We want to be a little careful in discouraging others in providing their experience and learning about raising goats. After all, this blog is a means of helping others with information we feel is important to the goat industry. However, one point we like to emphasize is our lack of knowledge about medical issues involving goats. We don't want to know what other people have learned, but prefer goats that avoid so many of the problems we hear discussed by other breeders.
As an example, http://www.goatwisdom.com/ appears to offer a variety of articles about goats, diseases, illnesses, and treatments. We appreciate the willingness of the author of the web page to provide the material and commend the obvious knowledge. But we require goats that take care of themselves. Our goats don't have a fancy barn and a mid-wife to deliver their babies. They must raise their kids without our help.
Again we do not mean to knock the knowledge provided by goatwisdom and the well meaning intention to help goat breeders. We simply want to contrast the difference between raising healthy, strong, and hardy animals rather than the need to doctor, nurse, bottle feed, and baby sit livestock. There is absolutely nothing wrong with these things, we just don't have the time or the inclination to do it.
If you find yourself with a problem with your goats, goatwisdom is probably a quick source for some self-help information from people who might be able to help you with things we don't know anything about.
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