Goat Housing (Shed) Guide

Goat shed or housing plays important role in any successful commercial goat farming. Based on number of goats, you should plan for goat housing. If you want to start with low numbers of goat and wants to invest less initially, there is an option for going to construct a simple goat shed. For commercial goat farming business, one must know how to build goat housing. Goat shed is required for security to protect goats from unwanted predators (such as wild dogs, wolfs and snakes), unpredictable weather conditions and to provide shelter in night times. After planning on number of goats to be raised, you can get an idea on shed dimensions or size which can have both covered area and open area. Cost of goat shed construction depends on many factors like number of goats, space allocated for feed storage, and type of rearing like zero grazing (stall feeding) or open field grazing (where they require only night shelter). In the following write-up, let us talk about goat housing.
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Goat Farming Business Plan

For any successful commercial goat farming, proper business plan is required before starting the goat farm. This business plan may include right from land selection to marketing of goats. However, goat farmers should have complete knowledge before going to large scale commercial goat farming. The following write up details about important milestones in goat farming business plan implemented in stall-fed goat system. You can assume the same for dairy goat farming, meat goat farming or wool goat farming.

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Goat Vaccination Schedule

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Goat Diseases Information Guide

For successful goat farming, one should be aware of common diseases of goats and their control methods. In many cases, intensive goat farming leads to spread many diseases which ultimately results in increased mortality. If goat farmers are not aware of common goat diseases and their prevention, there may be a chance of getting losses in goat farming business. Hence, it's very important to identify the symptoms and apply preventive care. Let us discuss about such common diseases and their control measures in commercial goat farming business. Read more : HERE. 

Toggenburg Goat Breed Information

This goat breed is famous for milk production and one of the very popular dairy goats originated in the Toggenburg Valley in north-east Switzerland. These goats are credited as being the oldest known dairy goat breeds in the region. This goat breed performs best in cooler conditions. These goats have known for their excellent udder development and high milk production. Toggenburg breed is distributed throughout the world. Other names of this goat include; Toggenburger Ziege, Chèvre du Toggenbourg and Capra del Toggenburgo. Goat farmers can consider Toggenburg breed for commercial dairy production due to their high production of milk. However, this breed can also be reared and raised for meat purpose.Read more: HERE.

Kiko Goat Breed Information Guide

The "Kiko" is a breed of meat goat from New Zealand where Kiko is a Maori word which means a "flesh" or "meat". It is the breed created by cross-breeding New Zealand local goats with Anglo-Nubian, Toggenburg and Saanen breeds. The best part of these goats is "fast growth", hardiness to survive in many climatic conditions and high feed conversion ratio (FCR). There is an association called "The American Kiko Goat Association" (AKGA) with this breed name. Let us discuss more about these goat performance and characteristics in this write-up. The scientific name of Kiko goat is “Capra aegagrus hircus”. Read more : Here.