| Goats: Small-scale Herding for Pleasure And Profit (Hobby Farms Series) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 20468
Category: Book
Author: Sue Weaver
Publisher: BowTie Press
Studio: BowTie Press
Manufacturer: BowTie Press
Label: BowTie Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 193199367X
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.39
EAN: 9781931993678
ASIN: 193199367X
Publication Date: June 30, 2006
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Hobby Farm series presents Goats Jump from the bandwagon to the farm with one of the hottest-growing food sources in the country. Goats is an in-depth guide to small-scale goat keeping?for pleasure and profit! The author delivers essential information on choosing, breeding, and tending goats while also herding together some fascinating and fun facts about them. Comprehensive discussions, full-color photos, and easy-to-use charts will help to ensure the success of your goat-keeping ventures. From cashmere to milk and meat! Select the right breed for your farm Learn common goat herd behavior Keep goats healthy with a nutritious diet Spot symptoms of common goat disease Breed, deliver, and care for does and bucks Market and sell fresh goat milk Explore goat resources and Web sites Plus many other helpful tips! About the Hobby Farms? series Whether you?re a weekend gardener or dedicated small farmer, you?ll gather a bushel of essential information from the Hobby Farms series. Hobby Farm and its companion editions will help both experienced and novice hobby farmers realize their own dreams of life on the farm?for pleasure or profit. Look for other essential Hobby Farms titles, such as Hobby Farm? Cattle, Chickens, Sheep, and many more to come!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Great read wish more detail September 30, 2008
I thought this book was an easy read; I just wish it was more detailed in nature.
 great reference book August 31, 2008
great reference book. I am a "novice" goat person. I have seven young goats and the book has been very helpful in becoming more proficient in caring for my goats.
Get it before you get goats April 4, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Nay. Nay. Not a single person interested in living with goats should miss this book aptly titled, Goats. In the work, Sue Weaver covers the basic, yet crucial, elements involved in raising goats as pets or as a business venture. She clearly loves the little ruminants, and as a consequence she methodically cautions the newcomer from rushing into the wonderful world of goats.
Topics covered in the book include food, shelter, breeding, health care and how to go about finding the right species of goat for your purposes and personality. Weaver gives a nice overview of the four major marketable uses of goats, including a very interesting look at ethnic and cultural preferences of goat meat for select holidays and special occasions.
The vignettes from the farm that are included in the book tie the text to day-to-day reality. The best of all comes at the back of the book. Here, Weaver lists numerous resources, provides a glossary of goat jargon and presents a fantastic summary of common diseases that plague goats. These appendices are reason enough to purchase Goats and make it a hands-on keeper.
Goat city March 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very helpful for a beginner or newbe to the art and pleasure of keeping goats. It will not be as helpful if you are looking to use goats as a business for that you will have to look else where otherwise I highly recommand it.
 Mixed review. very basic info, more for entertainment. January 14, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a novice to goats and this book failed to give me the info I needed.
The reading was easy and had good story lines.
I had to buy Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle to get a real grasp of the information i needed (That book is #1 for a beginner).
"Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle" is a great book, and a must for the beginner.
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