Your Goats: A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing

A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing

by Gail Damerow

Suitable for farm work, as pets, and a source of fiber, goats are amazingly versatile animals. This informative and encouraging guide, designed for kids ages 9 and up, explains everything children need to know to safely and successfully raise and show their own goats. In age-appropriate language, Gail Damerow offers expert advice on selecting, purchasing, housing, and feeding goats, as well as important information on goat behavior and the basics of goat health care. Discover how fun and rewarding keeping goats can be. 

Genres: Reference, Animals, Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 1993

About the author

Gail Damerow and her husband operate a family farm in Tennessee where they keep poultry and dairy goats, tend a sizable garden, and maintain a small orchard. They grow and preserve much of their own food, make their own yogurt and ice cream, and bake their own bread. Gail has written extensively on raising livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural skills. She shares her experience and knowledge as a regular contributor to Backyard Poultry and Countryside magazines, as an occasional contributor to numerous other periodicals, and as the author or contributor to more than a dozen country skills how-to books.

Reviews

[Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly informative. Would recommend if you're considering getting goats.

[LaDonna Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent information for kids and parents alike. Will purchase.

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great introduction to goats, but maybe more advanced than the kid's guide it claims to be. I am enjoying the read currently as a way to familiarize myself with the goat world, being that I have never spent much time with them. Today I set up an intership with Pug's leap goat dairy and spent some time with the most amazing saanen goats. So friendly! Now that is something to be excited about.

[Jacque · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok, so call me a freak for putting this on my read list, but i have a pregnant goat and this was an awesome guide for me!! it had words i could understand, and it's really great for us "challenged" goat people.

[Me2 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent book that answers almost all your questions about goats. It does not cover things in detail though.

[Zahra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have Nubian does and this book helped me in 4H

[Becca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good: Teaches children how to raise a goat properly
Bad: Gives child impractical dreams of being a goat farmer
But hey, I still remember how to assist a crowning goat, so...