How to Train a Goat to be Milked
With proper training, milking can be an enjoyable experience for both you and your goat. Here are some tips to get your goat used to being in the stanchion, handled, and milked with minimal stress.
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6 Mouse-proof Grain Storage Ideas
To prevent rodent-carried diseases, contamination of your livestock feed, and wasting money, it’s important that grain be stored securely. Here are a range of ideas for keeping mice and rats out of your animal feed.
How to Band Buck Kids: One Method for Castration
Banding is an effective method of castration for male goat kids. Provided are the equipment and steps needed to complete this procedure on your own farm.
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How to Make a DIY Creep Feeder for Goats
If you want your goat kids to have access to grain, without having to worry about the adult animals in the pen eating all of the food, you need a creep feeder. Here are the directions for making a corner creep feeder with a cattle panel. This works great for putting extra weight on dam-raised market kids.
Mother Knows Best: 5 Reasons to Dam-Raise Goat Kids
When managing a goat herd, you have to choose between dam-raising and bottle feeding kids. There are pros and cons to each scenario, but here are the reasons why we prefer dam-raising on our farm.
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How to Disbud Goat Kids
If you don’t want to have a goat with horns, one method for preventing their growth is disbudding at a young age. Here are the equipment and steps we use to disbud goat kids on our farm.
16 Items to Have in a Kidding Kit
If you have a pregnant goat, there are several things you will want to have on hand for the day the kids arrive. Here are our favorite items to have in the kidding kit. This will help you be prepared for routine procedures as well as issues and emergencies.
8 Reasons to Keep Horned Goats
Both male and female goats grow horns naturally, unless they are polled. Here are the reasons we let the goats on our farm keep their horns. Some of the reasons may surprise you!
How to Draw Blood on a Goat
You might want to send a blood sample in from your goats for pregnancy or disease testing. Drawing blood from your own animals is easier than you might think. Use these directions and tips to complete this routine procedure on your own herd.
7 Reasons to Raise Your Own Meat
It is extremely rewarding to be able to provide home-grown meat for your family. Here are the reasons we raise a variety of species of livestock on our farm. If you don’t have the space or time to raise your own, these can also be reasons to buy local, humanely-raised meats.