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1 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: The parts of a goat’s body.FIGURE 2-2: The parts of a goat’s digestive system.FIGURE 2-3: You can tell a goat’s age by his teeth.

2 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: An Alpine goat.FIGURE 3-2: A LaMancha goat with gopher ears.FIGURE 3-3: A Nubian goat.FIGURE 3-4: Nigerian Dwarf goat.FIGURE 3-5: An agouti Pygmy goat.FIGURE 3-6: A South African Boer buck.FIGURE 3-7: A long-haired Spanish goat, also considered Cashmere.FIGURE 3-8: An Angora buck.

3 Chapter 4FIGURE 4-1: A tree goat-proofed with a wooden enclosure.FIGURE 4-2: A milk stand.

4 Chapter 5FIGURE 5-1: A corner sleeping shelf is easy to build.FIGURE 5-2: Sleeping shelf frame assembly.FIGURE 5-3: Old roofing material and pallets can become an outdoor shelter for ...

5 Chapter 6FIGURE 6-1: A simple homemade hay feeder.FIGURE 6-2: You can build a simple mineral block holder.FIGURE 6-3: A fodder system.

6 Chapter 8FIGURE 8-1: A pack goat can carry up to 20 percent of its body weight in a pann...FIGURE 8-2: Put your goat to work by teaching him to pull a cart.

7 Chapter 9FIGURE 9-1: You can buy hoof trimmers from a livestock supply store.FIGURE 9-2: Bend the leg before you begin clipping a hoof.FIGURE 9-3: You can sit behind the goat to trim back hooves.FIGURE 9-4: First trim off any growth on the front walls of the hoofFIGURE 9-5: Trim the heel a little at a time so it is even with the sole.FIGURE 9-6: A goat stands on a properly trimmed hoof at about a 45-degree angle...FIGURE 9-7: A disbudding iron burns the horn bud, causing it to eventually fall...FIGURE 9-8: Kid ready for disbudding in a kid holding box.FIGURE 9-9: Hold the kid’s head still while you apply the disbudding iron.FIGURE 9-10: When you are finished disbudding, you see a copper-colored ring.FIGURE 9-11: Horns that regrow after disbudding are called scurs.FIGURE 9-12: An elastrator is the most common tool for castrating.FIGURE 9-13: You use the Burdizzo to castrate a goat by crushing the spermatic ...

8 Chapter 10FIGURE 10-1: Injection sites.FIGURE 10-2: Feeling the vein and inserting the needle.

9 Chapter 11FIGURE 11-1: The head of a biting louse (left) is smaller than that of a suckin...

10 Chapter 12FIGURE 12-1: Check the ligaments on a goat to tell whether she is going to kid.

11 Chapter 13FIGURE 13-1: A doe may lie down to deliver her kid.FIGURE 13-2: In a normal birth presentation, the goat is positioned head first,...FIGURE 13-3: The kid’s back feet are positioned first in a breech birth present...FIGURE 13-4: Keep a kid’s head up when you tube-feed it.

12 Chapter 15FIGURE 15-1: Wrap your thumb and forefinger around the teat to trap the milk an...FIGURE 15-2: A Simple Pulse machine works well if you don’t have a large number...

13 Chapter 17FIGURE 17-1: Setting up a goat.

14 Chapter 18FIGURE 18-1: Shearing a goat.