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07/24/06, 01:18 PM
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If you could have only one book which would it be?
Hello, I am new to this forum. I am thinking of getting into goats after we moved to our homestead next month (I hope). I wanted to know if you could only have one book for a goat reference book what would it be? Thanks, Erin in KS. I will post more questions soon.
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07/24/06, 01:40 PM
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Goat Medicine, by Mary Smith
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07/24/06, 01:41 PM
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I'm new to goat keeping too, but after checking out every book our library has on goats (and reading most of all of them!) I'd have to say I like the "Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats" the best. I also like the Hobby Farms book (just called Goats) by Sue Weaver.
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07/24/06, 02:09 PM
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Honestly, there are just way too many good ones to limit yourself to one. Goat Medicine is a great veterinary reference. Many others are too good not to add to your hme library. You can usually find them on half.com or the used sections of Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
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07/24/06, 02:27 PM
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I would have to agree that "Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats" is a great book. I also have two others - "Raising Meat Goats For Profit", and "The New Goat Handbook". Both are good, and out of the two I would highly recommend "Raising Meat Goats For Profit". It has quite a bit of fantastic information on feeding goats. I refer to it the most.
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Owner of Barred Rocks, Buff Orpingtons, dark cornish & white rock mix, Quail, and my first two young goats (buck & doe). We sell chicks, and are willing to sell fertile eggs.
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07/24/06, 02:29 PM
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MY own. I have compiled books of notes from many different web sites. By far it out does all the above books , maybe even Dr. Smiths.
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07/24/06, 02:42 PM
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Patty, I have one of those too! But I'm a reading addict...I have over 1,000 books in my personal library. Most are vintage gardening books, but a lot on farming and llivestock.
Ruth
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07/24/06, 03:02 PM
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Caprice Acres
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I have a simple kid's book on owning goats, which is simplistic but got me through the first years. I mostly go online to places like www.fiascofarm.com and other places. I think maybe someday I'll write my own goat book, too. 
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07/24/06, 03:14 PM
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THE GOAT HANDBOOK by Jaudas and Mobini --look on ebay!
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07/24/06, 03:29 PM
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OK Vicki is better than any book you could ever buy. The old saanedoah web site was great to . I saved it to disc before it shut down.
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07/24/06, 04:36 PM
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I'm still waiting for Vicki to publish a book. I will be first in line for a copy. She always gives the best explanations of WHY you do something for goat health, not just "do this because it worked for me" or "this is what I read on a website/book" or "this is what my vet did" or "goat breeders have been doing this for years". When someone tells you WHY you are doing a particular treatment for an illness or WHY you should feed a particular food, and then explains what it is doing to restore or maintain your goat's normal metabolism, that is the kind of knowledge that stays with you.
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07/24/06, 09:15 PM
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After spending all kinds of money on the story handbooks and other I could EASILY get from my local bookstore I have to say that they are CRUD compared to "Raising GOats for milk and meat" by Rosalee Sinn. It is a heifer project international training course handbook and it really IS an all in one book, because its WRITTEN to be handed out to people who cant run to the local bokstore and waste all kinds of money on lots of books (not that I dont enjoy the luxery of all my books, but would have wasted LOTS LESS if I'd had this one first). It has EVERYTHING from HOW to milk, and handle milk, to breeding, management, all those "unpleasent" things that need to be done and how to do them, and EVEN blank info sheets, milk record sheets etc.
Its an ALL in ONE book!!!!
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07/24/06, 09:34 PM
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. This book is ALWAYS beside my bed, I refer to it first for just about everything.
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07/24/06, 09:47 PM
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I would recommend Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats by Jerry Belanger. It's probably the most complete, scientifically speaking. Carla Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living comes in second, and is very good at covering the "practical" side of things. Hope you decide to get goats. You won't regret it!
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07/26/06, 06:59 AM
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The book that I refer to most, because it seems to be the one more likely to have my answer, is Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats. Although, many (most) times it doesn't cover all of the bases. Someone still needs to write the ultimate goat reference book! I usually get my best information from http://fiascofarm.com/goats/index.htm online.
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07/26/06, 02:04 PM
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I started with Dr. Guss's book and Diseases and Managment of Dairy goats with Alice Hall (Hallcienda Nubians) and Dr. Jackson....I have probably read or own nearly all goat books, Like Ruth I am a book freak. I have old Dairy Goat Society booklets from the 30's and 40's. I am only 49 years young, so these are quite the find, they have ads in them for worming with arsenic!!!
Getting the books on the cheap or at the library is fine, you can glean something from most books, but useful after you have a few years under your belt? Nope they become covered in dust. Goat Medicine (and a new one is coming out) is the best. The apenedix in it (alot like the Companion Bible are the real highlights of the book, you can go to any large Unvierstiy library and do your own reserach from the whole study, instead of their slant of the study sited in the book.
Yes it's a shame about saanedoah.com her site was far better than any others, but for the same reason I can't write a book with real dosages real drug names, with real information, it's the same reason the books that are out there that aren't written by vets, are so benign, covering their ass from suit if someone took information you wrote that was off label and something happened to their goat. Joyce is one smart cookie. Sue Reith is another one, because she is not a vet her lifesaving information on hypocalcemia is not in any major publications because she ruffles the status quo. they don't want to loose ads.
Patty and gryndlygoat, that was sweet! But even in doing what I do, you make enemys, some folks don't like to be not agreed with. I don't write stuff someone else has said about this or that, if it didn't happen here I tell you. It's worse when I am really busy because my answers then become short and to the point, which then turns me into this know it all I have my mentors also, Joyce (the copper guru), Sue Reith (she saved the live of one of my best does, she knows more about metobolic disease than anyone I know), Tim Pruitt (Mr. Nubian, he has had goats since he was a young man), it's who I call when I need a brain to pick. Vicki
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A 3 decade dairy goat farm homestead that is now a retail/wholesale soap company and construction business.
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