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H40-07 · Module 7 of 7 · Pages: 17 · Worksheets: 5
The dairy year: calendar and plan
How much milk your family needs, how much goats, sheep and a cow give through the year, what to make in each season and how to fill the larder with cheese and butter for winter
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In short
- A family needs roughly 150 L of milk per adult a year, with yoghurt, cheese and kajmak converted back to milk.
- A goat gives roughly 500 L a year, a ewe about 120 L, and a dairy cow five to twelve times as much as a goat.
- With goats and sheep, 60–70 % of the milk comes between April and July: that's when cheese for winter is made.
- For winter, plan on hard cheese, butter in the freezer and ghee; fresh cheese and yoghurt aren't made ahead.
- Write down litres and kilograms all year; next year's plan is built from those figures.
What's inside
Chapters
- How much milk a family needs
- How much each animal gives
- The lactation curve
- What to make in each season
- Stores for winter
- Time, equipment and cost
- Three examples of a dairy year
- End of the year: review and a new plan
- Common mistakes
- Printable checklist
Worksheets
- Calendar of the dairy year
- Family needs calculator
- Monthly milk plan
- Dairy larder inventory
- Costs and yearly review
Fields and checkboxes can be filled in with Adobe Acrobat Reader (desktop and mobile), and the calculator adds up by itself. Filling in may not work in some browsers. A print version comes with the screen PDF.
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