Goats
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- How do you keep your goat healthy?
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- Fresh Food and Water
- Medicated Feed to prevent coccidiosis
- Keep a clean pen -
What is a billy?
What is a wether?
What is a doe? -
Male
castrated male
Female - What do you feed?
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At each feeding: she gets
1 pound of Goat Grits
1 ounce of Mineral supplement
4 ounces of Fast Fat
Fresh/clean water every day - Daily Care
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Feed & water
Check for healthy signs
Exercise 3 times a week
Tie up 3 times a week
Clean the pen - What is the hardest thing about raising goats?
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- What breed is your goat?
- Boer cross. She has some angora in her.
- Does she get any shots?
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CD/T
CD - protects from overeating (Enterotoxemia) belly ache
T - Prevents tetnas which they can get if the get cut
- How much does your goat gain per day?
- 1/4 to 1/2 pound a day.
- What are you going to do with your goat?
- __________
- Where are the head, ears, poll, neck, dewlap, brisket, top of shoulder, back, ribs, loin, leg, stifle, fore flank, rear flank, forearm, hock, pastern, hoof, dewclaw, belly, jaw, nostil?
- picture goes here
- When was she born?
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June 24, 2002
Born and raised as a twin
billy and doe
- How old is your goat?
- _____________
- What is your favorite thing about raising goats?
- ????
- What does the Rumen do?
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Largest chamber - like a holding tank with micro-organisms (little bugs)
- How much does she weigh?
- __________ pounds
- What are the four compartments of the stomach?
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Rumen
Reticulum
Omasum
Abomasum - What other care have you done, helped with or seen?
- Dehorning, hoof trimming, giving shots, weighing, haltering, clipping, washing, deworming
- What else can you tell me about raising goats?
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Temperature
Life span
Pulse Rate
Respiration Rate
Rumination -
101.5 to 104 degrees F
8 - 10 years
70 to 80 beats per minute
12 to 20 beats per minute
1 to 1 1/2 per minute