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Dairy Goats: Milk, Kids, and a Fence They Cannot Beat
Paperback
Series: The Homestead Starter, Book 39
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Jessy Spruell
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Dairy Goats is a practical beginner-friendly guide to choosing, housing, feeding, breeding, and milking goats on a small homestead. It explains which dairy breeds fit different goals, how to build fencing that actually holds goats, and how to establish shelter and a working milk stand.
Readers learn how to feed hay, browse, grain, and goat minerals correctly; buy animals without bringing home preventable disease; manage bucks, breeding, gestation, and kidding; and build a clean twice-daily milking routine. The book also covers parasites, common health problems, drying off, lactation planning, and realistic first-year costs.
Written for beginners, this guide gives homesteaders the practical judgment to raise productive dairy goats while protecting animal health, milk quality, fencing, and the household schedule.
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