Swampy & Kids

10/19/2026

Weekend reading for goat people. 📕🐐

Working Goats 101: Foundational Goat Husbandry for the Targeted Grazing Herd — now on Kindle and in paperback.

Kindle $9.99: https://a.co/d/0avpiAVJ
Paperback $14.99: https://a.co/d/0eFwaXdN

10/16/2026

State Fair week in Raleigh, and if you can't be ringside, this is the next best thing: the commercial doe and wether classes, being judged live.

I watch a lot of goat judging. Call it homework. You learn what a judge rewards, what good commercial structure actually looks like standing in the ring, and you come home with a sharper eye for your own animals.

Worth your time if goats are your business — or if you're building toward it.

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— Andrew, Swampy & Kids

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10/16/2026

🐐 Hands on hips, eyes on the backbone: body condition scoring in 30 seconds.

A fluffy coat hides a thin goat. BCS — feeling over the ribs, spine, and hips — tells you the truth your eyes miss. Score monthly, adjust feed before problems start.

Working Goats 101 covers condition scoring plus the full foundations: hooves, minerals, parasites, kidding prep.

Kindle $9.99: https://a.co/d/0avpiAVJ
Paperback $14.99: https://a.co/d/0eFwaXdN

10/13/2026

My book Working Goats 101 is FREE on Kindle all this week (Tue–Sat). This is the crash course behind everything Swampy & Kids is building — if you want to understand what we're doing and why, start here.

WORKING GOATS 101: Foundational Goat Husbandry for the Targeted Grazing Herd

10/13/2026

🐐 Deworming on a calendar is how you breed resistant worms.

The evidence-based approach: FAMACHA scoring, f***l egg counts, targeted selective treatment. Treat the animals that need it, leave the rest — and keep your dewormers working for years instead of months.

It's all in Working Goats 101 — parasite management that actually holds up in the field.

Kindle $9.99: https://a.co/d/0avpiAVJ
Paperback $14.99: https://a.co/d/0eFwaXdN

10/10/2026

Starting a grazing herd? Read this first.

Most new graziers learn herd health the expensive way — one sick animal, one failed containment, one lost contract at a time. Working Goats 101 packs the foundations into 73 pages so you don't have to.

Kindle $9.99: https://a.co/d/0avpiAVJ
Paperback $14.99: https://a.co/d/0eFwaXdN

10/07/2026

🐐 Your goats are probably mineral-deficient and you'd never know it.

Dull coat. Poor fertility. Weak kids. Slow growth. All of it can trace back to minerals — and most bagged feeds don't cover a working herd.

Working Goats 101 walks through building a real mineral program: what they need, why loose beats block, and how to read what your herd is telling you.

Kindle $9.99: https://a.co/d/0avpiAVJ
Paperback $14.99: https://a.co/d/0eFwaXdN

10/04/2026

🐐 WORKING GOATS 101 is available now.

Foundational goat husbandry for the targeted grazing herd — hooves, minerals, parasites, condition scoring, kidding prep. The book I needed when I was starting out, written from the operator's side.

Kindle $9.99: https://a.co/d/0avpiAVJ
Paperback $14.99: https://a.co/d/0eFwaXdN

10/04/2026

A bored goat is a destructive goat. 🐐

Goats are browsers, not grazers — built to move, climb, strip bark, and investigate everything. Park them on a flat empty lot with nothing to do and they'll remodel your barn, your fence, and your patience.

Give them browse. Give them a job. A working goat is a happy goat.

That's the heart of Working Goats 101: match the animal to the work it was built for.

Available now on Amazon — print and Kindle.

Real goats. Real work. Real responsibility.
— Andrew M. Goodwin
T/A Swampy & Kids

10/04/2026

Your fence is your first goat. 🐐

Before Goat #1 arrives, walk your fence line like a goat trying to escape — because that's exactly what they'll do. Push on every post. Look for the low spot, the loose wire, the gate that doesn't quite latch.

Goats don't test fences occasionally. They test them daily, with creativity.

That idea became one of the foundations of Working Goats 101: containment before animals, always.

Working Goats 101: Foundational Goat Husbandry for the Targeted Grazing Herd is available now on Amazon — print and Kindle.

Real goats. Real work. Real responsibility.
— Andrew M. Goodwin
T/A Swampy & Kids