80 PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 



but there is no practical objection to shearing before 

 kidding, provided proper care be exercised. 



HANDLING OF KIDS. 



There are various methods in use of handling 

 the young kids, and all of them are intended to save 

 as large a percentage of increase as possible with the 

 least possible expense. Almost every man who has 

 handled goats has some individual idea which ex- 

 perience has taught him. The locality and surround- 

 ings of the flock make a vast difference in the way 

 they should be kidded. The method which works 

 best with fifty or one hundred does in a fenced brush 

 pasture in Oregon or Iowa, would be useless with a 

 flock of a thousand or fifteen hundred in the moun- 

 tains of Nevada or New Mexico, where there is often 

 no corral to hold the goats. 



With a bunch of from fifty, to two hundred and 

 fifty, and a shed big enough to hold the entire lot, it 

 is not difficult to raise a very large percentage of kids. 

 If the does are kept in a ten or twenty-acre pasture, 

 they should be allowed to run out and take care of 

 themselves as much as possible. The doe may drop 

 her kid wherever she may happen to be, and she will 

 almost invariably take care of it and coax it to the 

 shed at night. The refusal of a young doe to own 

 her kid must be overcome, especially if the weather 

 is unfavorable. The mother must be caught and the 



