How To Play Cupid for Your Goats: Everything you need to know about successful goat romance and breeding

By Leigh Tate

Previously published as How To Make a Buck Rag, How To Play Cupid for Your Goats has been updated, expanded, and reorganized. Covers everything you need to know about preparing your goats for breeding, the role of minerals in goat reproduction, detecting heat and rut, what to do about "silent heats," how to manage the breeding event, how to determine pregnancy, and calculating kidding dates.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Tate
• Release date: Oct 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311241863

Leigh Tate

Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.

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The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos

from 5 Acres & A Dream

How To Play Cupid for Your Goats

Everything you need to know about

successful goat romance and breeding.

by Leigh Tate

Kikobian Books

www.kikobian.com

Text & photos © 2014-2021 by Leigh Tate.

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Originally published October 30, 2014 as How To Make a Buck Rag.

Revised and republished May 5, 2021 as How To Play Cupid for Your Goats.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

The Birds, The Bees, and Goats

How To Prepare Your Goats for Breeding

How To Know When a Doe Is In Heat

How To Know When a Buck Is In Rut

How To Make a Buck Rag

How To Use a Buck Rag

Managing The Deed

How To Determine Pregnancy

How To Calculate Kidding Dates

What's Next?

Special Thanks

Glossary

Resources

Bibliography

About The Author

Preface

When I published 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead, I described it as neither a how-to nor a why-to book. Although it contains quite a