What Feeding Goats Costs
Do you want to buy goats for your homestead or small scale farm? Do you wonder if it would be worth doing so and what it would cost you to …
Keeping Goats
What Not to Feed Goats to Avoid Accidents
Where does the myth that goats can eat anything come from? And does that also mean that you can feed goats anything? Fact is that goats are not only picky, …
Feeding Goats, Some Things You Didn’t Know.
Can you give me the name of a country were there are no goats? No? Why not? Because they are very flexible in their diet. Does that mean goats eat …
Body Condition Scoring for dairy goats, made easy.
Why Body Condition Scoring? Body Condition Scoring (BCS) is a practical DIY tool to find out what fat and muscle reserves a goat has. It is a way …
What do goats eat?
Rather than being grazers, goats are browsers: they look beyond the grassy pasture to the shrubs and small trees. While they occasionally (and possibly disastrously) love fresh green herbs and …
Farming story: Goats, Milk and Cheese…
In the morning, when we get up I see our goat Bianca through the window. She is looking though the window into our sleeping room, thinking: “maybe they are up …
Clearing land with goats.
Every year in January and February we walk the goats over our terraced orchard. Yes! Right though our orchard. Clearing land with goats and having fruittrees at the same time …