Ranked in the top 2% of podcasts globally. Are you serious about raising goats but tired of advice that doesn't hold up in real life? Are you adding goats to your ranch or homestead and realizing they require different infrastructure, nutrition, and management than other livestock? Do you want fencing, feeding, and production systems that work under pressure? You're in the right place. I'm Millie Bradshaw, Animal Scientist and rancher. I grew up in the commercial cattle world, earned a Master's Degree in Animal Science, and now run a forage-based meat goat operation integrated with cattle in the high desert. We've built the infrastructure, refined the genetics, managed the forage, and learned firsthand what works — and what fails — when you're responsible for animals in a demanding enviro
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Ranked in the top 2% of podcasts globally. Are you serious about raising goats but tired of advice that doesn't hold up in real life? Are you adding goats to your ranch or homestead and realizing they require different infrastructure, nutrition, and management than other livestock? Do you want fencing, feeding, and production systems that work under pressure?
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Recent episodes include "132 | Why Goats Are the Best Weed Management Tool on Your Ranch" (19 October 2026, 14 minutes), "131 | Adding Goats to a Cattle Ranch: The Behavior Realities" (12 October 2026, 13 minutes), and "130 | How Goats See the World: The Biology of Goat Vision" (5 October 2026, 14 minutes).
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Goat Wise | Meat Goats, Feeding Goats, Goat Fencing, Livestock Management is an education show with 132 episodes published.
132 | Why Goats Are the Best Weed Management Tool on Your Ranch
Oct 19, 202614 min
Today we're talking about how goats eat what they eat. We'll cover the anatomy of their mouth, how they select forage, what they do to a pasture that cattle and sheep simply can't replicate, and what all of that means...
131 | Adding Goats to a Cattle Ranch: The Behavior Realities
Oct 12, 202613 min
Last week we talked about how goats see the world. Today we're talking about what that means when you have goats on a cattle ranch. The behavior realities, what you can actually control, what to cull for, and how to set...
130 | How Goats See the World: The Biology of Goat Vision
Oct 5, 202614 min
Today we're talking about how goats actually see the world. Horizontal pupils, panoramic field of view, a reflective layer in the eye that makes them glow at night, and color vision that runs closer to red-green...
129 | Electric Netting in Winter: Why We Still Need It and How We Set It Up
Sep 28, 202616 min
Today we're talking about electric netting in winter. Why we use it, which fence types we use and why, the setup details that actually matter when the ground is frozen, and whether virtual fence is going to replace it...
128 | The 2026 Meat Goat Kidding Report: Numbers Are In and They're Good
Sep 21, 202620 min
Today I'm giving you the 2026 commercial meat goat kidding report. We'll go through the numbers, how they're calculated, how they compare to previous years and to industry benchmarks, what the death loss stories are...
127 | Iodine, Navel Dipping, Goiter, and Mineral: What Happened When I Didn't Follow My Own Advice
Sep 14, 202612 min
This year we stopped routine iodine navel dipping on newborn kids, something we'd been testing for a couple seasons and finally committed to fully. And then at about five to six weeks of age, some of the kids showed up...
126 | Wintering Goats on Brush: The Feed Cost Strategy We're About to Test
Sep 7, 202615 min
Two weeks ago, I gave you the field report on what we're seeing in the sagebrush with the virtual fence. Last week I covered the biology, why goats eat brush, how the MFO enzyme system builds tolerance, what Cedar Eater...
125 | Why Goats Eat Brush: The Biology Behind What We're Seeing in the Sagebrush
Aug 31, 202612 min
Last week I gave you the field report on what we're seeing with the virtual fence in the sagebrush. Today I want to answer the question I get asked all the time: When will goats eat brush, and does season matter? What...
124 | Virtual Fence in Action: A NoFence Progress Report from the Sagebrush
Aug 24, 202616 min
Back in Episode 114, I told you our NoFence collars had arrived and what we were hoping they'd open up. Today I want to give you the first real field report: What's working, what we had to work through, what the...
123 | Goats Don't Have to Be So Hard; Smoke Ridge Goats Proved It
Aug 17, 202616 min
Last week in Episode 122 I gave you the framework: The two phases every goat herd goes through and the three strategies for building toward what you actually want. Today is the story behind why that framework matters...
122 | Building a Goat Herd Strategically: Two Phases, Three Strategies, and Why Herd Growth Projections Are Almost Always Wrong
Aug 10, 202616 min
Back in Episode 105 I talked about why people quit goats, and genetics was one of the two big reasons. Today is the follow-up: not why genetics matter, but what to actually do about it. I want to walk through the two...
121 | We Sold Our Cows and Started Over with Dexters: Improving Our Multi-Species Grazing System
Aug 3, 202618 min
I know this is a goat podcast. But I would be doing you a disservice if I didn't tell you what we're doing with our cattle herd, because it's part of the same system, and the philosophy behind the decision is exactly...
119 | Selling Meat Goats at the Sale Barn: How to Get the Best Price
Jul 20, 202616 min
A couple of weeks ago in Episode 117 I talked about how our market evolved away from the sale barn. Today I want to talk about why the auction can be a great place for meat goat producers to start selling their goats...
118 | Summer Heat Management in Goats: What I've Learned and What I Did Wrong
Jul 13, 202613 min
Today we're talking about heat management in goats, the basics that actually matter, what I learned during one brutal kidding season, some coat science that surprised me, and a practical tool I wish I'd had sooner. I’m...
117 | Selling Meat Goats: From Sale Barn Auctions to a Waitlist
Jul 6, 202613 min
Today I want to tell you how our goat market evolved from sale barn auctions to direct-to-consumer meat sales to something I stumbled into sort of by accident that turned out to be a much better fit for the goats we've...
116 | Early vs Late Banding: The Management Problems We Solved by Castrating Early
Jun 29, 202612 min
Back in Episode 46, I talked about early versus late banding of buck kids. We went through the full debate, the urinary calculi argument, the research, all of it, and I reported on a small test group we'd banded at...
114 | Drought, Hay Prices, and Why We Bought Virtual Fence
Jun 15, 202611 minS0
<p>Our NoFence collars showed up on Friday, shipped all the way from Norway, and they've been sitting in boxes since they got here. Today I want to talk about why we finally pulled the trigger on virtual fence after...
113 | Kidding Season Week One: Forty Does, No Assists
Jun 8, 202613 minS0
<p >We are one week into kidding season. Forty does have kidded, seventy-eight kids on the ground, two sets of quads, four sets of triplets, and we have not assisted on a single birth. Not one. Today I want to tell you...
112 | Kidding Management: Building the Right System for Your Operation, PART 3 of 3
Jun 1, 202613 minS0
<p >We've spent the last two weeks on how our kidding system evolved and what it took to reshape the herd through selection pressure. Today is Part 3, and this one is for you. We're going to walk through the factors...
111 | Kidding Management: Selection Pressure and Behavior Reshaping, PART 2 of 3
May 25, 202613 minS0
<p >Last week we started this series with the story of how our kidding system evolved — from show goats and January barn kidding through commercial Boers, and then the Spanish goats arriving and refusing to work in the...
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