Raising Dairy Goats: Housing & Space

Pygmy goats are not only cute and cuddly, but they also provide many valuable services. For example, they keep the vegetation on your property cut, they produce natural fertilizers that you can use for your garden and they also help to control...

Small stock means small animals, fowl, pigs sheep, goats and Pygmy versions of large stock animals like cows and horses. Taking care of a small stock farm is nearly as much work as taking care of a large stock farm since the size of the animals does not...

Mohair is a highly-prized fiber all over the world and is the fleece of the Angora goat. Angora goats originated in Asia Minor and are now raised everywhere. Easier to keep than sheep, the Angora goat can be raised with basic know-how for fun and profit.

So, today we're going to talk about culling the herd, and home butchering. Now, that might be a little disturbing to some people, but if you keep goats, invariably you're going to have too many, and usually it's the males that are butchered, when they're...

Horses need continuous attention, care and exercise. If you can't tend to your horse's daily needs yourself, you'll want to find just the right person who can.