Wisconsin Life

The Nigerian Dwarf Goats are very colorful. Their small size makes them easy keepers. They have a wonderful personality but for someone like me who likes to milk and enjoys making cheese, the milk that comes from the Nigerian Dwarf Goats is very high in butter fat. And because of that it makes the best cheese. I've experimented with all different kind of cheeses. I've made cheese curds and mozzarella cheese and feta cheese. But my favorite-- my all-time favorite-- is chevre. This is all chevre right here. This is plain. This has dried cherries added to it that rehydrate after you put it in the cheese. And then this one is an herbed cheese log. But you can also use it for cherry cheese pie. Anything you would use cream cheese in you can use the chevre with. And this is Keifer. And this is yogurt. I'm really happy with my yogurt. This is just milk. Just so you can see the color. The other thing that's really awesome about Nigerian Dwarf Goat milk is it has a really sweet flavor. The thing that gives goat milk and also a lot of people say, "Oh, I don't like goat milk. It's so goaty." But the thing that makes goat milk goaty is often times the environment that you are milking in. If you've got some bad odors, like if there's a buck around or something, your milk will pick up that odor. Or if you buy goat milk in the grocery store sometimes it has kind of a goaty flavor and that's because somewhere in the processing or maybe in the age-- how old it is-- it picks up those flavors. One thing I've never had any cheese that has tasted goaty from the cheese that I've made with my goat milk. It's just always a really nice, clean flavor.