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Reader Letters May/June 2025
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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Blister Beetles and Alfalfa
Add to Favorites Seeing beetles on a hay crop is alarming, but the sight of blister beetles, which love to feed on alfalfa, is on another level. They’re most common …
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Growing and Cutting Hay
With the rising expense of hay, if you have the space and equipment, growing and cutting hay for yourself could be a way to reduce costs. Even those with smaller spaces can supplement their hay in summer.
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Poisonous Plants to Goats: Alkaloids
Add to Favorites Poisonous plants to goats can cause anything from an upset stomach to death. Find out if your fields are harboring dangerous plants. As the weather warms, people …
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The Importance of Goat Teeth
Add to Favorites Goat teeth are an important and often overlooked aspect of goat health. Learn how they develop and what problems can arise. New goat owners may not realize …
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How Weather Impacts Forages
Add to Favorites Feed can be the most significant expense in raising goats, often exceeding other costs. There’s plenty of pressure to strike a balance between cost and nutrition, but …
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Goat Mineral Buffets: Are They the Best?
When it comes to providing a good goat mineral, some producers are experimenting with “mineral buffets,” but do they work?
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Understanding Zinc Deficiency in Goats
Add to Favorites Zinc deficiency in goats more commonly seen skin and hair abnormalities, weight loss, stiffness of joints. Learn how to spot a problem. Minerals are perhaps one of …
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Beware Goat Toxins
A goat may not ingest much of a single toxin, but even small amounts can have negative impacts not immediately noticeable to the naked eye.
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The Fear of Fescue Hay
Red 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.
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