Meat Goats on the Celebrity Dairy Farm

In summer 2005, John Bonitz launched a small new enterprise on the Celebrity Dairy Farm. He bought four meat goats and placed them in a small pasture and woodland. There, visible from the road-front, they browse and forage happily. Their diets are supplemented with high-protein concentrated feed, orchard-grass hay, and minerals. In 2007 and beyond John plans to begin learning intensive pasture management -- to save money on feed costs, and to reduce environmental impact associated with off-farm feed-production. This will involve rotational grazing, grass planting, soil sampling, and forage surveys. Also being considered are woodland-browse management techniques like coppicing. Stay tuned!