Does the milk you are consuming contain hormones? 

 
 What FLOCK-REPROD is going to change?

Sanitary progress: producing milk without hormones makes the milk better for your health

• Have the goats from which we eat the milk and cheese received a hormonal treatment for reproducing themselves out-of breeding season?

Nowadays, a lot of breeders are using artificial insemination with a hormonal treatment. These hormones allow them to control reproduction periods, and then, to guaranty milk production all year round.

• Do the hormones occur in the milk?

For regular consumers, there are risks for their health. The hormones administered to the goats, synthetic progestagen in a form of a vaginal sponge impregnated with acetate fluorogestone (FGA), can be found in the goats milk.
In order to reduce the risks, breeders are obliged to discard the milk unfit for consumption during the first 36 hours of the beginning of the treatment, because the hormones rates exceed the authorized thresholds. In addition, it represents a substantial economic loss for them.

• What FLOCK-REPROD is going to change?

Using the precautionary principle, FLOCK-REPROD suggests removing completely the hormonal treatments. The challenge of our researches is to set up a reproduction method more natural, in order to produce a milk healthier and a better cheese.