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The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More Kindle Edition

by Janet Hurst (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Learn how to select your animal, understand the breed, and how to use the products it will supply in this book written by a goat farmer for goat farmers.

Goats are the hottest animal today to raise for hobby farmers, commercial farmers, and members of both 4-H and FFA. But using the products from a goat requires special skills, handling, and recipes. Here's The Whole Goat Handbook, chock full of recipes, crafting projects, advice, and more. Cooking with goat meat requires special, adapted instructions because the meat is so strong in flavor; there's no devoted goat-meat cookbook on the market—until now! Here as well are recipes for making cheese with goat milk as well as goat-milk soap. And for those raising goats for fiber, here are hard-won recommendations on crafting, knitting, and weaving. This book shows you how to do all this—and more.

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Among hobby and commercial farmers alike, goats are today s hottest trending animals. But correctly using the products from these popular ungulates requires special skills and know-how. With The Whole Goat Handbook, author and veteran goatkeeper Janet Hurst provides a wealth of useful advice, not to mention scads of proven recipes and crafting projects, to help the reader make the most of their adventure as a goatkeeper. Nearly 50 recipes expertly guide readers through the processes of making popular goat cheeses, goat-milk soaps, meat dishes, and even delicious accompaniments. In addition, Hurst offers a dozen crafting ideas that utilize goat fiber for knitting, weaving, and felting projects. The recipes and projects presented here, together with the author s entertaining primers on goat ownership and discussions of raising goats for dairy, meat, and fiber, not to mention a wealth of photographs and patterns, comprise an essential resource for anyone considering goat ownership, as well as those who have already embarked on this richly rewarding path.

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Among both hobby and commercial farmers, goats are today's hottest trending animals. With "The Whole Goat Handbook," author Janet Hurst provides a wealth of useful advice and more than 50 recipes and crafting projects that help the reader make the most of their adventure as a goatkeeper. From cheeses, meat dishes, and soaps, to knitting, weaving, and felting projects, this completely illustrated guide is an essential resource for anyone considering goat ownership, as well as those who have already embarked on this rewarding path.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00IREPZNS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Voyageur Press; First edition (January 15, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 31046 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #640,610 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #102 in Candle Making (Kindle Store)
- #107 in Animal Husbandry (Kindle Store)
- #152 in Soap Making (Books)

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Janet Hurst grew up in "America's Hometown;" Hannibal, Missouri. Frequent trips to her great grandmother's farm are treasured memories for Janet. Those special moments of collecting eggs, getting water from a well, and finding new born kittens in a hayloft inspired her to own her own small farm, which had to include a few goats. From the moment she brought the first one home, she was hooked and has been making cheese, spinning, and weaving for over 25 years.
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HonestOmnivore

A really useful reference for a goat owner OR a FRIEND of a goat owner!

Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2013

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I've had goats for less than a year, and as a dedicated nerd I've read all sorts of books about their care, and dairy etc... I'm not sure why I picked this up but it's a really nice source of information on the various things you can do with your goat and goat by-products. I have two Nigerian Dwarf goats, so I'm mostly interested in the dairy/cheese side of things - but the recipes for goat meat (ohhhh sad!) have worked great with my venison. I also find the sections on crafting interesting and I've decided to venture into so soap making! There is more than I care for in here about knitting and felting - but that's my problem not the books! Plus after reading through it, I've saved the cashmere (undercoat) this spring so I have a nice bundle of the stuff to use either for felting or I could spin it*.

Good: Clean layout
Beautiful Photography
Easy to follow directions
Lots of ideas will be generated as you read through this!

Bad: Too much felting (just me?)
I'd like more cheese recipes - some cheese are pictured but there isn't a corresponding recipe :(

*Most likely it will take up a place in the garage and terrify whomever has to clear out my house when I die - surely they'll think it's a mummified cat or something!

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Cindy

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Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024

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This book has taught me a couple of things. Very happy with it.🤗

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014

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Fun book with lots of recipes, crafts and fun things to do with goat products.

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024

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A very great book to have on hand.

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2014

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I have had goats in the past, but it has been awhile until I recently got back into them. This book has been a wealth of information to remind me about certain items related to raising and caring for goats. There are also several great recipes in the book for the use of the excess milk. This is a must read for anyone wanting to get into goats or for the seasoned professional to keep as a great reference tool!!

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Miranda Beam

I could never hurt one of my sweet girls.

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2015

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I purchased this book to help me with a few new ideas for my goat milk. I've tried several and it's all been a hit. The information in the book is interesting. It covers how to cook goat as well as how to use the hair for crafting. However I will just stick to the goat milk chapters. I could never hurt one of my sweet girls.

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indyj

SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2022

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Lots of beginner info and resources with some ideas and a few recipes Not what I would great, but fair for a engineers get interested in or avoid. City folks think listening to country music makes them "country" but is is a lie. People living in the city could read and infanticide maybe?

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Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023

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great help for me

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Danny B.

Lots of good info for first time goat owners

Reviewed in Canada on August 23, 2017

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My parents loved this gift as they have bought some goats for their farm and didn't know a whole lot about them. They're definitely more likely to read a book then get on the internet to do research so it was a no brainer! Lots of good info inside!