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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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13 Goat Symptoms You Should NEVER Ignore
Learning to notice goat symptoms is a science and an art. Here are some common things that I watch for when I go out to my herd.
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All About Goat Wattles
By general consensus of those who have attempted to define them, goat wattles are simply hair-covered appendages of flesh hanging from the throat area. hanging from the throat area. There are goat breeders themselves who have interesting theories on how, why, and what goat wattles are for.
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Rent a Goat, Build a Career!
Add to Favorites Jax Taylor’s rent-a-goat business started with heartbreak. Discharged from the Army, she searched for job prospects so she wouldn’t have to rehome her goats. The result morphed into …
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Breed Profile: San Clemente Island Goats
San Clemente Island goats are a critically-endangered landrace goat from California. They have a unique gene pool, descended from Creole goats imported to the Americas in the 1500s.
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Build Your Own Small-Scale Goat Milking Machine
If you’re raising goats for milk, it pays to build your own goat milking machine.
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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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The Udderly EZ Goat Milking Machine Makes Life Easier
So what do you do if your arms hurt too much to milk your goats? And how can a goat milking machine help?
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Spring Rose the Geep: a Goat-Sheep Hybrid
Sheep have 54 chromosomes while goats have 60. Because of this difference in the number of chromosomes, their offspring rarely survive to birth and are usually aborted.
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Goat Images Take the Podium
Goats recognize emotion in images of goats’ faces; goats look to humans for help and learn from us; goats’ personality differences affect learning … and many more research findings!
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