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Goats are easy to keep. They have few diseases but are lucky to give birth so the goats increase rapidly. People with little capital can also raise goats. Goat raising also takes a little effort but recovers capital quickly, the economic efficiency is very clear ... Especially in difficult conditions, it is impossible to raise other livestock and poultry, but still can raise goats because there is little capital. , simple, easy to do, high economic efficiency. On average, each year can earn 40-50 million VND.

Therefore, dairy goats are considered "dairy cows of low-capital farmers", participating in hunger eradication, poverty reduction, and successful enrichment.

If you intend to farm goats, here is what you need to be prepared.

Learn about goats and effective goat breeding patterns

Before breeding goats you need to learn about goat species, growth characteristics, common diseases in goats as well as highly effective goat breeding models to orient yourself and be confident with your knowledge of breeding. goats open the farm.

Goat is easy to raise, it is easier to raise goats than other cattle and poultry, does not take care of other animals, especially suitable for coastal areas, with less disease and reproduction. and fast weight gain. Goats are adapted to many different ecological regions, goats use food sources from plants and plants and take advantage of agricultural and industrial by-products mainly, using less refined food.

The consumption markets for products such as goat meat, goat milk, goat's breast, goat blood, goat pearls are all precious, high quality, delicious and nutritious products. Especially goat's milk used regularly can prevent and treat malnutrition, rickets, asthma for children and foster health for the elderly. Goats provide very good fertilizer for crops and aquaculture.

The market for goat breeding products is plentiful, diversified and very stable, not only in the short term but also in the long term. Currently, on the domestic market, goat's milk is sold for 8,000 - 10,000 VND / liter (3 times higher than cow's milk), goat meat 50,000-60,000 VND / kg (1.5 times higher than that of cow's milk). beef), turquoise goat from 100,000 - 120,000 VND / Set (3 times higher than beef) ...

Because of these advantages, opening a goat farm is a very feasible idea with high economic efficiency, you can raise goats for meat, dairy or breeding goats, goats in captivity, goats to graze on hills ...

You can take training courses on goat farming techniques of the Department of Agriculture or go to other farms to research their models to get knowledge and experience, buy books, instruction on goat farming to read ...

Prepare capital

Depending on the initial capital that you raise small or large, if you do not have much experience or a little capital, you should implement small-scale livestock first and then expand later, to avoid more losses.

Compared to breeding other animals, goat farming does not need much capital, quick capital turnover, and takes advantage of labor and natural conditions. You should make a detailed plan of what to spend to be able to mobilize the necessary capital, with less capital, buy less seed and multiply gradually, with more capital, you buy more seed ...

Farm location

If your house has available land, you do not need to find rent or buy land for a farm, if not, you can search in the area to rent / buy.

The location of the farm is also very important, you need to choose a place that is spacious, reliable water, suitable climate, and should also pay attention to convenient traffic to be able to use large means of transport to transport. products and food storage, prevention of diseases in livestock ...

You should pay attention to clear and transparent terms when making a lease or buying farmland to avoid future troubles.

Make a barn

Goat breeding facilities should be designed with 3 parts:

Barn: Goat barn can be a simple house or camp, but must be ensured in a dry, clean and well-ventilated place, away from hot and humid sun. The floor must be flat, smooth for easy cleaning, with feces and urine drainage. Goat barns are best made southeast direction to cool in warm summer in winter.

Cribs, cages, goat cages: can be made of bamboo, wood, or make use of available materials. All must be sure, neat, and not let go through and fall under. The floor of the cage should be 50–80 cm above the ground. The breeding box should ensure the area: male goat: 1.5 -2 m2, meat goat 0.6m2.

Playground: is the ground, adjacent to the barn with protective fences. Playground area must be clear, cool, shady, flat without standing water. The playground is usually 3 times the size of the barn.

Because it is an animal that does not like high humidity, the barn for goats needs to be clean, well ventilated, away from hot and humid sun. When building a stable, depending on the characteristics of each region, each specific house, determine the appropriate location and direction of the barn to take advantage of the favorable factors and minimize the adverse factors of weather for the goats.

In front of the barn, there should be a large yard to monitor and manage the goats, as well as when catching goats for inspection, breeding, feeding and disease prevention. But the most important thing is to avoid inbreeding for goats to ensure productivity and quality of breeds.

Buy baby goat breeds

For many people with experience in raising goats, initially you should not import too many breeds, initially just raise 15-20 very standard goat mothers, both raising and gaining experience and multiplying the herd. Depending on the species of goat and the breeding purpose you choose the right goat breed. You should choose to buy goats in places with good reputation, clear origin, and expertise such as Goat and Rabbit Research Center in Ba Vi (Hanoi), breeding centers, plants under the Department of Agriculture and Development. rural development, breeding institute, other big goat farms ...

Choose a female goat breed:

- Appearance: Choose goats with beautiful appearance, broaden body, deep chest, healthy body balance, soft skin, shiny fur. The breasts are enlarged, well balanced, the nipples are long and brought forward with many floating blood vessels in the breast

- Fertility: The parity interval is steady, the number of children born, the survival rate is high.

- Growth ability: choose animals with a higher growth rate than others in the herd at the time of birth, at 6 months of age, at mating, and at the age of the first calving.

Choose a male goat breed:

Choose males with a beautiful appearance, a harmonious combination of head and neck, a well-proportioned body, strong four legs, two perfectly uniform fluids, agility, good aggressiveness.

Goat food

The feed for goats is very diverse, including shrubs, grasses, naturally growing grass, leaves of trees (chopsticks, jackfruit, bananas, melancholy, acacia, hibiscus ...), agricultural by-products (straw, corn stalks, sugar cane tops, bean curd ...), fruits and vegetables (sweet potatoes, pumpkin, bananas ...), refined foods, mineral foods. Green forage usually accounts for about 55-70% of the goat's diet.

In your farm you can grow some food crops for goats such as Elephant Grass, Grouse Grass, Ruzi Grass, Acacia, Giant Tea Tree, Indigo Leaf, Sugar Cane, Hibiscus, Jackfruit Leaves ... and other foods such as composting with urea, fermenting some types of forage, corn fermentation after collecting corn, silage for grass ...

Goats have an exceptionally low water requirement, the lowest of any ruminant. However, if the ambient temperature is 20-40oC, the demand for water increases. So we need to create conditions for the goats to drink more water, especially the female goats with milk, then the milk yield will be higher.

You should pay attention that each different type of goat will have different nutritional needs, different diets: milking female goat, dry female goat, male goat, gilts ...

During the breeding process, you need to take care of the goats in each stage and pay attention to the diseases that are commonly acquired in order to promptly cure and avoid loss in breeding.

Monitoring the health of the goats every day, do not feed the goats wet, rain-contaminated, muddy food. Give the goats clean water with a little salt added.

Clean barns, playgrounds, troughs, drink every day, disinfect livestock barns every 2 weeks.

Periodically remove helminths and vaccines to prevent infectious diseases for goats such as foot-and-mouth disease, beans, septicemia ...