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Unless your goats are just pets or brush eaters, you probably want to breed them. If you have dairy goats, you need to breed them to keep a good supply of milk flowing. And you will need to replace any goats you sell or slaughter.

As a dairy goat owner, I supplement my income from selling milk by selling kids and providing buck service. Buck service means leasing a buck for breeding purposes to another goat owner. Buck service is valuable to goat owners who don’t have the space or don’t want the hassle of keeping a buck or who want to get certain genetics into their herd. I tell you more about buck service, and about breeding in general, in Chapter 12.