Breeding Goats Out of Season
Nancy Glazier, Small Farms & Livestock Specialist
Northwest New York Dairy, Livestock & Field Crops
January 29, 2018
This fact sheet fro Dr. tatiana Stanton, Cornell small ruminant specialist, provides an overview of common procedures used in dairy goats to induce them bred out of season. It then summarizes the results of observations from 2005 to 2007 for 13 Northeast US meat goat farms attempting to breed their meat goats out of season and describes the successful management practices used by some of the farms.
OutOfSeasonFactSheet (pdf; 91KB)
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