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How
To Buy A Pygmy Goat
Questions you
should ask
Helpful
Hints
Excerpts from Helpful
Hints For Your Herd,
a booklet for new
members of the North
Carolina Pygmy Goat
Club.
Rabies
Article
An article by
Laurie Getzendanner,
this is a must read
for any animal
lover.
Treasure
Hunting: How
to Find A Vet
Your herd needs a
vet, here's how to
find one
Hay
FAQ
All you ever wanted
to know about hay,
the most important
part of any goat's
diet.
Maggidan's
Medicine Chest
A well
stocked medicine
chest makes goat
keeping much easier.
Hypocalcemia,
The Link Between
Calcium and
Phosphorus in the
Diet
An article by
Sue Reith, this has
a recipe for
homemade CMPK a
Pregnancy
Toxemia/Milk Fever
remedy
A
Whole New Kind of
Show Goat
Our goats
were the stars at a
Southern Ideal Home
Show.
Goats
On the Road
Traveling tips
for goats and goat
shows.
Show
Checklist
This is our
checklist for going
to shows.
You
Be The Judge
What is the judge
looking for?
Fetal
Development in Pygmy
Goats
Fetuses do most
of their growing the
last 4 weeks of
gestation.
This article is by
Maxine Kinne, former
NPGA HER Chair.
Tube
Feeding Kids
A simple
lifesaving technique
that any goat
breeder needs to
know.
Milking
Pygmies
Three articles
about milking
pygmies by the
former NPGA HER
Chair, Maxine Kinne.
If
You Got 'Em, Milk 'Em
Really!
You should!
Maggidan's
Magnificent Milking
Minis
Singing the
praises of milking
my pygmies.
How
To Hand Milk
Even if you
don't intend to milk
your pygmies for
your own
consumption, you
need to know how to
do this! A
newborn kid's life
may depend on
it. This
is an excerpt from
the book Starting
Right With Milk
Goats by Helen
Walsh.
Milking
By Machine
How I do it.
Homemade
Goat Wipes and Teat
Dip
Great
recipes from the Fiasco
Farm Website.
Even if you don't
milk the Goat Wipes
are sure handy.
Herd
Evaluation As a
Management Tool
How Patty Putnam
used a Linear
Appraisal Evaluation
Service to improve
her herd.
Tools
of the Trade
An article
about a proposed
Linear Appraisal
Program for the NPGA.
See
our "Good
Idea!" page
for more helpful
hints for around the
farm.
Dan's Aunt Blanche
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