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- Page 1 College of Agricultural Sciences • Cooperative Extension Market Goat Reference Project Guide Name Address Name of Club Leader’s Name Name of Project...
- Page 2 Market Goat Project...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents 1 Getting Started .............. 3 Monitoring Your Goat’s Progress ........30 Introduction ................3 Exercise ................31 How to Use Your Reference Guide ........3 7 Observing Goat Behavior ..........32 Purpose of the 4-H Market Goat Project ......3 Objectives ................ -
Page 5: Getting Started
Getting Started Introduction Welcome to the 4-H market goat project! Your 4-H market goat project can be an unforgettable How to Use Your Reference Guide learning experience. You will do many things that Your reference guide is designed to fit into a will help you undergo personal growth and three-ring notebook with your project record develop skills that will help you to become a... -
Page 6: Project Options
4-H Market Goat Project • how to keep your goat healthy Market goat projects can be completed in a • what is normal goat behavior few months and require fewer facilities and • what are the parts of a goat management skills than dairy goat projects. -
Page 7: Knowledge And Skills Checklist
Knowledge and Skills Checklist Meat Goat Project Requirements Your meat goat project has three major parts. 1. Caring for one or more meat goats each year. Do these things each year: 2. Completing activities and learning skills 1. Plan with your parents and leaders what needed to complete the meat goat project. -
Page 8: Required Market Goat Activities, Years 1 And 2
4-H Market Goat Project Required Market Goat Activities, years 1 and 2 Choose three the first year, and three the second year. Things to Do Date Done Signature Explain the meaning of these sex-related terms for goats: buck, doe, kid, and wether. Name and locate at least 10 of these body parts on a live goat or label the diagram in your book: loin, point of shoulder, wither, heart girth, toe, hock, tail, hoof, throat, poll, brisket, rump, ear,... -
Page 9: Additional Market Goat Activities, Years 3 And Beyond
Knowledge and Skills Checklist Additional Market Goat Activities, years 3 and beyond Choose three of these activities each year after the first two years. Things to Do Date Done Signature Draw a picture of a sick goat. Label the signs of sickness. Make a world map and show where five or more breeds of goats were developed. -
Page 10: Additional Life Skills Activities, Years 3 And Beyond
4-H Market Goat Project Things to Do Date Done Signature Visit a fair or show and listen to the judge give reasons for placing goats the way he or she did. Attend a fitting and showing clinic. Train and fit a market goat for show. Show a goat at a fair or roundup. - Page 11 Knowledge and Skills Checklist Things to Do Date Done Signature Give a talk to your club about something you learned or did with your market goat project. Give a presentation or talk to a group other than your club. Act out a skit or pretend you are making a radio or television commercial about 4-H, goats, or chevon.
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Page 12: Background Information
Background Information There are some things you should know about goats before you get started. Objectives the first wild animals to be domesticated, fol After studying the materials and completing the lowed closely by the domestication of goats. suggested activities for this section of your Goats probably originated in India and parts of project, you should be able to: Asia. -
Page 13: Factors To Consider When Raising Market Goats
Background Information American Meat Goat Association was formed in 1 or 2 acres of land. Before you purchase a goat of 1992 to promote and improve meat goats. any kind, make sure your community’s zoning Goats will continue to be an important do does not have rules against housing farm ani... - Page 14 12 4-H Market Goat Project Words You Should Know Extra Activities to Try Buck or Billy: Intact male goat. • Ask a local goat producer if the names they use Doe: Female goat. for goats mean the same thing as the names Doeling: Young female goat.
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Page 15: Breeds Of Goats
Breeds of Goats Goats come in many types and colors. Goats that are alike in color patterns and body structure often belong to the same breed. REEDS Objectives South African Boer Goat: The Boer goat was After studying the materials and completing the developed in South Africa as a breed meant solely suggested activities for this section of your for meat production. - Page 16 14 4-H Market Goat Project in the South, wild Spanish goats are being cross bred with larger dairy and angora goats to produce a meatier animal. Tennessee Meat Goat: These goats were devel oped from fainting goats (when startled their muscles lock up suddenly, and they fall over and lie stiff for a few seconds).
- Page 17 Breeds of Goats Alpine LaMancha Nubian Oberhasli Saanen Toggenburg The breed pictures on this page appear courtesy of the American Dairy Goat Association, Spindale, NC.
