Your Goats: A Kid's Guide To Raising And Showing

A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing

by Gail Damerow

Our friendly, encouraging animal reference series for children features information on animal health and behavior, as well as selecting, housing, feeding, and showing animals. Written in mature yet understandable language, these guides are perfect for helping to teach kids 9 and older about both the joys and the responsibilities of raising rabbits, goats, sheep, horses, dogs, ponies, calves, chickens, and guinea pigs. Young readers will enjoy learning how to keep their animals happy and healthy.

Genres: Reference, Animals, Nonfiction

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...