Product Description

Experienced homesteader Gail Luttmann covers goat selection, feeding, pasture, breeding and reproduction, milk and cheese - everything you need to know.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83076 in Books
• Published on: 1986-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780913589243
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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About the Author
Luttman

Customer Reviews

From the backcover.
Gail Luttmann. experienced writer as well as expert in the field of milk goats, has written "the" book on this popular subject.

Selecting milk goats

Economic considerations

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 milf 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.

Gail Luttmann lives on a small farm in Tennessee. She is a frequent contributor to farm and garden magazines. She is the author of two other small-scale livestock raising books.

Raising Milk Goats Successfully
I ordered 3 different books about raising goats and this one was the best.. It covers everything. Nothing left out. It is easy to read and well organized. The other books were poorly written and did not cover all subjects. This is the only book you need.

An excellent book that I had to own.........
We have been around goats for decades, but have only recently in the past year gone the next step and begun to own Nubian goats for milk, cheese and brush removal purposes. And this is a great book if you are just getting started because it covered everything one needs to know before and after getting a goat or goats.

From housing, dairy goat rations, nutritional needs, goat management, choosing dams and sires (females and males), breeding and kidding (birthing), kid care, goat milk, udder care, health care, trouble shooting, and the overall benefits of keeping goats. And a section for those who want to have goats as a business i.e. milk, cheese, meat. And there is a good section on where to buy goats and supplies.

We live in the Sierras where we are encouraged to own goats for fire protection, since they are great at keeping brush clearer in high fire areas. And they are such wonderful animals to own and easily become members of the family.