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Page 18: Your Goat's Pedigree
16 4-H Market Goat Project Your Goat’s Pedigree the breed registry association. A goat must meet A written record of the names of a kid’s parents, all of the requirements of the breed registry grandparents, and other ancestors is called its association to be registered. -
Page 19: Advantages Of Crossbreeds
Breeds of Goats Advantages of Crossbreeds goats, try to identify the breeds used in the cross. Crossbred goats have some advantages over • Write to the breed association to find out more purebred goats because of heterosis. Heterosis about the breed of your project goat. Describe usually gives a crossbred an improvement over what is special about the breed you have chosen. -
Page 20: Selecting Project Animals
Selecting Project Animals The conformation and size of the goat kid you choose will affect the success of your project. Try to choose thrifty, high-quality, lean, muscular, and structurally correct goats. You don’t need the yield, weight gain, and carcass quality. When most expensive animals to succeed. -
Page 21: Deciding How Much To Pay
Selecting Project Animals • Are his eyes bright, or are they dull and • What breeding stock has he come from? watery? • Has he already been vaccinated for enterotox • Is his nose warm and moist, or dry and hot? emia (overeating disease)? •... - Page 22 20 4-H Market Goat Project PARTS OF A GOAT 19 Hoof Poll 20 Pastern Forehead Bridge of nose 21 Hock Nostril 22 Thigh Muzzle 23 Stifle 24 Barrel 25 Pin bones 26 Tail Throat Dewlap 27 Hip 10 Point of shoulder 28 Ribs 11 Heart girth 29 Withers...
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Page 23: How Big Should My Kid Goat Be
Selecting Project Animals How Big Should My Kid Goat Be? Table 1. Religious Holidays 2002–2005 A healthy market goat, fed properly and properly Event 2002 2003 2004 2005 cared for, should gain 2 to 3 pounds a week or 10 to 15 pounds a month. - Page 24 22 4-H Market Goat Project MARKET GOAT BUDGET Receipts Sell market goat Weight ( ) x cents per pound ( ) = value Premiums Total receipts Expenses Feed—grain Pounds grain needed ( ) x cost per pound ( ) = grain cost Feed—hay Pounds hay needed ( ) x cost per pound (...
- Page 25 Selecting Project Animals also be bought at livestock sales. Look for kids it. Subtract what you think it will cost to pay for from producers who have sold goats to other feed (see “How much will my goat eat?” to successful 4-H’ers.
- Page 26 24 4-H Market Goat Project http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ • When can you justify paying a little more for LN_LS142.txt. If you have access to previous your market goat, why? years’ average sale prices for market goats (not Things to Talk About including champions) from your junior livestock •...
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Page 27: Caring For Your Goat
Caring for Your Goat Taking proper care of your project goat will be a great learning experience for you. Your goat has many needs that must be met in order to live use shredded paper, straw, corn cobs, or shavings comfortably. -
Page 28: Keeping Your Goats Clean
26 4-H Market Goat Project A permanent goat fence should have four strands of electric wire. The bottom strand should be no more than 6 inches off the ground. The next strand should be 12–14 inches off the ground, the third strand 18–22 inches off the ground, and the fourth strand 30–34 inches off the ground. -
Page 29: A Goat's Digestive System
Caring for Your Goat A Goat’s Digestive System may become lodged in the reticulum. This may Goats are “ruminants.” This means that they have cause a condition called “hardware disease,” in a stomach with four compartments and they which hardware lodged in the reticulum perfo chew their cud to help digest their feed. -
Page 30: Feeding Your Goat
28 4-H Market Goat Project Feeding Your Goat Table 2. Sample rations with three different protein levels. The feeds you will feed your goat can be put into Ingredients two major groups, roughage and concentrates. (lbs per ton of feed) protein protein protein... -
Page 31: How Much Feed Will My Goat Eat
Caring for Your Goat iodine, sulfur, magnesium, selenium, zinc, and trace amounts of copper. Copper is the one min eral that must be closely watched when feeding goats. There is currently much disagreement over how much copper a goat needs. Be cautious when feeding supplements that contain copper. -
Page 32: Monitoring Your Goat's Progress
30 4-H Market Goat Project large variety of other tree-like material. You day x 129 days). Most meat goats will gain .2 to .5 should always feed the concentrate and any pounds per day. How much weight your goat supplement first. Give the goats time to clean up gains per day and how well it converts feed to the concentrate before feeding the hay or other meat is affected by genetics, environment, the... -
Page 33: Exercise
Caring for Your Goat is growing at the correct rate. Increase the amount market animal. Ask them how they measure of grain fed and/or the energy level of the ration “finish” on their animals. How does that compare if your goat is growing too slowly. Decrease the to the way you will measure “finish”... -
Page 34: Observing Goat Behavior
Observing Goat Behavior Goats can show you whether they are sick or healthy by the way they act, the sounds they make, and by the consistency of their manure. Learn to watch and listen to your goats because Goats seem to have a high tolerance for bitter they can show you when they are okay and when materials and as a result will eat things that other they need you to do something for them. - Page 35 Observing Goat Behavior regurgitate a bolus for chewing, then re-swallow the chewed plant material. Also learn to recognize general signs that your goat isn’t feeling well by observing its behavior. Goats that are sluggish, lack energy, or don’t eat may have health problems. See Section 8 for more information on signs of sick goats.
