GOAT Keeper
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Key Responsibilities of a Goat Keeper:
- Animal Welfare: Providing appropriate food, water, and shelter. This includes maintaining dry, draught-free housing, ensuring adequate space (approx.
per goat), and protecting them from injury and disease.
- Health and Hygiene: Monitoring the herd for illness, managing parasite control (worming), trimming hooves, and coordinating with veterinarians.
- Administrative Duties: Registering as a keeper, maintaining a, holding register, and reporting movements and stock numbers to authorities (e.g., the Central Register of Sheep and Goats or IOMEID) to aid disease control.
- Herd Management: Managing grazing, breeding, kidding, and sometimes milking.
- Security: Maintaining sturdy fencing to keep goats contained and protected from predators.
