Home milkers-bleach and the septic system.

[aggieterpkatie]

Call me crazy but I don't use bleach at all for milking. I wash equipment by hand, and put it in the dishwasher every other day or so.

 

[Farmfresh]

Plain old bread yeast works to help septic systems as well. Even yeast that has lost a lot of it's "poof" for bread will work in the septic tank. A new home for old yeast.

Do any of you ever have any problems with milk stone on your equipment? What do you use to remove that?

 

[savingdogs]

Yes, I get it but not on my milking equipment that I rinse right away, but on the glasses my sons use to drink chocolate goat milk. I would like to know how to get that off, bleach?

 

[nachoqtpie]

what is milk stone??? (I'm trying to learn all about goat milk and whatnot so that way when we DO get goats... I'm not AS surprised! LOL)

 

[miss_thenorth]

Well, according to the fias co site, you can prevent milk stone from setting on your equipment by rinsing and washing in luke warm--NOT hot water, and tehn once washed, disinfect as usual. I would assume the same would be true for glasses. My glasses are already frosted, so I havent noticed any. But, all in my household are told to rinse their glasses, (and milk containers when they get emptied) with cool water, esp if they are not going to be washed right a way.

Milk stone is a build up of the milk proteins ( I believe) on the surfaces of container that carry the milk.
A fil, builds up an d it is nearly impossible to remove, hence the reason they refer to it as a stone.