- Page 36 34 4-H Market Goat Project Suggested Activities Things to Talk About • Spend time observing goats as they eat and • How does a goat usually act during a typical sleep. Point out the different behaviors you see to day? your parent or leader.
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Page 37: Keeping Goats Healthy
Keeping Goats Healthy The success of any livestock operation depends upon the health of the animals. Healthy, well- managed goats will grow and produce efficiently. Disease in a goat herd can be costly, and can temperature for a goat is 102–103 degrees F. Kids quickly destroy a herd. -
Page 38: Common Health Problems And Diseases Of Goats
36 4-H Market Goat Project Respiration rate is the number of breaths a DIARRHEA goat takes in a minute. You can watch your goat Diarrhea in goats can be caused by a variety of breathe in and out and count how many times he things, but one of the most common causes is breathes in a minute. - Page 39 Keeping Goats Healthy INTERNAL PARASITES WORMS CASEOUS LYMPHADENITIS Worming your goat should be a regular part of This disease is caused by bacteria that can live in your management plan. Goats, by nature, will the soil for a very long time. Until recently it was tend to pick up parasites while they graze and go believed that the disease could only be contracted about their daily routines.
- Page 40 38 4-H Market Goat Project BLOAT Bloat occurs when excess gas forms in the rumen. If your goat is bloated, its left (rumen) side will look like a balloon. Your goat will be in pain and may grunt, slobber, cry, and kick at its stomach. If you have never treated bloat, it is best to call a veterinarian.
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Page 41: Routine Vaccinations For Young Market Goats
Keeping Goats Healthy virus particles can survive conditions normally with sore mouth cannot participate in shows. Be fatal to most viruses. For example, this virus has very careful and wear gloves when handling been known to live in wood (such as the wood in goats with sore mouth! a wooden feed trough) for 12 years. - Page 42 40 4-H Market Goat Project other diseases. Such diseases may be contagious • Find out what veterinary examinations and and passed from goat to goat and from flock to documents are needed to show a goat at a state flock. Therefore, to maintain “biosecurity” (a show, such as The Pennsylvania Farm Show.
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Page 43: Chevon And Quality Assurance
Chevon and Quality Assurance Because you have a 4-H market goat project, you are a food producer. All goat producers are linked to the human food chain because they produce meat for people to eat. Therefore, it is the ratios of lean:fat:bone. The average dressing your responsibility to make sure the chevon you percentage for goats is 50 percent. -
Page 44: Live Animal Treatment
42 4-H Market Goat Project CHEVON QUALITY CHEVON QUALITY ASSURANCE Consumers who buy chevon want the highest The way you treat your goat can alter the quality, quality product they can buy. They want a prod safety, and wholesomeness of the chevon your uct that is uniform and tastes good. -
Page 45: Antibiotic Use
Chevon and Quality Assurance subjected to rough handling or abuse. Goats are the last month or so of the feeding period should very easy to lead and respond well to a gentle, be completely free of medications. Check tags of easy manner. - Page 46 44 4-H Market Goat Project Ideas for Presentations and Talks Do not combine drugs. Some drugs will mix • Factors affecting chevon quality well, but others will change color and consistency • Ensuring safe, wholesome chevon and become ineffective. Don’t take the chance. •...
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Page 47: The Roundup
Roundup At the start of your market goat project, decide if you are going to show your goat in a livestock show or roundup at some point. If so, you need your goat will affect where and when you should to plan and prepare for the show. -
Page 48: What Do You Need To Do And Have
46 4-H Market Goat Project What Do You Need to Do and Have? You should start preparing for the roundup several months in advance. Be sure your entries are submitted well before the entry deadline. Schedule a veterinarian to do any required health tests and vaccinations. - Page 49 The Roundup hair two weeks before the show. This way it will end of the tail. Find the end of the bones in the be easy for the judge to observe his conformation tail and leave about an inch of hair after that. and muscling.
