Prepared By:
Dr. tatiana Stanton
Goat Extension Associate
114 Morrison Hall
Cornell University
Email: tls7@cornell.edu
Educational Resources:
Information for New Goat Owners
- Grant opportunities for goat/sheep owners
- Is your farm ready for a grant?
- Official scrapie ID for goats
- How to start a goat dairy
- So you want to do meat goats
- Starting a meat goat operation
Meat Goat Herd Management Practices
- Creep feeding
- Out-of-season Breeding
- Flushing
- Income and Expenses
- Dewormer Resistance #1
Dewormer Resistance #2 - Keeping Feed Costs Down
Goat Facilities
Goat Genetics & Reproduction
Goat Health
- Caprine Arthritis Encephalytis
- Emergency first aid
- Johnes disease
- Meat goat herd management
- Monitoring your herd
- Preparing for the breeding and kidding seasons
- Taking vital signs
- Vaccinating goats
Kid Care
Parasites
- Taking and analyzing fecal samples
- Management to reduce worms
- Managing barber pole worm in the Southern US
- Goat Parasites:management and control
Goat Products
- Benefits of goat milk and meat
- Breaking down a carcass
- Cheesemaking simplified
- Feta Cheese
- Queso blanco
- Recipes for goat meat and cheese
Marketing Goat Products
- Breaking down a carcass
- Cull doe - breakdown into marketable cuts
- Breeding to target holidays
- Calendar of holidays and type of goat wanted
- Factors affecting dressing percentage
- Goat meat industry - overview
- Industry status 2006
- Marketing at auctions
- Marketing to brokers, dealers, packers and retailers
- Marketing on-farm
- Marketing to restaurants
- NYC Goat marketing field trip
Goat Marketing Spreadsheets
- replace sample figures with your own
- Calculating returns from auctions
- Calculating returns from broker or co-op
- Calculating returns from dealers and wholesalers
- Calculating returns from retail sales
Evaluating Goats and Carcasses
- Breed effects on carcass and retail cuts
- ESMGPA meat goat standards
- Evaluating easter kids- sucklings
- Evaluating market kids - weanlings
- NE grades for slaughter goats/lambs
- Dairy goat linear appraisal
Genetics and Reproduction
Goat Nutrition
- Feeding the goat and her rumen
- Feeding pregnant goats
- Goat nutritional diseases
- Intro to ration formulating
- 1992 Nutrient requirements for goats
- How to use the Langston goat nutrition calculator
- Sample rations for kids
- Sample rations for lactating does
Managing goats on browse, pasture or woods