82 PRACTICAL ANGORA GOAT RAISING. 



hay, or if that is not possible, they should be herded 

 Dear by for a few hours. It has been our experience 

 that most of the kids will come between the hours of 

 ten in the morning and four in the afternoon. The 

 more does which one can pick out in the morning the 

 better it is, for the doe, after dropping her kid, is 

 allowed to stay with it the rest of the day and all 

 night. In this way she learns to know it. If one has 

 hay to feed the doe, so that she may be left with her 

 kid for one or two days, it is a great advantage. 



After all the does have been selected which can be 

 found, still some will be overlooked, and they will 

 go out on the range with the rest. The best way to 

 handle these is to have the herder make a straight 

 drive to a certain point where the feed is good, and 

 then stay around this one place, allowing the kids to 

 come within as small a radius as possible without 

 starving the goats. If it is necessary, quite a dis- 

 tance can be covered in this way, and yet the kids 

 will not be scattered over a large section of the 

 country. 



As a kid is dropped, the doe should be allowed to 

 remain with her kid and take care of it until evening. 

 The herd will gradually feed from them, but it should 

 be kept as near as possible to protect the kids from 

 wild animals. Towards evening one must go out 

 and gather up the kids and drive the mothers to the 

 corral. The large herd should be driven home in 



