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Holistic Goat Care – The Owner’s Manual for Healthy Goats

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Holistic Goat Care gives the beginner building blocks for success while providing a more complex understanding of goat care for veteran goatherds. 

Holistic Goat Care delivers what the subtitle promises– “A Comprehensive Guide to Raising Healthy Animals, Preventing Common Ailments, and Troubleshooting Problems”. The chapters take you from understanding  goat behavior to a breakdown of health problems, divided out according to the body system affected. Gianaclis Caldwell intersperses technical information with personal stories of successful goat operations, which keeps the book from becoming just a bunch of formulas. She freely shares her own successes and failures. …

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Homestead Goats – What You Need to Know to Get Started

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Nimbrethil the goat resting

Nimbrethil, an Alpine doe, takes a break from carrying gear on a multi-day pack trip in the Oregon Cascades.

Raising your own homestead goats as dairy animals is a great way to get connected to your food source. Goats are not only a fabulous source of high quality milk, but are an incredibly versatile animal on a homestead. Homestead goats can also provide meat, fiber, carry a pack, clear brush, or serve as a livestock companion. Dairy goats have endearing personalities, which make them a joy to keep on virtually any size homestead….

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Goats for Sale – 6 Mistakes to Avoid When Buying Goats

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Buying goats is a significant investment – not just in the animals, but in all the time and equipment needed to care for them. We share 6 Mistakes to avoid when buying goats, plus questions to ask your goat breeder, red flags to watch for and reasons to buy registered goats. For better or worse, anyone with excess goats can announce they have “goats for sale”, so it’s up the buyer to protect their own interests.

goat on log

“Mistakes are a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.”

— Steve Harvey…

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