The Best Goat Milk in BC

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The best goat milk in BC

 

Snapdragon Dairy – Karen & my dairy – claims to be the best goat milk in BC. Moreover, I do not think we are exaggerating at all.

           Every dairy in BC, cow milk, goat milk, sheep milk, or buffalo milk is required to send in milk samples every month. The testing is at the big milk laboratory in Abbotsford. Each sample has to have a maximum level of bacteria and a maximum level of cells per milliliter.

With cow milk, machines do the testing and the number of cells in the sample is very useful information for the dairyman. The way a cow/cow’s udder makes milk is different from a goat or sheep. If the numbers of cells increase, it means that an infection is brewing and the dairywoman can get on it and treat for it.

 

Goat milk undergoes the same cell count via a machine but because a goat udder produces milk differently, the cell count is not as useful. Scientific research has established that many cells in the milk do NOT indicate infection or bacteria – it is just a component of the goat milk.

 

Goat milk is tested for bacteria by actually putting a swab of milk on an agar plate and incubating it for 24 hours. The numbers of colonies of bacteria that grow are counted and that becomes your test result.

 

          Five thousand (5000) colonies is considered excellent – keep in mind that these are a mixture of bacteria, healthy good bacteria and maybe some baddies but that’s not what is being tested. If your score is 50,000 you must test again in 1 week – sometimes this can happen if part of the milking machine was not cleaned properly but it is not good enough. For 7 months in 2011 and for every month (so far) in 2012 – Snapdragon Dairy is scoring one thousand (1000) – 5 times better than excellent!!!

 

          I don’t know what other goat dairy’s are testing but from the comments from the provincial inspector I don’t think anyone else is hitting the 1000 mark month after month after month.

 

          That is why I can state with all assurance that our milk is the BEST in BC.

           Plus it tastes just great and Karen & I have been drinking it raw for 17 years!