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LATEST NEWS - July 2018 publication of "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers" cramming 40 years of practical, academic, and industry experience into 50 sections covering all aspects of breeding, feeding, husbandry and management for meat and fibre production, weed and pasture control, and clover enhancement.
This is all about commercially farming pastoral goats, especially for farmers new to goats. Hill country farmers will be especially interested.
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# goats graze pasture from the top down, and below 10cm high, intake starts to reduce below requirements,
so keep this in mind as the kidding approaches and feed demand increases. Maybe delay kidding next time?
This is all about commercially farming pastoral goats, especially for farmers new to goats. Hill country farmers will be especially interested.
GET YOUR COPY FROM: COPYPRESS at www.copypress.co.nz - link to BOOKSHOP and enter book title
JOIN THE GOGOATS GROUP AT https:/www.kiva.org TO KEEP HELPING POOR PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WITH THEIR GOATS
This is a revolving credit funder making loans that can be re-lent when repaid. Your generosity keeps on giving!
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# goats graze pasture from the top down, and below 10cm high, intake starts to reduce below requirements,
so keep this in mind as the kidding approaches and feed demand increases. Maybe delay kidding next time?
# if you are going to use goats to have any effect on weeds - be it management, control or destruction, you first need to know about the weed species. Why it grows, how, when, and where, and then you can plot a goat strategy.
Then you need to know about how goats eat different weeds
Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".
# have you checked out goat prices in North America lately? Like USD2.50 per lb live at auction. Wondered why New Zealand farmers are not paid more? And done something about it? Like talking to your processor? Or other goat farmers? OR CAPRINEX?
Then you need to know about how goats eat different weeds
Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".
# have you checked out goat prices in North America lately? Like USD2.50 per lb live at auction. Wondered why New Zealand farmers are not paid more? And done something about it? Like talking to your processor? Or other goat farmers? OR CAPRINEX?
# ill-informed negative comment recently about goat foot troubles. There is no doubt that some goats are more susceptible to footrot and scald than others. Boer goats have proved best suited to drier soil conditions. Intensively farmed dairy goats and angoras with regular monitoring and foot trimming have created bad reputations. Commercially farmed KIKO and KIKONUI pastoral goats have been selectively bred for 30+years to successfully overcome problems.
# it can be hard to get your head around the different feeding behaviour of goats compared to other stock that you are used to. Goats eat what they see, from the top down. Pasture intake starts to decrease from optimim 10cms height- about 2500kg DM per ha June to October and 3000kg DM per ha November to May. But it is height not volume that is critical. Of course they may be supplementing intake from non-pasture sources.
Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".
# goats can precondition post-weaning lamb feeding pasture. Use 200kg goat liveweight per ha to skim graze/top
grasses, followed by a 2 week spell before lambs. White clover leaf has about MJME 11.8 per kg DM compared with older grass at 9.5. Lambs grow at 270gpd at 11MJ and 65gpd at 9MJ. Goat pregrazing will increase clover content.
# pastoral goats can have a vital role in controlling weeds, specificlly enhancing clover, grooming pastures, and producing meat. However successful pastoral goat farmers use their goats for only one objective as more than one ends up with less success. And meat can be an end product of all of them. Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".
# a common misconception is that goats are hard to control - because they can be more intelligent than you. You can use that intelligence to train them to avoid electric fences for maintained cheap, effective and total control. Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".
# it can be hard to get your head around the different feeding behaviour of goats compared to other stock that you are used to. Goats eat what they see, from the top down. Pasture intake starts to decrease from optimim 10cms height- about 2500kg DM per ha June to October and 3000kg DM per ha November to May. But it is height not volume that is critical. Of course they may be supplementing intake from non-pasture sources.
Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".
# goats can precondition post-weaning lamb feeding pasture. Use 200kg goat liveweight per ha to skim graze/top
grasses, followed by a 2 week spell before lambs. White clover leaf has about MJME 11.8 per kg DM compared with older grass at 9.5. Lambs grow at 270gpd at 11MJ and 65gpd at 9MJ. Goat pregrazing will increase clover content.
# pastoral goats can have a vital role in controlling weeds, specificlly enhancing clover, grooming pastures, and producing meat. However successful pastoral goat farmers use their goats for only one objective as more than one ends up with less success. And meat can be an end product of all of them. Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".
# a common misconception is that goats are hard to control - because they can be more intelligent than you. You can use that intelligence to train them to avoid electric fences for maintained cheap, effective and total control. Read about that in "Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers".