Bibliography

Building and Planning

Building and Planning: A-L

Bedding

Depth

Water absorbing capacity of bedding materials 

Business Planning

Feeder Space

Fencing

    Fencing Measurements

    Acres, rods, miles chart

Fence Posts

    Anchor posts (corner posts)

    Line posts (between corners)

    Post holes

Hay capacity per foot of shed length

Hay/straw storage space

Heating

Lumber

    Actual size v. labeled size

    Understanding board feet

Building and Planning:   Section:  M

Manure

Math Formulas

Measurements of Goats

Milking equipment

    Hose

    Milking cluster

Cluster components that are sold individually:

  Milking claws

 Liners/Inflations

         When to replace inflations

   Shells

    Other Milking Equipment

Milk meters

Power takeoffs

Clean In Place (CIP)

Pulsators / pulsator boards

Vacuum gauge

Bucket milkers

Teat dip cups

Milking parlor equipment

      Headstall Units

      Stands

           Metal milking stand

          Single metal stand for medical treatments

           Cement  milking stand (coming soon)

Milk room equipment

Bulk tank

Temperature

Capacity (gallon)  / lb. milk  

How to figure out what size bulk tank to buy for your herd

Example for new producers

Moving and Installing bulk tanks

  Bulk tank washers

Sinks

        Equipment washing sink

        Hand washing sink

Hose Chute

Cooling compressor

Milk Sock Box

Paper towel dispenser

Self-closing doors

Milk room/Milking Parlor Setup

Average peak lbs. of milk / day  

Milk out time

  Stray voltage between equipment and ground

  Minimum air flow requirements to milk on a pipeline system

  Minimum airy flow to wash per loop of pipeline

  Regulators and Safety Valves

  Vacuum level

  Vacuum lines

  Traplines

  Pulsation lines

  Sanitary trap

  Milk lines (type and slope)

Milking parlor arrangement options:

Stand arrangement: single or double

Stanchion arrangements on stand: herringbone, parallel or straight

Pipeline arrangements: low line, mid-line, high-line, standard or swing

Milk Room Instruction Sheet

Milk Truck Pad

Building and Planning:   Section:  N-Z

Pens for livestock

    Working pen for sorting

     Breeding pen

     Quarantine pen

      Maternity pen

Regulations for setting up the milk room and parlor

Sample Farms  (Diagrams of barns that have been converted into goat dairies) See table below:

Click on the Farm number in the left column to access the diagram and description of the farm.

	Barn types on farm	Milking setup	Stand	Feeding	Equipment
Farm 1	Remodeled older barn with additions	portable milking machine	oval metal	round bales hay and baleage	tractor
Farm 2 (see below) *	Two remodeled older barns	highline, swing, pipeline	metal double 8	small and lg. square hay, round baleage	tractor
Farm 3	Two pole barns	lowline pipeline	cement single 6	round bales, hay	2 tractors, 2 skid steers
Farm 4	Two converted horse arenas  side by side	highline pipeline	metal double 6	round bales, hay	skid steer
Farm 5	Remodeled barn	lowline pipeline	cement double 8	small square bales hay, fed from outside building directly into indoor pens (idea could be adapted for round or lg. squares)	tractor
Farm 6	Pole barn with 2 additions	low line pipeline	Milking pit with stanchions along  two sides	large square bales	skid steer

*Farm 2 has a lot of detail..  Click each entry separately.  

Farm 2: Milking barn

Farm 2- Dry goat and kid barn 

Farm 2 Buck and Doeling Shed

Farm 2- summary sheet

Stocking rates

Indoor areas

Outdoor areas

Temperature tolerance

Ventilation

Wall materials

Water

Water / goat

Considerations

Removable Watering Unit

Water conversion

Stocking Rates for Waterers

Water tank capacity (round tank)

Water tank capacity (oval tank)

Windows

Building and Planning:  Plans 

Plans are in PDF format  You must have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to read them.  Free download at download Adobe Reader.  If the documents do not pop up after you click on them, then click the Adobe Reader box in your taskbar at the bottom of the page and they will come up.

