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Story: Goats and goat farming

Milking time

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Milking time

Specially designed sheds and equipment are available for milking goats. This herd was run by the Barnett family near Wainuiomata, outside Wellington, in the early 1980s. The milk was sold to local health shops.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1982/1766/7

by Merv Griffiths

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Allan Gillingham, Goats and goat farming – Farming goats for weed control and milk, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16592/milking-time (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.