Profitable Goat-Keeping - Anon - Bog

Goat farming refers to the breeding and raising of domestic goats normally for their meat, milk, fibre and skin. This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the subject, offering the reader expert tips and invaluable instructions one everything from selection and breeding to feeding, housing, maintaining, common problems and ailments, and much more. "Profitable Goat-Keeping" is perfect for those with an interest in keeping goats for pleasure of for profit, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "The Poor Man's Cow", "How to Make a Start", "The Value of Goat's Milk", "Breeds and Varieties", "The Goat-House and its Fittings", "The Breeding Stock", "Rearing Kids", "Food and Feeding", "Preparing Goats for Sale and Show", "Selecting Milch Goats", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on goat farming.