Plans on this site:

Adult goat coat

Attaching Pritchard Nipples to Bucket Feeders

Feed bunk, concrete walkway

Feed bunk, industrial shelving, slanted headstalls

Feed bunk, wood, pallet headstalls

Feed bunk, wood, slatted headstalls

Feeder, vertical, mineral  (PVC)

Figuring Stand Space (goats parallel)

Hand Milking Unit

Headstalls, pallet board, different applications

Kid box

Making Bucket Feeders (using plastic buckets with lamb nipples)

Mini-Milker

Stand, metal, herringbone, for parlor milking (large plan, slow to load)

Stand, metal, parallel  for parlor milking

Stand, plywood (for one goat)

Three-sided shed

Three sided shed, simple

Watering  Unit, Hudson Valve-Plasson Coupler.pdf

Plans from other sites

100 Goat Dairy facility (plan to order)

Goat stand, parlor, cheese plant, milking house/milking parlor, buck yard

Goat Housing and Equipment

Goat Milking Stand (wood)

Hoop House (shelter made with cattle panel)

Hoop House (shelter made with PVC Pipe)

Instructions for using a "deck chair" or treatment sling

Make a simple hand milker for under $10

Photographs of one farmer's milking parlor and lots

Photos of housing (3 sided shed)  feed bunks, mineral feeders

PVC Feeder- 2 types

Round Bale Feeder Plan (for sale)

Sheep and goat housing in tropical climates

Single goat milking or treatment stand

Tobacco barn renovation

Walk-through double-sided feeders for goats 

What to look for in a dairy goat

How to examine a goat before you buy

Parts of the dairy goat

Breeds of Dairy Goats

Average size, milk yield and milk composition of dairy goat breeds

Standards for judging dairy goats

a. General appearance

b. Dairy character

c. Body Capacity

d. Mammary system

Breed Characteristics

Alpine or French alpine

Alpine color descriptions

LaMancha

Nigerian Dwarfs

Nubian

Oberhasli

Saanen

Sable

Toggenburg

Breed Characteristics

Conversions

Definitions     A-K   L-P  Q-Z

Disease Database   Under construction

Disease Database A-B

Abscesses

Acidosis (enterotoxemia, grain overload, founder, overeating disease)

Alopicic Exfoliative Dermatitis

Akabane

Acariasis (Mange)

Anthrax

BDV (Border Disease)

Bloat

Blue Bag (Mastitis, Black)

Bluetongue

Border Disease (BVD)

Brucellosis

Disease Database C-E 

CAE (Caprine arthritic encephalitis)

Campylobacteriosis

Caprine Arthritic Encephalitis (CAE)

Capripox

Caseous Lymphadenitis (Abscesses, CL)

Chlamydiosis

Chorioptic Mange

Circling disease (Listeriosis, Listeriasis, Listerellosis)

Cobalt Deficiency

Coccidiosis (scours)

Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

Contact Dermatitis

Contagious Agalactia

Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCP or CCPP)

Cutaneous Myiasis (Fly strike)

Cutaneous Neoplasias (papillomas, squamous cell carcinoma, melanomas)

Cryptococcosis

Cryptosporidiosis

Dermatomycosis (Ringworm, Dermatophytosis, Tinea)

Dermatophytosis (Ringworm, Dermatomycosis, Tinea)

Dermatophilosis

Diarrhea

Endotoxemia

Enteritis

Enterotoxemia (overeating disease, founder, acidosis)

Disease Database F-K

Floppy Kid Syndrome (Metabolic acidosis without dehydration)

Fly Strike (Cutaneous Myiasis)

Foot and Mouth Disease

Foot Rot

Foot Scald

Founder (enterotoxemia, acidosis, overeating disease, grain overload)

Gangrenous Mastitis (Mastitis, Black)

Grain Overload (enterotoxemia, overeating disease, acidosis, founder)

Hairy Shaker Disease (BDV)

Heartwater (Cowdriosis)

Hypocalcemia (milk fever)

Infectious keratoconjunctivitis (pinkeye)

Johnes (Paratuberculosis)

Ketosis See PregnancyToxemia if the goat is dry and pregnant.  See Lactational Ketosis if the goat has given

                birth, and is milking.

