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Get Your Goat Now!
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You Want Goats, But... You don't know anything about goats!
You want a goat, because you know they're sustainable livestock. You could make cheese or drink their milk, or eat their meat. Or maybe you just want a cute, cuddly companion who will mow down your weeds.
But who is going to tell you what you need to know?
Get Your Goat NOW! covers everything you as a first-time goat buyer needs to know -- from how to milk, how to care for your goat, where to get your goat, what to feed your goat -- and more! If you're considering goats, you need Get Your Goat NOW!
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Get Your Goat Now! - M.H. Bonham
GET YOUR GOAT NOW!
MH Bonham
Sky Warrior Book Publishing, LLC
© 2015 by MH Bonham.
Published by Sky Warrior Book Publishing, LLC.
PO Box 99
Clinton, MT 59825
www.skywarriorbooks.com
This book is not intended to substitute for veterinary advice. If your goat is sick, you need to bring it to the veterinarian as soon as possible.
Printed in the United States of America
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Introduction: Why This Book Now?
Goats. It seems that if you’re into sustainability, you’ve toyed with the idea of getting a goat or two. Even if you haven’t, it seems that goats are finally getting the attention they deserve as sustainable livestock. There are many positive things when it comes to goat ownership in comparison to owning other livestock, say, a cow. Not to insult cows or cattle owners, but nowadays cows are exceedingly unpractical, at least for the urban farmer or locavore. Cows are big, they require a lot of space and a lot of feed, and they produce a ton of milk — more than most families can drink. What’s more, they do have a pretty serious carbon footprint. You have to have several goats in order to even approach the amount of feed in the amount of poo that cattle produce.
Goats, on the other hand, are fairly manageable. Even the big ones maybe tipped the scales at 300 pounds. Most standard sized dairy goats weigh between 100 and 150 pounds, and smaller breeds such as the pygmy and the Nigerian dwarf weigh about 60 to 80 pounds — the size of a large dog. While cattle are grazers, goats are more in line with deer. They are browsers, not grazers, which means they’ll eat grass if that’s all that is available to them, but they’re more likely to eat your weeds, eat leaves off trees, eat bushes, and raid your vegetable garden. This can be problematic, especially if you’re growing your own food, but it gives you an idea that the goat is more versatile when it comes to their diet.
You don’t need hundreds of acres to run goats like you do with cattle. They aren’t as destructive as cattle: they make as much of a carbon footprint as a deer. While goats don’t mind
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