Baking Soda for Goats
Goats are natural foragers who live on mountain tops grazing here and there on brush, twigs, bushes, and bramble. When you take a goat out of this habitat and try to feed it grass pasture, grain, and alfalfa, the goat's...
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5 Ways to Weigh a Goat
If you have small goat breeds like Nigerian Dwarf or are looking to weigh kids, then weighing your goat can be as easy as picking your goat up and stepping on a bathroom scale. But what if you have big...
The Goat Digestive Tract
Understanding our goat's digestive system is vital to keeping our goats healthy. Knowing the unique process that goats use to digest their food can help us make better choices about what to feed our goats, what supplements to offer, and...
How and Why to Give Your Goat a Copper Bolus
In this post, I explain how and why to give your goats a copper bolus. I cover how to look for copper deficiencies in your herd, what is a copper bolus, and how to easily give a goat a bolus...
Trimming Goat Hooves
Learning to trim your goat's hooves is one of the basic skills required for keeping goats. For most goat owners, trimming goat hooves is something that needs to be done about 8-12 times a year so it is a good...
Tapping Sugar Maples, Closed Collection System
Last year we tried this closed tubing system and it worked wonderfully! There is little room for contamination or spilling, and the buckets don't have to be emptied as often as with other systems. You only need a few supplies that...
13 Tips for the Best Tasting Goat Milk
I'm so glad that I never tasted store-bought goat's milk before we decided to get dairy goats. I knew I loved goat cheese and that was enough to sell me. But store-bought goat milk...how do I say this... store-bought goat...
How to Make Goat's Milk Butter
How we make butter from our fresh goats milk. Goats milk is naturally homogenized and requires a cream separator...
How to Save a Goat Kid with Hypothermia
Hypothermia can come on quickly. If your goat kids are experiencing hypothermia, it is an emergency and all efforts must be made to raise the body temperature immediately. Below I go step-by-step on how to save a goat kid with...
11 Reasons Why You Need a Barn Cam
I got a barn cam for Christmas this year and I am obsessed! It was the best $140 our family has ever spent. I'm not a big tech sort of person, but this has seriously relieved so much anxiety, especially...
