#backyard goats

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little friends, 2015

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backyard goats, 2015

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baby goat, 2015

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Nigerian Dwarf goats are like if you took a goat, made it into Disney 2D animation, and then ook it out again

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we're both enjoying "A Natural History of Transition" by Callum Angus, but in very different ways. Thankfully she didn't have the chance to do any damage. bad goat!

Anyway I'm about three stories in and I just want to highly recommend this book to y'all. Short stories about magically realistic trans characters! I fall in love just a little bit with each character that has graced the page with their fantastical and gorgeous representation. I haven't read a book of short stories in a long time and I'm hooked on this book. And after a long while of difficult gender feelings lately, reading it has been a really affirming experience. A reminder of why representation is so important.

You should give it a read!! You can order it from Metonymy Press.

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People sometimes ask me, 'What are your favorite goat books?' I do recommend my own (The Backyard Goat Book) but apart from those, my favorite goat book is Jennie P. Grant's 'City Goats; the Goat Justice League's Guide to Backyard Goat Keeping' (Skipstone; 2012). Even if you don't live in the city you'll love this fun and useful goat keeping guide. It's written in an informative yet lighthearted manner that keeps me smiling as I read it and the information between its covers is first-rate. The plans for her combination goat shed/chicken house make me wish we had this structure in our yard. I love this book. I really do.

Quote seen in Sue Weaver's new title Goat Resources 2013: Your Free Guide to All Things Goaty on the World Wide Web

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Stew gets a close-up.

[mountaineersbooksblog]

Get Your Goat

(review of City Goats by Culture magazine)

With backyard dairy goats now a bona fide “thing” in Seattle, other cities such as Oakland, San Diego, and Denver have gone pro-goat as well.  And while there’s no shortage of books on goat keeping, City Goats: The Goat Justice League’s Guide to Backyard Goat Keeping (Skipstone Books 2012; $17.95) by Jennie Palches Grant fills a void in the genre.  Thoroughly researched and utterly engaging, Grant’s book reads as half primer, half narrative.  As the pioneering founder of the Goat Justice League in Seattle, which took on the local city council in 2007 to get dairy goats classified as “small animals” so they’d be allowed legal residence, she covers every conceivable aspect of owning a backyard goat.  These include the initial consideration phase and practical concerns to constructing a stylish shed and milking stanchion; diet, breeding, and kidding; milking how-tos;  hoof trimming; health issues; how to hire a backup milker/goat-sitter; making fresh cheese; and a detailed “Goaty Resources” guide.  Illustrated with enchanting photographs by Harley Soltes, City Goats is an entertaining, educational handbook for anyone who imagines keeping goats, regardless of where they live.

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