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Storey's guide to raising dairy goats : breeds, care, dairying, marketing /

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From the Back Cover: Minimal space and housing needs make goats a practical choice for small or backyard dairy farmers, and Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats is the one book farmers need to raise healthy, productive animals. This comprehensive and reassuring guide includes complete instruct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Belanger, Jerome D.
Other Authors: Thomson Bredesen, Sara
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: North Adams, Mass. : Storey Pub., [2010]
Edition:Fourth edition, New edition.
Series:Storey's guide to raising series.
Subjects:
Goats.
Animal Husbandry.
Table of Contents:
  • Basic information about goats
  • All about goat milk
  • Getting your goat
  • Housing your goats
  • Fencing
  • Feeding
  • Grooming
  • Health
  • The buck
  • Breeding
  • Kidding
  • Raising kids
  • Milking
  • Keeping records
  • Chevon
  • Dairy products
  • Recipes for goat products
  • Appendixes
  • A : Where milk comes from
  • B : Somatic cell counts
  • C : Composition of milk
  • D : Giving injections
  • E : Immunizations
  • F : Goat-keeping calendar : plotting tasks for a year
  • G : Making and feeding silage
  • Resources
  • Glossary
  • Index.