The Meat Goat Handbook: Raising Goats for Food, Profit, and Fun

by Yvonne Zweede-Tucker

Longtime goat rancher Yvonne Zweede-Tucker draws on twenty years of hands-on experience to help you raise your own meat goats. Illustrated throughout with color photography, this instructive handbook includes advice about breeds, feeding, housing, safety, health, kidding, butchering, and selling product. Included is a glossary and a resources appendix. Essential reading for every meat goat owner!

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 2012

Reviews

[Rosalynde · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've not yet read this book cover to cover, but this book seems comprehensive--Zweede-Tucker includes information on milk and fiber goat breeds, guardian dogs and heritage breeding/conservation. She urges the reader to be clear on his or her intentions when embarking on raising meat goats. She explains in detail the goat's digestive process and includes many pictures of a doe giving birth. Great section on halal "harvesting" will put many newbies at ease.

[Natasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a lot of good information in it about raising goats and the pictures were fun to look at and made the book more fun to read!