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Healthful Herd: Hydration and Water Quality for Goats
Add to Favorites Water quality for goats is an important factor to consider. Water is perhaps the most basic nutrient that goats need at all stages of life and production. …
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Hands-Free Goat Herding Part 2: Structural Strategies
Add to Favorites When it comes to movement, goats are guided by distinct natural preferences. Evolutionary survival mechanisms shape these tendencies. As prey animals, they instinctively move from dark to …
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Tails from the Trails: A Hot Summer Hike
Add to Favorites It’s sweltering out, entirely too hot for 9:00 in the morning, as I lead my goats over a loose section of scree that is our makeshift trail. …
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Plant Poisoning in Goats: Cardiac Glycosides
Add to Favorites Cardiac glycosides — a source of plant poisoning in goats — are a class of organic compounds that increase the output of the heart. Plants containing these …
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Goat Glam July/August 2025
Add to Favorites Goat Glam will feature two goats for conformation assessment each Time. We’ll discuss each doe’s good traits, what could be better, and what to look for in …
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Just for Fun: Reader Photos – July/August 2025
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
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?
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
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
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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