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Healthful Herd: Hydration and Water Quality for Goats
July 14, 2025 · · Health, Ownership

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
July 14, 2025 · · Ownership

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
July 14, 2025 · · Ownership

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
July 14, 2025 · · Health, Members Only, Ownership

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
July 14, 2025 · · Members Only, Ownership

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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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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