Division 15. Milk and Milk Products Act, Part 1. Generally, Chapter 1. Short Title and Definitions, # 32505. "Dairy Farm" means any place or premises upon which milk is produced for sale or other distribution and where more than two cows or six goats are in lactation.
Therefore-
If six or fewer are milking, you can sell milk from your property, you may not advertise, but may put a small sign on your fence out front. Period. Does not apply to any other product than small quantities directly to a person. So the most you could make each month with 6 three quart a day milkers is about 4 1/2 gallons times $7.50 times 30 = about $1,000 a month gross. Then the regulations begin.
Local regulations supersede State regs., and State regs supersede Federal.
The *State* of California Food and Agriculture code , Chapter 5. Dairy Farms, Article 1. General provisions, #33452 that I have reads- A dairy farm is not required to have a mechanical sterilizer, mechanical cooler, or milk house or room, if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
Article 10. Manufacturing milk inspection.
#33321-33324- All these regs. pertain to the right of the dairy inspector to inspect all milk, milk products and the facility where they are produced, all regs. that apply to market milk also apply to manufacturing milk and facilities unless specifically modified herein.
If there are *local* regulations put upon this by the your Health Dept., the above may not be valid. It will be more restricted.
A word of caution here- The copies I have were gleaned from my library approx. five years ago. Things may have changed since then- so- OFF TO THE LIBRARY SO YOU CAN BE SURE!
Nineteen or more goats, and you have to contact your State of (...) Department of Food and Agriculture, Dairy Foods Control Branch, Division of Animal Industry, and speak with the dairy foods specialist. All plans have to be reviewed and stamped in his office BEFORE the county where you live can look at them; nothing may be changed without the dairy specialists approval and re-stamping.
Write or call the following for the dairy regulations
State of California
Dairy Foods Control Branch
Division of Animal Husbandry
1910 S. Archibald Avenue, Suite W
Ontario, Ca. 91761 909-923-9929
Case out all the pet stores in your area, they may be interested in carrying the milk, or at least letting you onto a referral list. They may have a frozen food locker they keep groung horsemeat and other frozen petfood items in. frozen goatsmilk, while not suitable for bottle-feeding because it clumps and plugs the nipples if used in puppy and kitten feeding bottles and tubes, is just fine for feeding older animals that can lap it from a pan.
How will you package or bottle the milk?
I'm not aware of a regulation prohibiting the sale of milk for pet purposes. Stamp your product with "FOR PET USE ONLY". The pasteurization is a very good idea, for litigation purposes, however there is no way to supstantiate the claim it has been properly pasteurized. A grey area, at best. It the goats are at least tested for the TB and brucellosis organisms and are identified as such on your label you would have some measure of relief. But still, without formal inspection, not really valid.