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Tips for New Dairy Goat Buyers
New dairy goat buyers should remember housing, breed traits, feed, and health before bringing animals home.
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San Clemente Island Bucks: Boys Will Be Boys
New owners have a vision of their bucks becoming violent, smelly, and crazed during the rutting season and a useless nuisance that hangs out in a corner throughout the rest of the year. Dispelling some of these myths can be an important part of raising San Clemente Island goats.
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How to Raise Dairy Goats for Organic Goat Milk
When you’re learning goat farming basics, it pays to ask yourself if you want to raise your dairy goats for organic goat milk. It’s a question asked more frequently, as people in the U.S. get more interested in growing and eating organic foods.
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Best Goats for Milk
There are many good reasons for raising dairy goats, and this article is the best place to start for more information about the best goats for milk.
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Fraga Farmstead and Creamery
A half-hour west of Portland, Oregon, on 33.5 acres that have been farmed since the 1920s, Fraga Farmstead and Creamery was the first goat dairy to be certified through Oregon Tilth; a legacy that the creamery takes seriously.
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How to Deal with an Aggressive Goat
You may receive varied advice for how to deal with an aggressive goat, but there are definitely techniques you should and should not use, and these coincide with how goats see us as herd members.
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Pneumonia In Goats
If you raise goats, sooner or later you will have to deal with pneumonia in goats. It is a common illness in goats, which can occur in both kids and adults.
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An Ode to Goats
Cheryl K. Smith writes what she’s passionate about, which is a focus on health care as a whole; however, as soon as she got into goats, “I knew I was going to end up writing about them.”
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I’m Selling, Trading, or Giving Away My Goat
Peggy Boone, owner of International Goat, Sheep, Camelid Registry IGSCR-IDGR, gives as short tutorial on the need for permanent identification.
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What to Do About Mastitis and Uneven Udders
Sometimes mastitis just happens. Even though the barn lot is kept dry and the bedding clean, the prewash and post-milking spray used effectively, sometimes an individual will exhibit signs of mastitis.
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