Released May 31, 2011
NORMAL, Ala. --- The Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Urban Affairs and New Nontraditional Programs unit has released a new textbook “Meat Goats: Reproduction, Nutrition, and Health.” This book is intended to be used as a guide to the fundamentals of meat goat production, and to expand the knowledge of goat reproduction, nutrition and health.
Goat production offers a viable form of sustainable livestock production, particularly for individuals with limited financial resources, land availability and physical abilities. Whereas some producers may be easily intimidated by large animal production such as beef or dairy cattle and hogs, goats are less intimidating because of their smaller body size and general demeanor.
Goats also serve as an environmentally friendly form of vegetative control and can easily be integrated as an alternative form of livestock for diversification. For example, they do not compete for the same type vegetation as cattle, sheep or swine and tend to complement other forms of livestock production.
“Meat Goats: Reproduction, Nutrition, and Health” represents a compilation of work by Extension’s animal science team specialists Julio E. Correa, Maria L. Leite-Browning and Robert Spencer, as well as Gregory Brann, a state grazing lands specialist at Tennessee Natural Resources Conservation Service and F. David Gonsoulin, a retired livestock and grain market news reporter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“We are really excited about this textbook. It has been years in the making, and we hope it will prove to be an invaluable resource for meat producers around the world,” says lead author and Extension animal scientist Correa.
To order a copy of “Meat Goats: Reproduction, Nutrition, & Health”, download a copy of the order form at http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/indexes/unpas.php. The cost of the book is $10, which includes shipping and handling. The book will ship within two to four weeks.
For more information, contact Correa at (256) 372-4173.
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