of them!
- daddylongstroke 5y agoNot that hard to train your goats or cows to this; highly dependent on the animal's inherited personality though. I would routinely milk one of our cows when I was a kid right out in the pasture. She was calm as ever, no food was ever required, and she was never tied to anything. Obviously, she was just very happy to be milked and have the pressure released from her utter (her babes were the same ilk). I agree though, seeing the goat line-up is quite interesting. :-D My current herd would not stand for it, I assure you.
- cheese_goddess 5y agoTrain them! I have to confess I'm useless with animals. Last time I tried to help, it took three of us to milk one goat. Then she put her foot int he milking pot :) But that's a herd that's been allowed to go wild and we were primarily milking them for their relief. They're anarchist goats. If I stay longer on the farm (which is not mine) I may give it a go taming and training them, though. Should be fun :D
- daddylongstroke 5y ago:-D That's one of my primary reasons for loving goats so much - they 100% completely refuse to bow to industrial agriculture or the whims of man. All goats are anarchist goats. :-D I love it! Good luck! Embrace the anarchy.
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