Dairy Goat Keeping

NO DATES FOR 2023 DUE TO THE GOAT BARN BUILD, HOWEVER WE ARE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE SMALLER GROUPS/FAMILY GROUPS IF MESSAGED DIRECT.

Maes Mawr, Llanllyfni LL54 6DG

Cost: £95.00 including lunch and a cream tea to end the day.

9.30am - 10.00am - Tea/coffee and welcome

10.00am - 11.15am - An introduction to Keeping Goats

We will talk about breeding and selecting your breed. Deciding how many you want, and the choice to keep males and females. Breeding, general pregnancy care, birthing care. Issues and how to deal with them.

11.15am - 12.45pm - Housing, Dairy, Keeping the Sexes Together

We will talk you through building your own structures, bought ones, and how to select the right site for them, including fencing and ensuring their safety as well as keeping males and females on your smallholding. Meet the goats and see our set up for the dairy.

12.45pm - 1.45pm - Lunch

A chance to have a sit down and enjoy a home cooked lunch with us in the cabin. We can cater for vegetarians, vegans and any food intolerances. Please let us know when you book.

1.45pm - 3.45pm - Legal Requirements, Health Issues and Care

We will cover the legal requirements of keeping goats and their needs and how to identify some health issues. We will discuss the giving of medications and worming, including hoof management and some natural remedies.

You will get the opportunity to hand milk (unless we have had to dry one or more up), and take part in some basic goat care dependant on what they need doing at the time. We will show you some basic handling skills.

3.45pm - 4.30pm - There is a talk about uses for the milk afterwards and show you how to filter and store it afterwards for use. You're welcome to try a small glass of fresh goats milk. We can show you some basic cheese making equipment and explain the choices behind our product Clean Goat Co.

4.00pm - 4.30pm - Afternoon cream tea and an opportunity to talk with each other and ask any further questions.

Booking A Place

Because this year we are building our Goat Barn we don't feel we can offer group courses this year. I will however possibly be able to accommodate individuals and or family groups. So please if you are in the North Wales area and you'd love to visit email me direct and I will be able to set a date for you on an individual basis.

Accommodation

We do not offer accommodation here however a number of smallholders and farms around us do. If you want to make a weekend of it please check out these places. Please note if you are unable to tie in a course on an advertised date with accommodation please email us. We are happy to put a workshop on for you on a date that suits. Please confirm this with us at the same time as arranging accommodation, Thank you.

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What To Wear

Please bring suitable wet weather clothing, including wellies. We cannot predict the weather in advance, we are living on the boundary to the mountain range of Snowdonia and it can be subject to sudden changes. We will still be outside even if it rains. Also just incase bring sun cream and a hat should we have sun! You may want to consider a change of shoes for inside the cabin and for travelling home in, just in case.

If you'd like to bring a note book feel free however we will provide print outs of the day for you to keep. We welcome any photographs to be taken. Please enjoy yourself.

Cancellation Policy

In the unlikely event that we need to cancel the workshop we will offer you an alternative set of dates to choose from, if these are not suitable to you we will refund you in full. However, should you need to cancel we request that you do so no less than 7 days notice to the course date. We are only a small business and we will have already placed the order for the food for that date. We reserve the right to make a full charge for any cancellations made with less than 7 days notice.

We are happy to accommodate smaller groups, if you as a couple or family are on holiday locally and you would like to spend the day with us please give me a call directly on 07766 028 202. We are able and happy to accommodate smaller groups but we need 3 days notice to arrange the catering.