For the Love of Goats Turns 5: A Look Ahead with Deborah Niemann
As we enter our sixth year, you can continue to expect to hear from more goat experts like vet professors and published researchers who are on the leading edge of goat knowledge and information.
You’ll also hear from goat owners who have turned their love of goats into a successful business. And this year, you’ll hear more stories about goats and the people who love them.
Episode 113For the Love of Goats Rotational grazing is the key to parasite control. After all, if you limit infection of your goats, you limit the potential for them to become severely parasitized. But there is more to rotational grazing … Read More
Episode 112For the Love of Goats New restrictions on over-the-counter antibiotics used in livestock will start in June 2023. Until now, anyone could walk into a farm store and buy penicillins, sulfa drugs, and other antibiotics without a prescription, but … Read More
Episode 111For the Love of Goats It can be scary for a goat owner to see something bulging from the vulva of a pregnant goat days or even weeks before the doe is due. In today’s episode, we are talking … Read More
Episode 110For the Love of Goats If you are raising goats for meat or other products, marketing is a big part of a successful business. In today’s episode, we are talking to Leslie Svacina, owner of Cylon Rolling Acres, about … Read More
Episode 109For the Love of Goats Whenever a goat dies, we always want to know why. But the only way to know for sure is to get a necropsy, and that’s what we’re talking about in this episode. I was … Read More
Episode 108For the Love of Goats All these years I thought we were just lucky to have never had a case of hoof rot in our goats, but in today’s episode, I learned that luck has nothing to do with … Read More
Episode 107For the Love of Goats Although it is a fairly common practice for goat owners to treat anemic animals with Red Cell after deworming, there had not been any research on whether it was helpful — until now. Today’s … Read More
Episode 106For the Love of Goats Almost everyone has a tetanus shot to protect us from a deadly disease that can be transmitted from an injury that breaks through the skin. Although some animals are not as susceptible to tetanus, … Read More
Episode 105For the Love of Goats Not only is a goat placenta very different from a human or horse placenta but how it functions is also different, as well as how it should be managed after birth. In this episode, … Read More
Episode 104For the Love of Goats If you only have a few does to breed each year, it might seem like a waste to own your buck. But even if you have a buck, who do you breed his daughters … Read More
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