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Page 50: Showing Your Goat
48 4-H Market Goat Project Showing Your Goat answer what questions you can, and end the You should show your animals with a chain or conversation as quickly as possible. Report the clean cotton/nylon collar, but make sure you person to your parent or leader. have gotten him accustomed to this collar before... - Page 51 The Roundup Regardless of who takes your goat home, you receive the final bid price. Therefore it pays to contact as many potential buyers as possible about attending the sale and bidding on your goat. The more bidders that are at the sale specifi cally to bid on your goat, the more your goat may sell for.
- Page 52 50 4-H Market Goat Project Next, make plans to contact each of the • Discuss fitting and showing with an experi people on your list. Many 4-H’ers write letters enced show person. asking for support at a junior livestock sale. •...
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Page 53: Code Of Ethics
The Roundup CODE OF ETHICS Exhibitors of animals shall at all 1. All exhibitors must rules affect the animal’s perfor times deport themselves with present upon request of show mance or appearance in the honesty and good sportsman officials, proof of ownership, event. - Page 54 52 4-H Market Goat Project 5. Any surgical procedure contribute or cooperate with contravenes these rules and is or injection of any foreign another person or persons in violation of federal and state substance or drug or the exter either by affirmative action or statutes, regulations, or rules nal application of any substance inaction to violate this code of...
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Page 55: Keeping 4-H Records
Keeping Records When you write down something that you did or that happened, you are keeping a record. Records help you remember important information. Kinds of Records Records can prove what was done, who did Several kinds of records should be kept by 4-H it, and how much money it cost to do it. - Page 56 54 4-H Market Goat Project 2. Expenses. These are amounts of money Average daily gain can be calculated if you spent to buy animals, and the things used to care weigh your animals more than once. Subtract the for them. Include costs of feed, supplies, equip first weight from the second to calculate pounds ment, animals, and veterinary care.
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Page 57: Market Goat Performance Traits
Keeping 4-H Records MARKET GOAT PERFORMANCE TRAITS Feed consumed per day (pounds) Average Range 40-pound goat 1.5–2.25 60-pound goat 2–3 100-pound goat 2.5–4.0 Feed eaten per pound of weight gain 6–7 Total feed required from 40–100 pounds 300–380 Average daily gain 40–100 pounds .3 lbs/day .2–.45 lbs/day Carcass traits—100 pound goat... -
Page 58: Your 4-H Accomplishment Records
56 4-H Market Goat Project Below is an example of an animal production Estrus: The period of time when a doe can be record associated with dairy goats. successfully mated. Gestation: The time of pregnancy between mat ing and kidding. Average Range Milk production... -
Page 59: Market Goat Management Schedule
Market Goat Management Schedule Plan Buy six- to nine-week-old kid goats weighing 40– 50 pounds. Market them when they are seven to Assumptions nine months old and weigh 90–110 pounds. Dates Goats will eat an average about 2.5 pounds of will change depending on the dates of your show. - Page 60 58 4-H Market Goat Project Sample dates Dates for Goat weight Things to do (will show Aug. 15) your project Less than 40 pounds Plan project. Dec–Jan Arrange project financing. Get barn and pens ready for goats. Make sure feeders and waterers are ready to use. Arrange to buy feed and bedding.
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Page 61: Appendix
Appendix Web Sites with Useful Goat Information http://www.sheepandgoat.com/ This site provides links to wide variety of educa http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/extension/ tional sites. meatgoat3.html#cal http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/lenoir/staff/jnix/Ag/ This site offers excellent marketing information, Goat/ including dates, weights, and special consider This site hosted by North Carolina State Univer ations needed to market goats. - Page 63 Authors Prepared by Linda I. Spahr, 4-H dairy and livestock youth agent, York County; Heather Glennon, agriculture agent, Bucks County; Robert E. Mikesell, senior extension associate; Robin B. Keyser, former assistant professor of agricultural and extension education; Patrick J. Carroll, graduate extension assistant;...
- Page 64 18 U.S.C. 707 4-H Club Motto “To make the best better” 4-H Club Pledge I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living, for my club, my community, my country, and my world.
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