How to buy healthy goats and quarantine new stock so you never introduce disease, worms, or lameness into your herd. A field checklist for smallholders.

Practical worm control for goats in tropical Vietnam and Laos: FAMACHA scoring, smart deworming, and pasture management to stop resistance and losses.

Learn how to wean goat kids without weight loss or setbacks. A practical, step-by-step guide to weaning Lao Vietnam goat kids onto solid feed safely.

Learn to feed meat goats for safe, fast growth: build a low-cost forage ration, balance minerals, and prevent bloat and urinary stones in bucks.

Control barber pole worm in Lao Vietnam goats with FAMACHA scoring, targeted deworming, and smarter grazing that protects the herd and slows drug resistance.

Practical barber’s pole worm control for goats using FAMACHA scoring, smart grazing, and targeted deworming to cut losses and slow drug resistance.

Build a practical feeding plan for Lao Vietnam meat goats: balance browse, cut forage, and supplements for steady growth without wasting money on feed.

Stop foot rot in goats before it spreads. Learn the real causes, how to tell it from foot scald, treatment steps, and a prevention checklist that actually works.

Learn when to help during a difficult goat kidding, how to check kid position, and how to care for newborn kids in the first hour. A calm, practical field guide.

A practical dry-season feeding plan for Lao Vietnam goats: balance energy and protein, use cut-and-carry forage safely, and hold body condition without waste.

A goat can tolerate a surprising range of conditions, but the one thing it handles poorly is being wet and cold for long stretches. In the humid lowlands where Lao and Vietnamese herds are commonly raised, the real enemy is not the heat of the dry season but the standing damp of the rains. Good…

Breeding is where a goat herd either grows in quality or slowly drifts downhill. Every kidding is a chance to improve the herd, but it is also the moment of greatest risk to both the doe and her offspring. A farmer who plans matings deliberately, manages the pregnant doe well, and is ready and calm…

Lameness is one of the most common and most underestimated problems in goat keeping. A limping goat eats less, moves less, breeds poorly, and loses condition quickly, yet the underlying cause is very often nothing more than neglected hooves. In the soft, wet ground of the Southeast Asian rainy season, horn grows fast and stays…

Feed is the largest running cost in almost any goat operation, and pasture and browse are the cheapest feed there is. Yet a great deal of that free feed is wasted through careless grazing management. Goats turned loose on the same patch of ground day after day trample and foul more than they eat, the…

Design a raised-slat goat housing system that keeps animals dry, cool, and healthy in hot, humid climates. Slat spacing, ventilation, and space rules explained.

A practical guide to feeding Lao Vietnam goats: build a low-cost, balanced forage ration with browse, legumes, and safe supplements to boost growth and health.

Learn how to control barber’s pole worm in Lao Vietnam goats using FAMACHA scoring, smart deworming, and grazing management to stop losses without wasting drenches.

Learn how to quarantine new goats before they join Lao Vietnam herds: isolation steps, what to check, deworming, and the biosecurity mistakes that spread disease.

Starting a goat herd is one of the more rewarding entry points into livestock farming, but the decisions you make in the first few months tend to echo through the entire life of your operation. Goats are intelligent, social, and surprisingly hardy animals, yet they punish careless management more quickly than cattle or sheep. A…

Feeding goats well is less about following a fixed recipe and more about reading the animal in front of you and adjusting to the calendar. A goat’s nutritional needs shift dramatically across the year, driven by pregnancy, lactation, growth, weather, and the changing quality of available forage. Farmers who feed the same ration in February…

Of all the health challenges facing goat farmers, internal parasites are arguably the most persistent and the most costly. Worm infections quietly drain animals of nutrients, suppress growth, reduce milk production, and in severe cases kill quickly. Compounding the problem, decades of routine deworming have produced parasite populations resistant to many available drugs. Successful parasite…

Kidding season is the most anticipated and the most nerve-wracking time of the year on a goat farm. Months of careful breeding and feeding culminate in a few intense weeks of births, and the difference between a smooth season and a heartbreaking one often comes down to preparation and knowing what is normal. While the…

Lameness is one of the most common and most overlooked welfare problems in goat herds. A lame goat eats less, falls behind the herd, loses condition, and becomes more vulnerable to other illnesses, yet the underlying causes are usually preventable with consistent foot care. Goats evolved on rocky, arid terrain that naturally wore down their…

Rotational grazing is one of the most powerful management practices available to goat farmers, simultaneously improving pasture health, animal nutrition, and parasite control. Rather than allowing goats to roam a single large area continuously, rotational grazing divides land into smaller paddocks and moves animals through them in a planned sequence. The concept sounds simple, but…

For many smallholders, the daily ritual of milking goats is one of the great pleasures of livestock keeping, yielding fresh milk for drinking, cheese, yogurt, and soap. But producing milk that is genuinely clean, safe, and good-tasting takes more than simply squeezing the udder. Milk quality is determined by the health of the doe, the…

Anyone who has kept goats for more than a week learns quickly that these animals test every boundary, exploit every weakness, and find comfort in the most surprising places. Providing proper shelter and secure fencing is therefore not just a matter of convenience but of welfare, health, and the farmer’s sanity. Goats are escape artists…