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Feeding Goats and Sheep 101
Feeding goats can be as diverse as their purposes. Goats – and for that matter, sheep – have many different purposes: Meat, milk, pets, therapy, commercial production, and valuable homestead livestock.
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Goat Kid Milk Replacer: Know Before You Buy
Add to Favorites New products are always popping up on grocery store shelves. It can be fun to review new product labels, but overwhelming at the same time. By knowing …
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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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No Kidding: Baby Goats Need Colostrum
Add to Favorites Healthy baby goats are filled with personality. From playing and jumping to kicking up their hooves, they bring fun and laughter to your farm. This entertainment hinges …
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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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“What did she eat this time?”
Goats have an unfortunate tendency to cater to their curiosity with their mouths and ingest many things they shouldn’t, causing gastrointestinal blockages.
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Tube Feeding Baby Goats
Feeding baby goats with a tube can save weak or premature kids. Learn how to properly insert the tube, avoid inundating the lungs, to get precious colostrum into their tummies during a critical moment.
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How to Care for a Rejected Baby Goat
Add to Favorites Whatever the reason behind it, a rejected kid goat needs care right away. There isn’t much we can do to prevent rejection but we can be ready …
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Goat Journal March/April 2022
Goat Journal March/April 2022 is in homes and online NOW! Subscribe to Goat Journal for great stories on plants and trees that are toxic to goats, bottle-feeding baby goats and the dangers of letting them imprint on you, maintaining quality in the goats you sell, and kidding oddities such as superfetation and birth defects.
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