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Click here to see the schedule for the Caprine Outing 2006, our goat workshop series, scheduled for September 22-24, 2006.

 The Dairy Goat project is designed to help youth develop to their fullest potential as they learn the care and management of a dairy animal. The dairy goat is an ideal youth project animal, as it allows young people to learn about dairy production with an animal that requires much less investment than the dairy cow.

The 4-H Dairy Goat project offers all aspects of care and management, plus an understanding of the workings of a living creature. Activities include public presentations, dairy goat quiz bowl, judging, fitting and showing, and dairy product identification, milk and milk quality, making ice cream, cheese, etc.

AUDIENCE: Youth 5 to 19 years of age.

NY State 4-H Dairy Goat Fact Sheets

  1. Why do I want to own a goat?
  2. The dairy goat breeds
  3. Buying a dairy goat
  4. Parts of the dairy goat
  5. Facilities for your dairy doe?
  6. Routine health care for your dairy doe
  7. Dairy goat identification
  8. Hoof trimming
  9. Disbudding
  10. All about castrating and urinary calculi
  11. Teeth and age of the goat
  12. Feeds for goats
  13. The digestive system of the goat
  14. Vitamins and Minerals
  15. Using math to see how well your goat is growing
  16. When will my doe kid?
  17. Reproductive problems of the doe
  18. Part I: Herd behavior
  19. Part II: Mating and maternal behavior

Also, the USDA provides a goat Project Guide for 4-H leaders

PRIMARY RESOURCES:

  • YOUR GOATS: A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing Goats (by Gail Damerow, A Gardenway Publishing Book available through Storey Communications, Inc., Schoolhouse Road, Pownal, Vermont 05261) [Highly Recommended, extremely up-to-date, user-friendly and accurate]
  • 4-H DAIRY GOAT RECORDS AND LEADER GUIDE
  • 4-H DAIRY PRODUCTS IDENTIFICATION - Leader's Guide and Fact Sheets I, II, III, IV
  • 4-H DAIRY GOAT FACT SHEETS
  • YEAR-ROUND 4-H GOAT PROJECT

Available: 250 Morrison Hall, CU, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801

SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES:

  • Goats and Their Management - (Agriculture Canada Publication #1820/E)

Slide sets:

  • DAIRY GOAT MANAGEMENT (NEW HAMPSHIRE)
  • DAIRY GOAT MANAGEMENT (CALIFORNIA)
  • PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS
  • CHEESE IDENTIFICATION
  • REPRODUCTIVE MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY GOATS
  • GOAT SLAUGHTER - BACKYARD PROCEDURE

Videotapes:

  • LIFE ON A DAIRY GOAT FARM
  • FACILITIES
  • PREKIDDING MANAGEMENT/KIDDING MANAGEMENT
  • CARE OF KIDS: BIRTH TO WEANING
  • MAINTAINING HERD HEALTH/MILKING MANAGEMENT
  • MARKETING/OBTAINING FINANCING
  • DAIRY GOAT CLASSIFICATION
  • INTRODUCTION TO DAIRY GOAT PRODUCTION
  • FITTING AND SHOWING DAIRY GOATS
  • DAIRY GOAT JUDGING
  • GOAT DISEASES
  • GOAT TECHNIQUES
  • IDENTIFICATION AND NUTRITIONAL PROPERTIES OF DAIRY PRODUCTS
  • PRODUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS

A New York 4-H goat project member provides information to State Fair attendees.

small 4H clover Contact
Tro Bui
tvb2@cornell.edu
Animal Science Department
250 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-4801
607-255-4505 		tatiana Stanton
tls7@cornell.edu
Animal Science Department
250 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853-4801
607-254-6025
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