Welcome to Ryals Goat Dairy. We are the first Grade
A pipeline goat dairy in Mississippi. In April 2007
we started milking our herd of dairy goats. Our herd
consists of four breeds of dairy goats: Saanens, Alpines,
Nubians and Lamanchas. When we began milking we were
selling all of our milk for cheese production. This
year we began a Grade A Creamery and we can sell
pasteurized milk from the farm. We are currently in
the process of getting our farm fresh whole pasteurized
goat milk in stores.
Goat milk is delicious. It is the milk of
choice for most of the world. It is a natural choice
for those people that are sensitive or cannot tolerate cow
milk. Our goat milk is naturally produced and
contains no preservatives, is free of antibiotics, and
Bovine Growth Hormones. Our goats graze high quality
millet in the summer months, and in the fall and spring
they graze rye grass and oats.
Our milk is pasteurized on the farm. There
is no need to homogenize goat's milk. While the fat
globules in cows milk will separate to the surface (cream
rises to the top), the globules in goat's milk are much
smaller and remain suspended in solution. We do
still encourage all of our customers to give the milk a
shake as some slight separation can still occur.
Please visit this page often as we will be adding more
information frequently!
Ryals Goat Dairy
The girls waiting
their turn for milking.
Saanen doe walking
in for milking.
Our
goats eating grain while being milked. After they finish eating
the feeders lift up via a hydraulic system and the goats walk
forward and out of the barn.
The
goats being milked. Our barn is built parlor style like our cow
dairy. The goats are waist high which keeps us from bending
over. Sixteen goats can come in each side of the dairy barn.
Milking is over and these goats are waiting to be turned back
out into the pasture for grazing.
In
the summer, big fans keep the goats cool while they are waiting
to be milked.
Washing up after
milking.
Some of our goats
grazing in the pasture.
Ethan, enjoying a
donut and a cup of goat milk.
Members of the
Louisiana 4-H Goat Livestock Educational Award Group touring our
goat dairy.
"Louisiana 4-H
Goat Livestock Educational Award Group". Our farm was their
first stop on a week long tour of Mississippi goat farms and
agriculture activities.
Rocking
R Boer Goats Bill & Blake Ryals
42
Airline Highway
Tylertown, Mississippi 39667
601-876-6328
601-876-5516
Email: ryalsb@hughes.net