'Keeping Goats for Smallholders, A Beginners Guide' is an eBooklet that I have been working on for some time now. It's finally finished and ready for sale. The success of the first Sallygardens eBooklet on pigs, 'Rearing Weaners for the Table, A Beginners Guide' has encouraged me to continue with more. This goat guide is aimed at those who wish to keep goats on a flexible small non-commercial scale, perhaps to provide milk and cheese for their family. It draws together from many sources all the nuggets of information that took me months of research to gather before I felt ready to buy our first goats. Sources include books, websites, blogs, forums and friends. Also included is the practical experience we have gained during keeping our goats and advice from other veteran goat keepers. The booklet covers where to buy a goat, how to ensure you buy a quality animal, which breed will suit your needs, housing, feeding, fencing, milking, set-up and running costs, breeding and more.
Goats get a lot of bad press but by following a little bit of advice you can easily avoid the stereotypical nightmare scenario* and find yourselves a lovely couple of well natured and productive goats that will bring you many hours of delight and provide you with milk, cheese and meat. The eBooklet costs €8.
*goats breaking into vegetable gardens, destroying rose bushes, billies chasing their owners across fields, nannies flipping the milk bucket over your head etc.
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