This guy & his wife has a camel farm near san diego (oasis camel farm, see http://www.cameldairy.com/ )...says that camels are different than cows in terms of milking..they will only give milk to their OWN babies..and only if the environment is right...and tthen for only about 90 seconds at a time.
.so
milking them for commercial purposes is a little more tricky..and they
are one of the few in the united states to actually do so..they make
some lip balm and a few other products from the camel milk, but not yet
milk for drinking (although it sounds like that's something planned for
the future if they can work it out).
These
were "one-hump" camels (ie dromedary)) as opposed to two-hump
(bactrian)...and you need a saddle to ride them (saddles shown at end of
this video) . One of the camels still had some of it's "winter fur" on
its back which he says he left on to show how easy it is to pull
off..and pulled out a small swatch.
so he did manage to get some milk from one of the camels and actually drank some of it from a jar straight from the camel ! wow ! says he loves it.
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1 Peter 1:23
