The Meat Goat Handbook
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re you hearing a lot about meat goats lately? Do you wish that you had someone to ask what all the “buzz” was about, someone you could trust to tell you the truth? Someone that would help you decide what you needed for your operation and how meat goats could be hardworking, moneymaking employees for you? How to keep the goats where you wanted them to be instead of running around the county?
Someone who could tell you what makes a good meat goat, what goats need (and want!) to eat, when and how they should give birth to “kids” (babies) and how to sell what the goats produce in the easiest and most profitable way? Now there is a book that can help you answer those questions, plus tell you why the demand for goat meat is going up faster than producers can raise it, and how you can get productive goats without spending more than you should.
The author of the recently published Meat Goat Handbook is a Montana meat goat producer with 20-plus years of experience, who has learned how to be profitable by necessity and enjoys sharing goat facts and fun with others. The book gives readers the Continued on page 37 www.farmranchdairy.com
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