When raising goats, prepare for many seasons: breeding season, kidding season, show season, winter — and for many in the western states, FIRE season.
Read MoreThe thought of goat lice may make your skin crawl but they’re common in the winter months. Learn how to identify and treat these pests.
Read MoreHorns crack, chip, and break. Depending on where in the horn this occurs, a goat horn injury can range from unremarkable to life-threatening.
Read MoreIf you dread choosing hay for goats, you are not alone … there is much to know about what to feed goats.
Read MoreRed bag, abortions, thickened placentas, founder, necrosis, failure to freshen — all are symptoms of fescue toxicity … and yet tall fescue is one of the most common forages for livestock in both pasture and baled grass hay.
Read MoreSometimes, circumstances make artificially raising a kid goat best for the kid or the dam. It is essential that when we raise a baby of another species, we consider the risk of imprinting.
Read MoreThere are things we expect to come out of a doe at kidding — and things we expect to stay in. Sometimes the unexpected occurs. Like a goat prolapse.
Read MoreBanding goats is how to castrate males that will not be used as bucks. Timely banding can be the safest, least intrusive way to accomplish castration.
Read MoreWhy do goat birth defects happen? Unexpected outcomes range from unusual to unsustainable deformities in rare cases.
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