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You don't have to find a farm to find a goat these days. Goats have become popular on hobby farms and even in suburban backyards for fleece, for milk, and just as pets. Goats are known for their easy-keeping qualities and delightful personalities, and what's easier to keep than a goat? A miniature goat! Including Pygmy Goats, Nigerian Dwarfs, Mini-Myotonics, Miniature Silky Fainting Goats, Miniature Dairy Goats, Pygoras, and Nigoras, mini goats have all of the traits that fanciers love about full-sized goat breeds in a compact size. City dwellers can even enjoy the companionship of a miniature goat - or two! In The Mini Goat Guide, experienced goat keeper and author Sue Weaver brings readers the most comprehensive and current information about selecting and caring for miniature goats.



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Sue Weaver

Sue began writing professionally in 1969 when her first article was published in The Western Horseman magazine. Since then she's written hundreds of published articles, first specializing in horse magazines, then publications affiliated with Hobby Farms magazine. She's also written 13 books for mainline publishing houses: four in the Hobby Farms series and a standalone book about miniature goats for CompanionHouse Books (a.k.a. Bowtie Press, i-5 Publishing, and Lumina Press) ; seven for Storey Publishing, including Storey's Guide to Raising Meat Goats written under her pseudonym, Maggie Sayer; and a stunning new goat book for for Princeton University Press. All relate to livestock or poultry including pigs, goats, sheep, cattle, chickens, donkeys, llamas, and alpacas. Nowadays she writes and self-publishes ebooks. She is a self-taught writer.Sue was a horse-obsessed child and used her allowance, babysitting money, and berry picking income to buy her first horse when she was 12 years old; 61 years later she's still going strong. Her hobbies include compiling picture pedigrees of her horses and studying equine (horse) , caprine (goat) , and ovine (sheep) behavior. Sue lives on a 29-acre property in the southern Ozarks, along with her husband of 45 years and a huge animal family composed of horses, full-size and miniature; a donkey; a llama; Miniature Cheviot and Katahdin sheep; Nubian, Alpine, LaMancha, Nigerian Dwarf, MiniMancha, MiniMyotonic, and mixed breed goats; a tame razorback hog; chickens; guinea fowl; a passel of dogs, most of which are former rescues; and a feral cat colony. The money she earns from writing is used to support her animals. Thank you for buying her books!



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