Milking Male Goats (And Other Animal Lessons for 20-Somethings)

What you need to know.

You might not be able to milk a male goat (unless you’re think of “milking” and then sure, but that’s not what I’m talking about), but that doesn’t mean male goats don’t have mad milking stats, and its one of the most important things about them. Managing a goat herd teaches you a lot of important life lessons, and this one centered around udder size and butter fat, and extrapolates to one of the solidest struggles of young adult life, that is that sometimes two negative genes equal a double-negative, grade-A emotional deficiency. Let me start with the goats.

Fun Fact: breeding goats is scientific, data-driven process that has very little too do with the Dirty. (In fact, the more expensive the goats, the less likely it is that they’ve ever actually done the act. Artificial insemination is a serious cock-block.) Milk production is obviously important…