Raising Milk Goats Successfully

by Gail Luttmann, Roger Griffith (Editor)

Gail Luttman, experienced writer as well as expert in the field of milk goats, has written the book on this popular subject. Selecting milk goats. Economic consideration. Feeding: pasture, forage, grains. Housing & equipment. Milk & cheese. Breeding & reproduction. Caring for kids: newborn to weaning. Health care: diagnosis by symptoms. The dairy goat business.

All of the information is up-to-date, much of it hard to find. Luttmann particularly excels in her chapters on feeding, on the dairy goat business where she discusses marketing milk products as well as market development, and in her outstanding chapter on health care including a diagnostic discussion of symptoms rather than diseases. Extremely helpful!

Genres: Animals, Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1986

Reviews

[Abigail Rasmussen]

Years before we ever bought our first pair of goats, I was interested in getting goats, so I checked this book out from the library and read it cover to cover. Later, when we did get goats in 2006, we bought this book and I read it again.

Written by the same author as our favorite "chicken how-to book" this book is full of goat info: feeding babies, housing and shelter, dealing with ailments and diseases, milking and processing milk, plus many other topics relative to goats.

[Maria]

You know they really uh... downplayed all the incest, noise, incest, smell, incest, eating capacity and incest goats display.

They are cute as buttons, no lie there, but don't be cute and get a "boy" and a "girl"... You know, don't get a "mother" and "son" either, that makes it so much worse somehow. Stick with does.

[Sonja]

The only downfall is the expection that I would actually go milk them now. Needless to say, we keep this particular book stored on JARED'S side of the bed...

[Kathy]

Tips and techniques for all aspects of dairy goat care.