MilkQuest # 2 - Cows and Goats I know. Can other, more exotic mammals, be milked ?

Question

Llamas, Gnus, Ibexes, etc.

Answer 1

Yes they can. There is Yak milk and butter as well as water buffalo mozzarela cheese. your cat might scratch you though.

Answer 2

I hear that camel's milk is wonderful.  My husband has had it and says it's very sweet.  You can get it in Middle Eastern food stores, I would imagine.  He had it with some of his late brother's friends, who were of Middle Eastern descent, though i don't remember exactly where they were from.

Answer 3

Yes people milk a varriety of animals.

Bacterian camels

Dromidary camels

Yaks

Water buffalo

Mares (horses)

Sheep

Llamas

Reindeer (not common to milk them)

Donkeys

Guar

That's about it for the critter humans milk, for the purposes of consuming their milk.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Active wildlife study over 20 years

Answer 4

There is cheese from several types of sheep.  You can buy canned cat milk at a pet store (to feed orphaned cats--so someone milks it); also I believe prized arabian horse milk was fed to bedouin children. Since llama were used in peru for everything, I would guess they also provided milk for something.