Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats, 2nd Edition
Managing, Breeding, Marketing
2nd Edition
Published on 8. December 2010
344 pages
978-1-60342-239-0 (ISBN)
Description
Discover how raising your own meat goats can be a fun and profitable endeavor. Offering plenty of tips for creating an economically viable operation and identifying niche markets for your products, Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats shows you how to care for a thriving and productive herd full of healthy and happy animals.
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Maggie Sayer has written numerous articles on animal raising and husbandry. Her Boer goats and dozens of rescued animals share the farm with Sayer and her husband in the Ozark region of Arkansas, where goat production has taken sustainable agriculture by storm.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Why Meat Goats?
- The Pros and Cons of Raising Meat Goats
- Finding and Working with a Goat-Savvy Veterinarian
- There's More Than One Way to Raise a Goat
- Which Niche?
- 2 Before You Begin
- Adding Your Farm to the Equation
- Availability Matters
- Do the Homework
- 3 Which Breed?
- Parts of a Goat
- Boers
- Savannas
- Kikos
- Myotonics
- Tennessee Meat Goats
- Composite Breeds
- Spanish Goats
- Dairy Goats
- Angoras
- Registered, Fullblood, Purebred, Percentage, or Crossbred?
- 4 Where (and Where Not) to Buy Goats
- Individual Producers and Breeders
- Which Seller?
- Production and Dispersal Sales
- Sale Barns
- 5 Selecting Breeding Stock
- Don't Buy Trouble
- Breeding Better Boers
- Look 'em Over Before You Buy
- Closing the Sale
- 6 Think Like a Goat
- Range and Feeding Behavior
- Social Order
- Breeding Behavior: Bucks
- Breeding and Kidding Behavior: Does
- Behaviors of Newborn Kids
- Goat Handling 101
- 7 Goats on the Go
- Stress and the Traveling Goat
- Plan Ahead
- Weather Kills
- Choosing a Hauling Conveyance
- 8 Meat Goat Housing and Facilities
- Shelter
- Pens
- Feeders
- Watering Devices
- Handling Facilities
- Fencing
- 9 Feeding Meat Goats
- The Caprine Kin (Keep It Natural) Diet and Your Goats
- The Goat's Digestive System
- Goats and Poisonous Plants
- A Forage-Based Diet
- 10 Keeping Goats Healthy (and What to Do When They Aren't)
- To Be or Not to Be Your Own Vet?
- Learning the Ropes
- Checking Vital Signs
- Caprine Maladies You Should Recognize
- Stop Disease in Its Tracks-Vaccinate!
- Antibiotics: Good or Bad?
- Epinephrine-Don't Leave Home without It
- Drenching a Goat
- Medical Alternatives for Goats
- 11 Parasites 101
- Dewormer-Resistant Worms
- Meet the Enemy
- Other Gastrointestinal Nematodes
- Reducing Drug Resistance
- Those Other Worms
- External Parasites
- 12 Livestock Guardians
- Statistics Tell the Tale
- Protecting the Herd
- 13 Breeding Meat Goats
- Bucks Are Half the Herd
- Those Does
- You've Got to Be Kidding
- 14 Marketing Meat Goats
- Market Goats
- Breeding Stock
- Show Goats
- An Unexplored Market: Working Goats
- 15 Promoting Your Goat Business
- Choosing a Business Name
- Web Sites Sell Goats
- Industry Advertising for Pennies
- Make Business Cards Your Ace in the Hole
- Create Your Own Flyers and Brochures
- 13 Additional Easy, Low-Cost Promotion Strategies
- Appendix A: DEFRA's Code of Recommendation for the Welfare of Goats
- Appendix B: Photograph Your Goats
- Appendix C: Identify Your Goats
- Appendix D: Trim Your Goats' Hooves
- Appendix E: A Milk Goat for the Kids
- Appendix F: So You Want to Show Meat Goats?
- Appendix G: Clipping for Shows
- Appendix H: Emergency Euthanasia
- Resources
- Glossary
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