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Benefits of Raising Dairy Goats
How to Milk a Dairy Goat
Kinds of Goats for Dairy Farming
Raising Dairy Goats: Housing & Space
Raising Goats: Fencing & Escape Prevention
Raising Goats: Food & Water
Dairy Goats & Parasite Prevention
Hoof Trimming Goats
Hoof Trimming Goats: Part 2
Breeding Dairy Goats
Dairy Goats & Healthy Pregnancies
Raising Goats: Labor & Birth
Labor Complications in Goats
Caring For Goat Kids
Bottle Feeding Baby Goats
Goat Culling for Herd Health
Keeping Goats for Entertainment
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"So once you've been smitten with the goat bug, you need to decide what kind, and how many. So there are numerous varieties of goats, and they come from different places, and they've been adapted for different purposes. We started out with the Nubians. And the Nubians are the ones with the big, floppy bunny rabbit ears. And they give the best milk. The highest quality, highest butterfat milk. So we started out with a Nubian who was with us until recently. In fact, our original goat mothered these, this one, and they're being bottle fed now. We bred the Nubian to the Boer, which is a big, robust meat goat. And then we added Alpine, and Saanen. Alpine and Saanen both being excellent dairy breeds. And what we've created here is a whole new breed, perhaps. Albosean, or Albopian, we'll have to find an appropriate name for it. As far as how many goats, that really depends on what your purposes are. If you're going to raise just a couple of pets, well you'll probably want to limit it to one or two dams, one or two does, and then each year, you'll get one or two kids from each one. Your housing capacity, your pasture, your food and just what kind of goals you have with your goat herd will determine from there how many to get. You absolutely need two goats though, they are social animals. And you probably wouldn't want to put one goat in a barnyard, she'd be lonely."
eHow Article: Kinds of Goats for Dairy Farming
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