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This handbook is a reference for goat keepers. Valuable to beginners and veteran keepers, it offers helpful information for enjoying the benefits of healthy, productive goats while minimizing costs and problems. The book contains information on the biology, origin and behavior of goats; their many uses; the breed characteristics and physical conformation (of dairy and meat types); buying and transporting tips; housing, fencing and other aspects of...
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"The story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats ... traces his journey of choosing the goats and learning how to breed, milk, and care for them. In his transformation from staunch urbanite to countrified goat farmer, Kessler explores the rustic roots of many aspects of Western culture, and how diet, alphabet, religions, and economy...
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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 instructions for turning your goat milk into profitable cheese, yogurt, kefir, and butter. The revised and updated fourth edition includes: Updated information on...
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In the newest addition to the successful "Living With" series, Hathaway and Schatz let readers in on everything they need to know about how to raise one—or twenty—goats in their own backyards. Readers will discover how to raise goats either for milk, meat, or companionship, and how to shelter and care for their pets depending on the breed (whether they're eventually going to eat them or invite them into their family circle). Between the friendly...
9) Trudy
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It seems as though Trudy the goat knows when to expect snow, but it turns out that she is really expecting something completely different.
10) I'm on it!
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"When Frog and Goat turn a simple game into an all-out competition, things get out of hand...until finally, they're over it"--
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Goats have been used for their dairy products for hundreds of years, providing a wide array of milk, butter, yogurt, and cheeses that provide the unique flavors that make Mediterranean cuisine so special. For those who are interested in raising their own dairy goats it is important to first learn everything possible about dairy goats, from what they eat to how they breed and how to cultivate and harvest the milk. This book provides every detail you...
13) Goats
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Examines the history and folklore of goats as well as their life cycle, adaptations and breeds.
16) Once upon a goat
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When a proper king and queen ask their fairy godmother for a child, they find themselves gifted instead with a baby goat.
17) Grumpy Goat
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Goat is the grumpiest animal at Sunny Acres farm until he remembers that there is more to life than eating and being alone.
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