Raising Goats 101 🐐: Beginner FAQS
Welcome to Goats 101. These cute and curious critters could be a great addition to your farm or family- but there is a lot to consider first. Can you have just one? How do you keep goats from escaping? How do you get goats milk? Don't worry- we will answer all these questions and more as Wren takes us through her top 10 most asked Goat questions. You herd it here first!
Resources:
Original Blog Post: insteading.com/blog/beginner-...
How Many Goats per acre? farmingbase.com/goats-per-acre/
Goat Fencing Options: insteading.com/blog/goat-fenc...
Dairy Goats: americangoatfederation.org/br...
Feeding Goats: insteading.com/blog/what-do-g...
Plants Toxic to Goats: poisonousplants.ansci.cornell....
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:22 Can You Have Just One?
0:48 How Many Goats Per Acre?
1:33 Deworming?
2:49 Goats and Permaculture
4:11 Goats Escaping
5:21 Goat Breeding and Milking Equation
9:07 Good Milk Breeds
9:42 Making Goat Friends
10:57 Feeding Goats
12:37 Conclusion
Geoff Lawton had a great video on using goats to pasture in brush and wooded areas to make smaller trees and limbs ready to be cut for rocket stove fuel, so as long as you have an area that you want either controlled or browsed, goats can be alike brush hogs that give you milk and meat^^.
Very informative, thank you.
It's always a good day when there's a new Insteading video ❤
This was very helpful.....the one that made me pause for concern was about the breeding in order to get milk. I use goat milk soaked cracked corn to finish off my meat chickens but it is getting harder to find at a good price for the amount that I need; that is why I am thinking of getting two goats.
I’m researching to set up a similar use. Have you expanded to add the milk goats?
@@trevacraigbailey224 Have not done it yet.....I found a dairy farmer willing to sell me excess milk for the time being.
Thank you for this video
Thanks for your video, I so want to raise goats, people all ways say that when they live in an apartment and don't have a flower pot of land.thats me!
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Great video! I jad read that Japanese knowledge helps milk production, we have it unfortunately and even into property next to us. Any info or tips on that plant by chance?
So sheep are actually a better choice (lower maintenance) for a small hobby farm that wants primarily milk and secondarily fiber?
How do you train goat to behave 8:00
Goats are fantastic if you are over run with brush and invasive weeds. Like everything education with a good dose common sense.
The music makes me loco
Is there a goat breed that is good for fiber and milk?
My buck is a sweet and nice and when he's not he stays out of your way. Not sure what you mean by the downside of having a book?? Maybe I just got lucky....
It’s 3 o clock in the morning, I already have cats, and dogs, I just took my newest puppy out for a walk, and I realize now that I need boa constrictors, an African bullfrog, a large tropical fish tank , a beehive, and two of these things. And an Argentinian Tegu just to be safe.
You don't have criminals
@@isiahmagagula1694 I have 3 kids, all of whom are criminals.
Why are those goats on FRECKIN CHAINS?
I have a Nigerian dwarf doe. she is wet under her tail. she hasbeen wormed goatinerals baking soda free choice. her stool been sent to vet. negative. a handful of grain mixed grass hay. why is her stool so runny? fresh water also.
Hi. Why not try chamomile to give to your goat. Chamomile normally settles a problem stomach...
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Buck or doe determines sex of the kids.
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Don’t play with young males They can really hurt you when you’re not looking and you could break bones and cuts There not pets if they have horns