DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



CARE OF ANGORAS. 



FEXCIXG. 



Goats cannot stand close confinement and are impatient of restraint. It takes 

 a well-built fence to turn them. The ordinary worm fence will not do, as they easily 

 find places to climb up. They do not jump <--lean over a fence, but seek for some 

 place to climb up or crawl through. A woven-wire or board fence 4% feet high or 

 a straight-rail fence 5% feet high will turn goats, 



SHELTER AXD PEXS. 



Goats are better penned up at night. For this purpose they should have a dry 

 yard to themselves, with a roomy shed open on the two sides away from the pre- 

 vailing winds. Dryness both underfoot and overhead is very important to ward off 

 rheumatism and to keep their fleece clean. They need lots of shed-room and fresh 



Angora does leaving tbe kidding-pen, showing bridge to keep young kids in. 



air. In stormy and wet weather they should have access to the shed, and will be 

 sure to run in out of the rain. Goats will find their way home to shelter at night 

 by themselves usually. 



FEEDING. 



Leaves in summer and soft twigs in winter are the natural food of the goat, but 

 in these northern latitudes Angoras will have to be fed during the winter. Oat- 

 straw and clover or alfalfa hay are good. They will require very little grain or 

 water. The grain should be fed before and after kidding. The water and hay 

 supplied must be perfectly clean and unsoiled by trampling, etc., or these fastidious 

 animals will refuse it. Winter feeding is cheapened by cutting down high trees for 

 the goats to browse on. 



Goats require access to a lump of rock salt at all times, unless they can get 

 salt water, as on the Coast. 



