{"id":4115,"date":"2013-08-10T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T05:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2013-08-11T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T05:41:10","slug":"preparing-for-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/10\/preparing-for-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4106\" alt=\"20130810 007\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810-007-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810-007-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810-007.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For my birthday this week, Mum bought me a milking pail, milk strainer and two 5 litre cans, so I am ready to start milking. \u00a0 I will chill the can in an esky full of freezer blocks and water, then strain the milk into the can as soon as I finish milking. \u00a0Chilling the milk as quickly as possible reduces any goaty taste in the milk. \u00a0The cans fit in the vegetable crisper so when they are down to temperature, I can put them in the fridge before bottling for drinking or making cheese. \u00a0 At 18 weeks of her 21 week pregnancy, Midge apparently still has 4 weeks to go, but it seems her udder is getting bigger by the day. \u00a0I had a dream that her udder kept growing and was almost touching the ground by the time she had her kids. <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810_172444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4111\" alt=\"20130810_172444\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810_172444-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810_172444-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810_172444.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday this week, Mum bought me a milking pail, milk strainer and two 5 litre cans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goats","category-not-so-wildlife","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130810-007.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4128,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}