what do you do with all that milk?
We keep a fairly informal log of Isabel's output, and a tally of what we do with it. Here is one week of winter milking:1/23: 3 3/4 gal. 3 1/2 gal mozz. 3# butter 3 gal. whey, 1 gal. buttermilk1/24: 3 3/4 gal. 1 1/2 gal. yogurt1/25: 4 gal. 2 1/2 # butter 3 qt. buttermilk1/26: 3 3/41/27: 4 gal. 3 1/2 gal. mozz. 2# butter 3 gal. whey, 3 qt. b'milk1/28: 4 1/4 gal. 1 1/4 gal. yogurt 1/2 gal. sour cream1/29: 4 gal.This entry is not exhastive; we sometimes forget to enter things. Whey and buttermilk go a long way toward feeding the pigs, chickens, and cats. We drink about 1 1/2 - 2 gallons of milk a day, and, yes, we do eat all that butter and cheese. Any milk we can't use -- say, in spring and summer, when we are getting about eight gallons a day -- we start steers on, and either eat the steers ourselves, or sell them to our grass-fed beef customers.