How many goats per acre for maximum production? Discover the ideal stocking rate and best practices to maximise goat ...

Goat fattening is nothing but ‘intensive feeding of goats in feedlots to slaughter weight with an adequate finish or fat deposit’. Advantages of goat fattening Technically, it is quite simple ...

Goat kids that are on the bottle (or nursing from mom) will start trying to nibble on feed pretty early. It’s ok for them to try some if they want to. Their new ruminant stomachs require time to ...

Raise a calf! You may choose to bottle feed a calf for several reasons. As a cow/calf producer who also happens to operate a goat dairy, I have bottle fed calves with goats’ milk in the past ...

This year, instead of sending it to a landfill, consider feeding it to a hungry herd of goats. Local farms around Massachusetts are once again hosting annual Christmas tree drops to feed goats and ...

A Cornish dairy farm has asked people to donate their real Christmas trees so its goats can eat them. Polmarkyn Dairy owner Glyn Thomas said the trees were in addition to the their usual winter ...

There’s a farm in Western Massachusetts that collects Christmas trees to feed its goats. With the new year, it’s time to get rid of your Christmas trees. Instead of kicking them to the curb ...