Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChoosing a Goat Breed for Your Farm
Episode 58
It can be so challenging to choose a breed of goat to raise. But you should not choose your goats like you choose pets, which is often based on appea…
4 years, 7 months ago
Iodine Deficiency in Goats
Episode 57
As I've received more messages from people with kids born hairless or with goiters, I've become more interested in the topic of iodine and goats beca…
4 years, 8 months ago
Q-Fever and Coxiellosis
Episode 56
Coxiella burnetii is the bacteria that causes coxiellosis in goats and Q-fever in humans, and although it is not super common, all goat owners need t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Goats in a Hand-Harvested Food Year
Episode 55
Have you ever wanted to produce 100% of your food? Well, that's exactly what Alexia Allen and her husband Daniel Kirchhof did in 2017. In this episod…
4 years, 9 months ago
Nutritional Wisdom of Goats
Episode 54
Although everyone pretty much agrees that goats do a good job of consuming just the right amount of loose minerals when they are available free choic…
4 years, 10 months ago
Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Nigerian Dwarf Goats
Episode 53
After writing about our experience when one of our does had squamous cell carcinoma, I've been contacted by quite a few other goat owners who have ha…
4 years, 10 months ago
Microchipping Goats
Episode 52
Someone emailed me after her first experience tattooing goats and said, "There has to be a better way to identify goats. What can you tell me about m…
4 years, 11 months ago
Zinc for Goats
Episode 51
Zinc deficiency is often suspected when a goat is losing hair, but there are other reasons for hair loss, and that is not the only symptom of zinc de…
4 years, 11 months ago
Sheep vs. Goats
Episode 50
Some people talk about sheep and goats as if they are practically the same species, but nothing could be further from the truth. I've been breeding a…
5 years ago
Showing Goats
Episode 49
When my daughters were teenagers, they loved showing our goats. It was a great way for us to learn about goat conformation and to see how our goats c…
5 years ago