Keeping milk goats in India / by J.L. Goheen.

  • John Lawrence Goheen
Date:
1933
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Keeping milk goats in India / by J.L. Goheen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have some special care and attention while she is “carry-. ing” her young. | 2. That most female goatsmake good mothers, but that: if there are two or more kids born it may be necessary to» take special care in seeing that the weakest or smallest have. an opportunity to drink and are not pushed away. 3. That the mother should be kept confined in her- special compartment for about four days, after giving birth,. when she may be allowed to go out to graze with the other: goats. She should be permitted to return to feed her kids. at intervals fof about every 6 hours during the first two: weeks of their lives. ) 4. The kids should be kept out in the open air and sunshine for a few hours each day, an inverted basket being quite satisfactory for this purpose, or else they should have: @ special run of their own. Shade is necessary in the heat: of the day. | 5. Absolute cleanliness is essential in all of the living and feeding arrangements of the growing kids. Arrangements, too, for play and exercise are also very necessary. | 6. After the kids are about a month old the intervals between feedings from their mother may be increased to. 8 or 10 hours, and at the time they are 34 months of age the night feeding may be stopped, while all feeding from the mother should be stopped at about 4 months of age.) When the kids are two weeks old they should be encourag- ed to start: eating: solid food, and from that time on the, amount of such food-should be gradually increased. 0, Tt is well to remember to. separate the male kids, such as ‘are “not. to: be ‘castrated, from the females, when)
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