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All About Goats Hethrington Whittet Hb 179pp

The ideal introduction to keeping goats. It covers housing, feeding and breeding goats, rearing young, milking, dairy produce, by-products and showing. This newly revised third edition includes a comprehensive veterinary section by John G. a veterinary surgeon with specialist knowledge of goats.                                                   

Breeds of Goats: British Goat Society Pb 32pp                                                  

Diseases of the Goat Matthews Blackwell Pb 364pp
A thoroughly revised edition to include latest treatment techniques for goat diseases. Each chapter starts with the initial assessment and clinical examination of the patient, together with further investigations that may aid diagnosis. This book aims to provide those involved in caprine medicine with a ready accessible reference on goats, whatever their professional involvement with the species.                                                   

Goats for Beginners Franklin Gold Cockerel Pb 88pp

Written with beginners specifically in mind, this book discusses a whole range of issues including breeds, diseases, dairying, showing and much more. Maggi Franklin is a well known show judge and has bred champion goats herself for more than 30 years. 

                                                  

Goat Farming : Mowlem. FP Hb 200pp   

This book is a complete guide to commercial goat farming, dealing with all aspects of the business and based on scientific principles, combined with practical working experience with a large herd of goats.                                                              

Goats of the World: Porter. FP Hb372pp

Val Porter has produced a well written and carefully researched book on the 500 breeds and types of goat which can be found around the world. The entries are arranged by country of origin and include the main breed characteristics.  Dairy goats of Europe and the specialist meat breeds of South Africa are just some of the types included.  Illustrated.                                                          

This title in Crowood's popular Guide to Management series is aimed at small-scale operators and hobbyists, and is designed to cater for the needs of those who have only limited resources, in terms of time, money and land. Covering all aspects of goat husbandry, and written in such a way that it is accessible to the novice goat keeper, the author discusses choice of animals, day-to-day management, accidents and diseases, breeding and caring for the young, and showing. Whether the intention is to keep goats for milk, hair or other products, all the necessary basic information will be found in this book.

Practical Goat keeping Mowlem Crowood Hb160pp       Goats are inquisitive, active animals with individual characters

There are well over 200 identifiable breeds of goat in the world with some thirteen in the UK as well as many cross-breeds. Distinctive cheese and yoghurt, prime lean meat and highly prized cashmere and mohair fibre are all products of this unique species.

In this well-illustrated manual the author provides essential information for successful goat keeping. Hilary Matthews has written the chapter on showing which will give the reader an insight into the world of the show ring.

Subjects covered include: characteristics and breeds; breeding and reproduction; kid rearing; milk production and dairy work; goat fibre and production; health and disease; showing and finally, profitable goat keeping.

Pygmy Goats: Thompson. SPL Pb 40pp                                                                 

Extensively revised and updated with more than 100 new pages added, Raising Dairy Goats includes information on selection, housing, space requirements, breeding and birthing techniques, feeding, behavior, and health concerns and remedies for illnesses.

Raising Meat Goats Sayer Storey Pb 344pp

This comprehensive manual is the small-farm guide to profitable meat goat production. Easy to handle and easy to raise, this hearty stock is increasing in demand as North America’s immigrant population and taste for the exotic increases

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