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Tails from the Trails: A Hike and a Hunt
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 11 minutes It’s early afternoon when we pull into the trailhead, my old Ford pickup lurching to a stop as I shut off the ignition and silence the clattering diesel...
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From This Side of the Ring: Finding Success in the Showring
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes Hello readers. It seems the end of an era has come as Goat Journal won’t continue in the New Year. I’d thought about what last words of advice I had for you,...
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Goats
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes With more goats in the U.S. being raised as pets or in small herds, rather than as production animals, they’re living longer, and their owners are more likely...
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Goat Pregnancy Health and Nutrition
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes With a relatively brief 150-day average gestation, the months of goat pregnancy can fly by for breeders. Pregnant animals need consistent attention and good...
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Humane Certification for Goat Ranchers: Is It Attainable?
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes The word “humane” carries weight with consumers, but without certification, it can be misleading. Goat ranchers face unique challenges in meeting humane...
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“If only” – An Experience with Ringwomb
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes On March 19, 2023, my San Clemente Island goat doe, Sunflower, began to show signs of labor. She was a couple days earlier than expected, but within a...
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Goat Horns Throughout History
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes Even before domestication, goats and their horns played an important role in human life. From tools for daily work to signaling ceremonies and battles to...
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Witnessing an En Caul Birth
Add to Favorites En caul refers to the birth of a fetus entirely encased in an unruptured amniotic sac. It’s not an emergency, it’s normal in animals. In that moment, we’re given a rare glimpse of the...
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How to Tote Your Goat: Transporting Goats
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes Goats are a common choice for many small homesteads in the United States, and as a source of meat and milk around the world. There are many reasons for this,...
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Reader Response: Disbudding – Yea or Nay?
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 8 minutes Disbudding is often a contentious topic among goat keepers. We reached out and asked: Do you disbud your goats? Why or why not? We had over 300 responses...
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Life With Goats: Thank Goodness for Calm Genetics
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 2 minutes I love calm genetics. One day, I arrived home from work, grabbed the milk buckets, and headed to the barn, as usual. Greeted the goats as I came through the...
View ArticleReader Letters September/October 2025
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you have a question or a comment about your goats, their feed, housing, or an article you’ve read here? Feel free to email us at goatjournal@gmail.com I’m...
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Herding: Leash Training Goats and Other Hands-On Techniques
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes In Parts 1 and 2, we covered hands-free herding techniques using positional strategies and structural tools to guide goat movement effectively. Yet, there are...
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Responding to Traumatic Goat Injuries
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 6 minutes Goat injuries happen no matter how careful you are. learn how to prepare for the treatment of different injuries that goats can end up with. You can never be...
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Caprine Crops: Beet Pulp for Goats and Other Alternative Feed
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 6 minutes Facing high feed bills? Look to the past to help with the future and explore other options, such as beet pulp for goats, sweet potato vines, and tree hay, to...
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Artificial Insemination of Goats
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes Artificial insemination in goats can aid in conserving endangered breeds, but it comes with complications and uncertain outcomes. Artificial insemination (AI)...
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Are Alpine Ibex Goats Becoming Night Owls?
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 4 minutes As a group, the Caprinae subfamily, to which both goats and sheep belong, has been documented in the fossil record dating back 15 to 18 million years. Both...
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Hunting With Goats – the Underdogs of the Backcountry
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 5 minutes Hunting with goats makes it easier to get deeper into the backcountry and allows access for those with injuries or who find age makes it more difficult....
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Reproductive Success Starts with Good Nutrition
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 2 minutes Good nutrition is absolutely critical if you’re breeding goats. During late gestation, when most fetal growth occurs, nutrient demands rise sharply. Failure to...
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Protein for Goats is Essential
Add to Favorites Reading Time: 3 minutes Many seasons during a goat’s life require some additional protein in its diet. Protein for goats is essential, and many goat may need extra in their diets...
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