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Just for Fun: Reader Photos – July/August 2025
June 30, 2025 · · Kids' Corner

Add to Favorites Just for Fun is where readers get to show off and share their own adorable and beautiful goats. As the newsletters progress through a two-month period, this …

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Goat News: July/August 2025
June 30, 2025 · · Members Only

Add to Favorites In “Goat News” we share goat stories of the current, odd, fun, and important. If there are stories that you’d like us to cover or want to …

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From This Side of the Ring: Which Kids to Keep?
June 30, 2025 · · Uncategorized

Add to Favorites Now that we’ve all survived kidding season and are watching our new bundles of joy jumping around the farm, creating havoc everywhere they go, it may be …

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Meet William Windsor: The Royal Goat
June 30, 2025 · · Kids' Corner, Ownership

Add to Favorites If you were to visit Llandudno, a seaside resort town in Wales, you’d see an impressive limestone headland known as the Great Orme. The thumb-shaped section of …

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Coccidiosis in Goats
June 30, 2025 · · Health, Ownership

Add to Favorites Diarrhea. Scours. The enemy of the healthy kid goat. Chances are, if you’ve been raising goats for any period of time, you already have a procedure in …

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Fire Season: The Goat Fire
June 30, 2025 · · Ownership

Add to Favorites Fire season is one of the seasons on our goat calendar. There is no preventing it, only preparing. Some fires are accidents, caused by harvesting equipment or …

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Reader Letters May/June 2025
June 14, 2025 · · Members Only, Ownership

Add to Favorites Do you have a question or a comment about your goats, their feed, housing, or an article you’ve read here? Feel free to email us at goatjournal@iamcountryside.com. …

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Life with Goats: A-Milking We Shall Go!
June 14, 2025 · · Members Only, Ownership

Add to Favorites by Roberta E Molaron – In the 1980s, the Bloomsburg Fair in Pennsylvania held a milking contest that had always been considered a competition for dairy cow …

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Quality Versus Quantity in San Clemente Island Goats
June 14, 2025 · · Members Only, Ownership

Add to Favorites When raising endangered heritage-breed livestock like San Clemente Island goats, there’s a temptation to breed every animal to gain as many young as possible. However, conservation breeding …

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Kelp for Goats
June 14, 2025 · · Feed & Housing, Members Only

Add to Favorites Kelp (Ascophyllum nodosum) is a seaweed in the algae family used by many goat keepers as a feed supplement. It’s the most common seaweed used for animal …

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