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    Kidding on the Goat Farm - With Information on Rearing, Breeding and Feeding Kids
    Kidding on the Goat Farm - With Information on Rearing, Breeding and Feeding Kids
    Kidding on the Goat Farm - With Information on Rearing, Breeding and Feeding Kids
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    Kidding on the Goat Farm - With Information on Rearing, Breeding and Feeding Kids

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    This book contains a classic guide to breeding and raising goats on a farm, with information on rearing, feeding, common problems and ailments, selection, and many other related aspects. Highly accessible and full of useful information and simple directions, this volume is idea for novice farmers wishing to add goats to their livestock, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of agricultural literature. Contents include: “Goat Farming”, “Kidding without Worry”, “The Kids”, “Disbudding Kids”, “Kids”, “Kidding”, and “Feeding the Kids”. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on farming.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 31, 2013
    ISBN9781447482420
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      Walsh

      Kidding Without Worry.

      To the beginner, I know well, the most to be feared part of goat-keeping is the first kidding experience. Anxiety increases at the approach of this time, and there is the fear that everything will not be all right.

      Such fears are absolutely groundless, as I and others have proved.

      The following has been written for me by a breeder of very considerable experience, and I can vouch for every word of it:—

      "When I started goat-keeping I knew very little indeed about goats. I started with an old non-pedigree nanny due to kid about a month after her arrival. I read all the literature on goats’ kidding which I could get hold of, and the result was that as Pat’s kidding approached I was simply terrified of what was going to happen, for the articles had told of all the complications which might occur so thoroughly that it seemed to me then that an easy, uncomplicated kidding was quite the exception.

      "Pat kidded with no trouble at all, and in fact so easily that I was absolutely surprised. I have had many goats since old Pat’s day, and have witnessed many, many kiddings, but I have only ever lost two goats through kidding, and both of these were old goats. Complicated kiddings I have found are decidedly the exception and I do not intend to deal with them here. The average healthy goat, not too highly bred, kids easily and is no bother. So, now feeling maybe, a little less worried over the coming event, what can you expect?

      "The gestation period of goats seems to be about 150 days, but watch her carefully after the 147th day, for after then you may expect the kids at any time. Put her in a loose box, untied, with plenty of clean straw bedding. Don’t leave food or water pails in the box in case of accidents. Watch her udder; if it is very large and tight don’t be afraid to milk her before she kids, it will do no harm and may do a lot of good, but only loosen it; don’t, of course, strip her.

      "Towards the end of the gestation period the goat will look less bulky, her tail will seem to be carried higher, and her flanks will look hollow, and there will be a deep depression either side of her tail—in fact, the kids have dropped into the position from which they will be born.

      "The first symptom is a thick-looking white discharge. The time elapsing between the start of this discharge and the actual birth of the kids varies considerably from an hour or two to several days, and so a watch must be kept carefully for further symptoms.

      "The goat next becomes restless and will call out to you in quite a different tone from her usual bleat, a rather

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