Dairy Goats
Cornell University: NYS 4-H Dairy Goat Program
Langston University: Grade A dairy goat farm requirements (for Oklahoma; contact your State Department of Agriculture)
Pennsylvania State University: Goat Housing and Equipment (includes milking barns/milk house plans)
University of California: Raising Dairy Goat Kids (PDF)
Washington State University Extension: Your Dairy Goat (PDF)
Feeding and Nutrition
Alabama Cooperative Extension System: Nutrition Requirements of Sheep and Goats
Langston University: Nutritional Requirements (Calculator); Body Condition Scoring; Goat diet/feed examples
Tuskegee University: Sustainable Year-Round Forage Production and Grazing/Browsing Management for Goats in the Southern Region (PDF and Video)
Washington State University Extension: Nutritional flushing of small ruminants (PDF);
General Production and Management
Alabama Cooperative Extension System: Goats
Cornell University: Meat Goat Herd Management Factsheets
Florida A and M University: Small Ruminant Program; Master Goat and Sheep Program
University of Kentucky: Goat Resource Page
Langston University: Goat Library
Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service: Meat goat selection and care
Penn State:Goat Production
Washington State University Extension: Individual goat production record (PDF); Goat meat facts poster (PDF)
Health and Biosecurity
American Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Control
Florida A and M University: Herd Health Program
Langston University: Castrating buck kids; Body condition scoring
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service: How to calculate dry ingredients for a footbath
Oklahoma State University: Foot rot control (PDF)
The Texas A&M System: Biosecurity for Sheep and Goat Producers
Tuskegee University: Integrated Management of Internal Parasites in Goats (PDF)
University of Maine: Foot Rot in Sheep and Goats
University of Rhode Island: NE Small Ruminant Parasite Control; Videos on parasite control, FAMACHA©, fecal egg counting
Washington State University Extension: Washington State Veterinary Medicine Extension; Producer Affidavit & Market Goat Health Record and instructions (PDF); Preventing navel ill (PDF); Selenium: essential for livestock health (PDF); Tube feeding neonatal small ruminants (PDF);
Housing/Facilities
Langston University: Housing for your goat
Pennsylvania State University: Goat Housing and Equipment
University of Tennessee: Ag. Building and Equipment Plan List
Kidding
Cornell University: Kidding Season Meat Goat Mentoring Guide; Low Input Lambing & Kidding Resource Guide
Sheepangoat.com: Getting ready for lambing and kidding; Raising lambs and kids artificially (raising orphans/bottle babies)
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service: Breeding and Kidding Management
Marketing and Products
Cornell University: Sheep and Goat Marketing
Langston University: Meat goat production and marketing; Marketing meat goats: Channel, supply,and demand; Consumer demand for goat meat
Miscellaneous
Cornell University: Goats in the Woods Workbook – PDF manual for using goats in forest management; Handouts from Cornell Goat & Sheep Annual Symposium
Langston University: Composting Dead Goats Bulletin (PDF); Mortality Composting website;
Youth and Showing
Cornell University: NYS 4-H Dairy Goat Program; NYS 4-H Meat Goat Program
Washington State University Extension: Fair animals are food animals (PDF); Youth market livestock profit calculator (XLS file); 4-H livestock volunteer disease prevention training module; 4-H livestock volunteer housing and welfare training module; 4-H livestock volunteer quality assurance training module; Selecting a 4-H/FFA Meat Goat Project Animal (PDF); Training, grooming and showing market goats (PDF)