Disease Database L-O

Lactational Ketosis

Leptospirosis

Lice

Listeriasis (Listeriosis, Circling Disease, Listerellosis)

Listeriosis (Circling disease, Listeriasis, Listerellosis)

Listerellosis (Listeriosis, Circling Disease, Listeriasis)

Lockjaw (tetanus)

Lumpy Skin disease

Maedi-Visna (pasteurella pneumonia)

Mange (Acariasis)

Mastitis

Mastitis (black)

Melanoma (Cutaneous neoplasias)

Meliodosis (pseudomonas pseudomallei)

Metabolic Acidosis Without Dehydration (Floppy Kid Syndrome)

Milk Fever (Hypocalcemia)

Orf (Contagious Ecthyma)

Overeating disease (Enterotoxemia, Acidosis, found, acidosis, grain overload)

Disease Database P-Q

Papilloma (warts)  (Cutaneous neoplasias)

Paratuberculosis (Johnes)

Parturient Paresis (Hypocalcemia)

Pasteurella Pneumonia

Pemphigus

Peste des Petits Ruminants

Photosentization

Pink eye (infectious keratoconjunctivitis)

Pleuropneumonia

Pneumonia, Pasteurella

Polioencephalomalacia (Thiamine deficiency)

Pregnancy Toxemia

Q Fever

Disease Database R-Z

Rectal prolapse

Rift Valley Fever

Rinderpest

Ringworm (Dermatophytosis, Dermatomycosis, Tinea)

Scours (Coccidiosis)

Scrapie

Selenium Deficiency Selenium Deficiency (White Muscle Disease)

Skin cancer (cutaneous neoplasias)

Soremouth (Contagious Ecthyma)

Squamous Cell Carcinoma or skin cancer  ( Cutaneous neoplasias)

Tetanus (lockjaw)

Thiamine deficiency (Polioencephalomalacia

Tinea (Ringworm, Dermatophytosis, Dermatomycosis))

Urithroliasis (urinary calculi)

Urinary calculi (Urithroliasis)

Vaginal prolapse

Warts (Cutaneous Neoplasias)

West Nile Fever

White Liver Disease

White Muscle Disease (Selenium Deficiency)

Zinc deficiency

Medical Section: A-D

 

Age Determination

    Using teeth to determine age  

    Broken Mouth

    Fetal age determination by presence of body parts

    Fetal age determination by fetal length

Anatomy and Physiology

Assessment Form

Behavior of Goats

Blood Chemistry Values In An Adult Goat 

Blood Sampling

Body Condition Scoring

Boluses and balling guns

Castration  

Cleaning/ Disinfecting

Composting Dead Goats

Disaster Preparedness For Livestock

Drenching and Dosing

Drug Databases

Drug Labeling. Extra-Label Drug Use, AMDUCA, MUMS

Drug Dosages  (How to Figure Them)

Medical Section: E-M

 

External parasites

Fleas

Goat Facts (normal values)

Herd Health Programs

Hoof Trimming

Horns:  Disbudding, dehorning, removing scurs

Reasons for removing horns

Reasons for keeping horns

Disbudding (removing horns from newborns)

Dehorning (removing horns from adult goats)

Removing scur horns (horns that were disbudded but grew back)

IV medications

Lice

Medical Section: N-R

 

Normal Blood Chemistry Values

Normal Values of Cerebrospinal Fluid

Normal Values of Minerals in Goat Tissues

Parasite control

Signs of heavy parasite load

Antiparasite Drugs

Three approaches to parasite control

Smart Drenching

Bliss Method

Where goats have access to grass

Where goats have no access to grass

Hutchins Approach

Other ideas about parasite control

Testing for antiparasite (anthelmintic) drug effectives

Two main types of parasites from the Trichostronguloides family

Factors that affect the release of adult parasites

FAMACHA testing

Paste medications

Poisonous Plants

Quarantine

Medical Section: S-Z

 

Shots (how to give them)

Filling a Syringe

Giving A Shot

How to give IM shots (intramuscular): in the muscle

How to give SQ shots (subcutaneous): under the skin

Taking a Goat's Pulse (Heart Rate)

Taking a Goat's Respiration Rate (Breathing rate)

Taking a Goat's Temperature

Tattoo Identification (coming soon)

How to Tattoo

Teeth

Broken Mouth

Dental anatomy in ruminants

Sore Teeth

Ticks

Tube feeding

How to insert a feeding tube

Ultrasounds

Two methods: rectal/abdominal

Rectal Ultrasounds

What you can see rectally 

Abdominal ultrasounds

What you can see abdominally

Ultrasound and abortions

Ultrasounds and hydrometria

Measuring fetal age with ultrasound

Vaccinations

C, D &T

Selenium

Pasteurella

Tetanus

Wattles (How to remove them)

Weight

Method 1: Heartgirth conversion chart

Method 2: Heartgirth and length formula