Goats

A milk or dairy goat can provide milk for your family. In fact, more families around the world drink goat milk than any other kind. Goat's milk also makes wonderful cheeses. You can keep a single...

If you have, or plan to have dairy goats you probably plan to milk them. If you've never milked before this can seem to be a daunting task. Training your dairy goat to milk will make all the...

Naturally homogenized, goat milk is often touted as superior to cow's milk, but it does not come without potential problems. Problems you might encounter with goat milk typically occur as a result...

Whether you own one goat or 30 goats, you will need to consider milking if you plan on breeding your goats. Being aware of factors affecting how often you need to milk your goat will help you...

Milking is not hard to do, but it helps if you understand how the udder works: Imagine the udder as latex glove filled with water, imagine the teats of the udder as the fingers of the glove. Now...

Mastitis prevention is always easier than curing mastitis. Mastitis causes udder swelling, heat, pain and sometimes bloody milk. Often caused by infection, mastitis is preventable most of the time.

This article will discuss caring for pregnant Myotonic goats, how to determine their due date, and what to exspect when labor begins.

In selecting milking goats, there are few points to remember.

When mastitis is detected in a goat through reliable tests or by visual means, treatment must follow, as in severe cases of mastitis the goat may succumb to death through systemic infection...

Those big, floppy ears can easily drag in the water dishes. What is an owner to do in the winter time to prevent damage to their animals ears when it's impossible to keep the ears dry?

Goat's milk can be a good substitute for people who are allergic to cow's milk. Goat's milk can also be used to make butter, cheese, yogurt and ice cream.