About the Author

Kenny Coogan

Kenny Coogan is a food, farm, and flower columnist. Coogan leads workshops about owning chickens, vegetable gardening, animal training, and corporate team building on his homestead. His newest book 99 ½ Homesteading Poems: A Backyard Guide to Raising Creatures, Growing Opportunity, and Cultivating Communityis now available at kennycoogan.com.
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Articles by Kenny Coogan

Goat News: May/June 2025
April 30, 2025 · · Members Only, Ownership

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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Goat News: March/April 2025
March 1, 2025 · · Members Only, Ownership

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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Pack Goat Forest Closures
February 11, 2025 · · Uncategorized

Add to Favorites Pack goat forest closures continue to impact hiking and hunting with pack goats. Are the restrictions necessary? What can be done about it? From casual day hikers …

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Hunting With Pack Goats
February 9, 2025 · · Uncategorized

Add to Favorites Nathan Putnam of Putnam Pack Goats has utilized pack goats to assist with backpacking and, more uniquely, hunting with pack goats for nearly nine years. A member …

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Callu de Cabrettu
February 8, 2025 · · Home Dairy, Members Only

Add to Favorites Callu de cabrettu is one of the traditional food techniques Schindler learned about from the residents of Ogliastra Region in Sardinia, Italy “This is the most rudimentary …

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Preventing Meningeal Worm with Poultry
January 27, 2025 · · Health, Members Only, Ownership

Add to Favorites Meningeal worm (Paralaphostrongylus tenuis), also known as brainworm or deer worm, is spread between white-tailed deer and domestic goats, sheep, and other livestock and causes severe neurological …

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Goat Yoga
December 18, 2024 · · Ownership

Add to Favorites Just north of Tampa, Florida, Debbie Canton and her husband, Rob, run the Grady Goat Foundation (GGF), which offers weekly goat yoga classes. Many people are familiar …

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Living With a Large Goat Herd
December 15, 2024 · · Members Only, Ownership

Add to Favorites On a picturesque rim in Troy, Idaho, with 320 degrees of canyon view, Karen and Dale Kopf, owners of Kopf Canyon Ranch, raise a large goat herd. …

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Raising Goats in Summer Heat
October 23, 2024 · · Members Only, Ownership

Add to Favorites Goats can be found pretty much everywhere people are and some places where people aren’t. However, although they’re adaptable to most situations, we still need to understand …

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Goat Photo Shoots
March 15, 2024 · · Ownership

Chad and Amanda Hudgins looked to supplement their grazing business, they turned to their goats’ glitz and glamor for goat photo shoots.

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