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Kate Johnson
Articles by Kate Johnson
Recipes to Use Up Milk
Looking for some new recipes to use up milk? Here is a list of some of the things you can do with milk, along with a few recipes with lots of milk.
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Training on the Goat Milking Stand
Goats don’t come out of the chute knowing how to get up onto a goat milking stand, let alone how to stand still on one while you’re milking those sensitive goat teats!
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Want to Offer Goat Cheese For Sale?
Add to Favorites Many people who keep dairy goats would love to offer their goat cheese for sale. But how easy (and legal) is this to do? Unfortunately, for most …
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An Easy Guide to Cheese Aging Equipment
Once you’ve mastered making soft and fresh cheeses, you may want to progress to pressed and aged cheeses. What kind of cheese aging equipment will you need?
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Udder Despair: Mastitis in Goats
Knowing how to diagnose this infection as early as possible, as well as how to treat mastitis in goats, are crucial if you want to maintain the long-term udder and overall health of your doe and to keep your milk production losses to a minimum.
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Preparing for Kidding
Add to Favorites 2 months prior to due date: Dry off doe: Does should have 2 months off from milking before they kid again. 6 weeks prior to due date: …
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Bottle Feeding Baby Goats
There are reasons you might choose bottle-feeding baby goats over dam-raising them. Whatever the reason, you likely have many questions.
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Saving a Weak Baby Goat
While most kids will arrive perfectly healthy and will need little assistance from you, knowing what to watch for and how to intervene quickly may enable you to save a weak baby goat.
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Baby Goat Care: Bottle, Udder, or Both?
Before spring kids arrive, think about how you want to raise them. Will you bottle raise them, dam raise them, or do a little of both?
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Selecting the Best Dairy Goat Breeds
What are the best dairy goat breeds? This depends on what you are looking for. The most prolific milk producers? A breed that does well in small spaces or under certain climate extremes?
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