Goat Handbook on CD

Information and Training for Turning Livestock into Land Management Tools

This Handbook on CD will help you successfully use goats to manage vegetation. Many of these techniques can be adapted to use cattle and sheep.

The handbook is the result of six years of research on the use of goats for reducing fire danger and is designed for fire managers and livestock producers to give them the answers they need to successfully use this tool. It is browser based and best viewed using Internet Explorer. It includes:

data on vegetation reduction results
evidence of the success of goat fire breaks
suggestions on where to use this tool
information on how to manage goats for vegetation reduction (both weeds and fire fuels)
cost estimation tools
examples of contracts for services
business development assistance for producers
Videos showing goats at work, how to set up an electric fence, kidding, and what goats eat. These include:
- Introduction Video
- Vegetation Reduction, Fire Modeling and Post Fire Results - Shows results of goat browsing, success indicated by fire behavior modeling and actual results after a fire burned over the research plots in 2001.
- Timelapse Photos - Showing the change in vegetation over a two week period as goats graze in three separate pens.
- How to Build an Electric Fence - Tips on how to make this a quick and painless process.
- What Do Goats Eat? - An introduction to the research describing how livestock learn to eat a variety of forages, and how we can enhance this ability to help us better manage landscapes.
- Sheep Who Love Straw! and Experience vs. Inexperience - Two short follow-up videos to "What Do Goats Eat?" showing actual examples of the importance of learning and experience in livestock diet selection.
- Kidding 101 - Pointers for a successful kidding season for first time kidders.
- New-born Feeding and Early Weaning - A video describing the process of hand-raising 60 kids, and results of an early weaning experiment.
- FEMA Video - The Federal Emergency Management Agency visits a goat vegetation treatment site and describes the results and neighbor reactions.

$25.00 including Shipping and Handling

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