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Baby Goat Care: Bottle, Udder, or Both?
Before spring kids arrive, think about how you want to raise them. Will you bottle raise them, dam raise them, or do a little of both?
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“What did the goats eat this time?”
Goats unfortunately cater to their curiosity with their mouths and eat many things they shouldn’t, causing gastrointestinal blockages.
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Tube Feeding Baby Goats
Feeding baby goats with a tube can save weak or premature kids. Learn how to properly insert the tube, avoid inundating the lungs, to get precious colostrum into their tummies during a critical moment.
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How to Care for a Rejected Baby Goat
What to feed baby goats and how to care for rejected kids.
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Goat Journal March/April 2022
Goat Journal March/April 2022 is in homes and online NOW! Subscribe to Goat Journal for great stories on plants and trees that are toxic to goats, bottle-feeding baby goats and the dangers of letting them imprint on you, maintaining quality in the goats you sell, and kidding oddities such as superfetation and birth defects.
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Pasture Management for Goats
Good pastures are necessary for goats. Poor pasture management can cause many problems from bare spots to goat parasites.
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The Therapeutic Benefits of Cuddling Goats
Science and psychology have proven that interacting with our animal companions has many physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health benefits that add to our wellness and happiness.
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Socializing Dam-raised Kids
Socializing dam-raised kids takes time and patience. Keep your eyes on the prize. When the two of you begin your adventures together, every moment invested now will pay exponential dividends on the trail.
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Healthful Herd: Basic Hormones
Hormones work in minimal concentrations and are powerful enough to regulate everything from kidding to mating behaviors to the “fight or flight” reflex.
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The Cute, Adorable Nigora Goat
Let me introduce you to a new breed of goat that will rock your homesteading world. It’s called the Nigora goat.
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