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How to Raise Goats

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Whether you're raising goats for milk or meat or have them as pets, HOW TO RAISE GOATS provides an excellent survey covering everything from choosing among breeds to proper care, feeding, and keeping a herd healthy. Rural collections in particular will find patrons interested in these specifics, coming from a longtime goat farmer who explains all the pros and cons of goat-raising.

"Pet" focus with a "Farm" emphasis!

A reasonably broad topic book, with a very nice introduction to the choosing/breeding/raising areas and some great photo-to-text reinforcement. This book covers the general information well. Especially good as a general guide.

The photos and illustrations make the book. Well put together!

I have a 4-H group that is always wanting more information on goats, specifically dairy goats. This book gives a wide variety of information and has great pictures for visualization. I would highly recommend this book for beginner to intermediate knowledge on goats. It is current and offers information in a different way than you might get from Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats. (another book I would recommend)

Very useful and informative. A good reference book for our farm. You will find yourself going back to it again and again.
Good work.

If you've caught the latest round of livestock enthusiasm and decided that you want to consider getting a few goats, get this book. It covers basically everything you'll want to know.

From which breeds are good for which purposes, through how to find a reputable farm or shop to buy from, and on to selecting the individual goats to take home with you, the first few chapters give you a guide for figuring out how to start on your caprican adventure.

There are a few chapters in the middle about feeding, sheltering, and containing goats, and a few about diseases and ailments and treatments (though they seem to expect you'll have a veterinarian to treat your goats instead of expecting you to have a suture kit handy, which is probably true for most small-scale goat keepers).

After that, a quartet of chapters focusing on the specific needs depending on why you have goats. Dairy goats and meat goats have very different feeding requirements, if you're keeping goats for their hair you'll need to know how to keep them clean and when to shear them, and if you just want a pet you might not care at all to read instructions on how to milk a nanny or help her birth a kid.

No matter why you plan to get goats, even if it's just to keep the horse company, this book is a great place to start.

This is by far the best book we have found for raising goats! It is very well illustrated and covers every topic you would want to know. I especially like the explanations of the different breeds/types of goats. It helps you make choices on goat care, fertility issues, etc. by covering all the options so you can make informed decisions. You will not be disappointed in your purchase!

My friend Michael and I are getting ready to raise goats; we had visited a goat farm and decided to really start doing some reading beforehand, and saw this book. It is as good as the reviews said it was and really tells you everything you need to know to get started, and maintain your goat population. Would recommend to any one thinking seriously about goat farming on a small scale.

My husband and I found this book particularly informative. It reviews everything you need and want to know about goats. I would recommend this product to everyone!!

This is a great book for new goat owners. I love the nice pictures. I also have Storey's guide to raising goats and as meantioned in another review these are the best 2 books to have. Storey's for the detailed information and this one for the pictures and info. I'm very glad I got this and would highly recommend it for the novice and probably not so novice as well.

I have goats, so I have previously read books on this subject. In my opinion, this book tops them all. All the information you need, plus plenty of wonderful pictures. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has or who is interested in goats.