Goat Husbandry Books
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Your Goats by Gail Damerow
$14.95A book for young people who want information about raising and showing all kinds of goats. Learn More -
Raising Milk Goats Successfully by Gail Luttmann
$12.95A good book for the beginner, it covers basic management including nutrition, rations, housing, kid care, breeding, health care; plus sections on choosing sires and dams, showing, raising meat goats, training wethers to pull carts, and running a dairy business. Learn More -
Practical Goatpacking by Carolyn Eddy
$20.95Add to your goat packing library. Chapters cover the conformation needed for goats that will pack (including photos of good working breeds), herd health and management, training from choosing a likely prospect to advanced, gear, trail concerns, hunting with goats, toxic and poisonous plants, and field first aid. Learn More -
Angora Goats the Northern Way by Susan Black Drummond
$21.95This updated and revised fifth edition is new in 2005. Again available, this edition focuses on raising Angoras in cold climates. Learn More -
Raising Meat Goats for Profit by Gail Bowman
$19.95A comprehensive book on what you need to know to start raising meat goats for profit. Covers meat breeds, getting started, meat production, kidding and kid raising, health and diseases, feed ration tables, work calendar for goat ranch. Learn More -
Raising Miniature Livestock by Sue Weaver
$19.95A new Storey Guide book is divided into two sections, "Raising Miniature Livestock" and "The Species." Also has breeder stories and lots of line drawings and color pictures of various breeds. Learn More -
The Goat Handbook by Ulrich Jaudas & S. Mobini, D.V.M.
$12.95A basic, non-technical book on buying goats, goat care, housing, feeding, breeding, management, behavior, health, goat products, breeds of the world, and more. Learn More -
Raising Meat Goats, by Maggie Sayer
$19.95A new Storey Guide book covering most aspects of meat goats. Breeds, buying, selecting, traveling, housing, feeding, health, parasites, breeding, plus livestock guardians (lots on dogs also donkeys and llama), marketing, all specific to meat goats. Learn More -
Raising Dairy Goats, by Jerry Belanger
$19.95This expanded edition (revised in 2001) contains up-to-date information on milk, choosing a goat, housing, fencing, feeding, grooming, health, breeding and kidding, milking, raising kids, chevon and dairy products including recipes. Learn More -
Living with Goats by Margaret Hathaway with photographs by Karl Schatz
$24.95The newest offering by the author of The Year of the Goat. Subtitled "Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Herd," this book has chapters on advanced planning, housing, fencing, feeding, breeding, kid raising, health, goat milk, butchering, and other uses for goats. Learn More
