• Information for New Owners

  • Grant opportunities for goat/sheep owners
  • Is your farm ready for a grant?
  • Official scrapie ID for goats
  • How to start a goat dairy
  • So you want to do meat goats
  • Starting a meat goat operation

• Meat Goat Management

  • Creep feeding
  • Out-of-season Breeding
  • Flushing
  • Income and Expenses
  • Dewormer Resistance #1Dewormer Resistance #2
  • Keeping Feed Costs Down

• Goat Facilities

  • Ventilation & lighting in goat barns
  • Natural barn ventilation

• Goat Genetics & Reproduction

  • Selective breeding for performance traits in goats
  • Goat semen collection & processing

• Goat Health

  • Buying goats and sheep
  • Caprine Arthritis Encephalytis
  • Controlling and eradicating foot rot/scald
  • Emergency first aid
  • Johnes disease
  • Meat goat herd management
  • Monitoring your herd
  • Preparing for the breeding season
  • Taking vital signs
  • Vaccinating goats

  • Kid care

    • Floppy Kid Syndrome
    • Handling kidding season
    • Kidding Season Mentoring Handbook
    • Saving weak kids

  • Parasites

    • Taking and analyzing fecal samples
    • Management to reduce worms
    • Managing barber pole worm in the Southern US
    • Goat Parasites:management and control
    • Anthelmintic Resistance of Gastrointestinal Parasites

• Products

  • Benefits of goat milk and meat
  • Cheesemaking simplified
  • Feta Cheese
  • Queso blanco
  • Recipes for goat meat and cheese

• Marketing Products

  • Breaking down a carcass
  • Cull doe – breakdown into marketable cuts
  • Breeding to target holidays
  • Calendar of holidays and type of goat wanted
  • Factors affecting dressing percentage
  • Goat meat industry – overview
  • Industry status 2006
  • Marketing at auctions
  • Marketing to brokers, dealers, packers and retailers
  • Marketing on-farm
  • Marketing to restaurants
  • NYC Goat marketing field trip
    

    Marketing Spreadsheets (- replace sample figures with your own)

    • Calculating returns from auctions
    • Calculating returns from broker or co-op
    • Calculating returns from dealers and wholesalers
    • Calculating returns from retail sales

• Evaluating Goats & Carcasses

  • Breed effects on carcass and retail cuts
  • ESMGPA meat goat standards
  • Evaluating Easter kids- sucklings
  • Evaluating market kids – weanlings
  • NE grades for slaughter goats/lambs
  • Dairy goat linear appraisal
  • Health check chart
  • Conformation soundness chart

• Genetics & Reproduction

  • Selective breeding for performance traits in goats
  • Goat semen collection & processing

• Nutrition

  • Feeding the goat and her rumen
  • Feeding pregnant goats
  • Goat nutritional diseases
  • Intro to ration formulating
  • 1992 Nutrient requirements for goats
  • How to use the Langston goat nutrition calculator
  • Sample rations for kids
  • Sample rations for lactating does

• Managing Goats on Browse, Pasture and Woods

  • Goats in the Woods Handbook
  • Raising kids on browse and concentrate
  • Training goats to electric fence

Prepared By:

Dr. tatiana Stanton
Goat Extension Associate
114 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Email: tls7@cornell.edu