Farming Meat Goats Breeding Production and Marketing 2nd Edition by Barbara Vincent ISBN 978-1486306572 1486306578
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ISBN 10: 1486306578
ISBN 13: 978-1486306572
Author: Barbara Vincent
Goat meat is offers many opportunities for large- and small-scale farmers who need to diversify or seek alternative enterprises. Farming Meat Goats provides producers with comprehensive and practical information on all aspects of the goat meat industry. It covers selecting and preparing a property, choosing breeding stock, breeding, health care and nutrition, drought feeding, condition scoring and marketing.
This second edition of Farming Meat Goats has been updated throughout and contains new information about the National Livestock Identification System, current regulations for ovine Johne’s disease and animal welfare during transportation, and information about marketing. It will allow farmers to produce animals to specification for targeted markets in Australia and overseas including: butchers; supermarkets; restaurants; on-farm live sales; sales to abattoirs that specialize in Halal kills; and breeding stock either as replacements or for improved herd genetics.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1
Will breeding meat goats pay?
Selecting and preparing the property
Chapter 2
Fencing and yards
Electric fencing
Non-energised mesh fencing: ring-lock and hinge-joint
Yards
Chapter 3
Choosing your breeding stock
Choosing a buck
Which breeds are best?
Acquiring your first goats
Transporting goats
Quarantine and handling of newly arrived goats
Identify and record the new stock before release
Chapter 4
Breeding season
The importance of record-keeping
KIDPLAN
Mating age
Preparation for breeding
Oestrus cycle
Natural mating
Artificial insemination
Embryo transplant
Pregnancy
Abortion
Chapter 5
Kidding management
Labour and parturition
Kidding difficulties
Immediately after birth
Mothering and mismothering
Feeding
Diarrhoea
Predators
Herd guardians
Chapter 6
Tagging, marking, vaccinating, weaning and foot-trimming
Tagging
Marking
Vaccinating
Weaning
Foot-trimming
Chapter 7
Nutrition
Digestive system
Kid nutrition and growth rates
Nutrition for older goats
Using goats for weed control
Chapter 8
Drought feeding and strategies
Forward planning
Destocking and agistment
Breeding issues
Alternative feed
After the drought
Chapter 9
Health
Nutritional and metabolic diseases
Clostridial diseases
Other infectious diseases
Other diseases and conditions
Chapter 10
Parasites
Intestinal parasites
Control measures: faecal egg counts and drenching
External parasites
Chapter 11
Poisoning
Plant poisoning
Urea poisoning
Chapter 12
Marketing
Body condition scoring
Markets and market requirements
Preparing goats for market
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