If you deliberate whether not to buy you a goat, buy. She uses much less forages in comparison with a cow. This most unpretentious animal in economy. It is possible to talk about curative qualities of goat milk endlessly. But except milk the goat gives wool, down, meat. Goat manure is much more useful as fertilizer to a kitchen garden, than any other. In a word, do not ask what advantage from a goat. The advantage is very big. The main thing, is correct to choose a goat.
Instruction
1. You should not buy a goat hurriedly in the market. Better previously visit a goat farm. Here you will be able not only to see what conditions contain animals, but also to look at parents. Such major quality as milking capacity depends on the breeding line. Choose a nanny-goat with good heredity.
2. The posterity of breeding goats from good producers costs expensive, but it is better, than to support two-three animals with mediocre or even low indicators of milk yield. First of all you buy a goat for the sake of her milk.
3. Do not buy goats from closely related mixture. Such animals have no high milking capacity and are often marked out by internal ugliness.
4. Upon purchase of an animal pay attention to appearance, a condition of wool, reaction on people around. The old or sick goat looks oppressed, with a flabby belly, wool at such animals dim and felted.
5. Give to an animal crouton. The young nanny-goat quickly sgryzt it, and old will long procrastinate in a mouth and only then will swallow.
6. At a healthy goat silent breath, a clean nose, bright eyes and good brilliant wool.
7. Pay attention to an udder. It has to be elastic, have the pear-shaped form, and nipples have to be the average size, convenient for milking. Check nipples. Sometimes at goats "blind" nipples or, on the contrary, meet a double opening. Any deviations in the form of an udder from norm – an occasion to refuse purchase.
8. Scratch a goat between horns and smell a hand. It is noticed that the animal who does not have an unpleasant smell gives more tasty milk.
9. Buying a young nanny-goat at the age of 2-3 months, check that she was not bisexual. The hermaphroditism meets at goats quite often, and it is not necessary to wait from such animal of high milk yield. The good nanny-goat has to have accurately expressed sexual characters, externally has to be "womanly" and not have goat type of behavior.
10. Choose larger animal in a dung. Such goats differ in good health and higher molochnost. The skeleton of young nanny-goats in general is similar to skeleton of an adult goat, but a leg at young growth longer, and the head is more graceful. The animal too fragile by sight, with short legs, seems graceful and tiny, but with age will not become your real wet nurse. Such goat will remain painful and sickly.