Milking and breeding goats at the Eagles Ranch

There have always been goats present at the Eagles Ranch to help nourish the Texel sheep that delivered too many lambs.

Especially the sheep lambs born as quadruplets still had the opportunity to grow into strong, healthy sheep.

For this reason some of the goat's lambs are seperated from the goats right after birth and put together with other lambs in pens where they are trained to drink milk from a special "lamb's bar" with artificial milk. Goat's lambs are usually easy learners. Easier than sheep lambs.

In 2007 The Eagles Ranch bought a large numer of white Dutch milk goats. They are milked two times a day.

Milking machine
The milking machine is bought from de Noordkroon.

Beside white Dutch goats we also breed multicoloured Dutch goats. Averagely, the goat produce 2.5 liters of milk a day, 300 days a year.

Lambing season
Lambs are born mainly in January and put together in a pen where they are fed from the special "lamb's bar" with artificial milk.

Milking twice a day
The goats are milked twice a day. The milk is sold to dairy farm Wezenspyk, Texel. Every day, early in the morning it is collected and taken to Wezenspyk.

Dairy farm Wezenspyk is specialist in making genuine Texel sheep and cow's cheese and will also bring the goat's cheese to market in 2007.

You might go and do a guided tour of the cheese dairy Wezenspyk.

The Texel Goatcheese is for sale in various shops and on the Texel market.

There are about 50 hotels and restaurants have that have this goat cheese on their menu.

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