breeding goats
Quality Versus Quantity in San Clemente Island Goats
Add to Favorites When raising endangered heritage-breed livestock like San Clemente Island goats, there’s a temptation to breed every animal to gain as many young as possible. However, conservation breeding …
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Goat Glam: May/June 2025
Add to Favorites Goat Glam will feature two goats for assessment each Time. We’ll discuss each doe’s good traits, what could be better, and what to look for in a …
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Goat Registry Q&A with the ADGA
Add to Favorites Registering goats is important for multiple reasons. I spoke with Heidi Vanderloop, the communications and marketing specialist for the American Dairy Goat Association—a dairy goat registry since …
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Carpal Hyperextension in Nigerian Dwarf Goats
Add to Favorites Carpal hyperextension (CH) is a debilitating orthopedic disease that afflicts many Nigerian Dwarf goats. No scientific literature has yet addressed this disorder, and goat owners have struggled …
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Dam Raising or Bottle Feeding Baby Goats
Add to Favorites There are almost as many ways of raising goat kids as there are goat breeders. Dam raising, bottle feeding, milk-share, lambar-style bucket (nipples at the top), nipple …
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From This Side of the Ring: Goat Conformation
Add to Favorites Learn to understand the ADGA scorecard so you can better understand goat conformation, what the different terms are, and what to breed for. When the days get …
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Toxoplasmosis in Goats
Add to Favorites Toxoplasmosis in goats isn’t a disease that will cause severe production losses. However, its zoonotic risk makes it an important disease. Most people are instructed not to …
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What to Look for in a Breeding Buck
Add to Favorites A breeding buck is the fastest way to improve — or ruin — a herd of goats. Buck selection for breeding isn’t a decision to be made …
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Goat Meat: The Responsible Side Effect of Breeding
Add to Favorites How could anyone eat goat meat or sell such an endearing animal as meat? If you’d met us 15 years ago, we were there, too. Our farm …
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From This Side of the Ring: Choosing a Buck Goat
Add to Favorites What’s a good buck goat? One that has data behind him from ADGA performance programs or productive daughters. With the dog days of summer behind us, we’re …
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