Empowering Goat Owners, Improving Herd Health – Holistically!
Holistic Goat Care Education, Resources and Courses to Combat Fear with Information
Welcome to The Holistic Goat, a website dedicated to goat owners wanting to learn more about a holistic approach! From learning about how to use herbal remedies for goats to how to build up your herd to prevent illness entirely, this website contains resources that will get you there.
Holistic goat care embodies more than just a remedy or single approach; it encompasses all aspects of our goat management and invites us to look at how every part of our goat’s environment–food, housing, emotional health, physical health and mental health–plays a role in contributing to health or disease. As a result, small tweaks in our management can reap large rewards in overall health.
When our goats are healthy, we can replace the worry in our experience with joy.
In my teaching, I aim to dismantle the fear-based methodology we have learned for so long. Instead, we can be empowered through informational resources and experiential knowledge to walk fearlessly and confidently in our goat care walk.
It is my heartfelt desire that you can take something meaningful from this site and apply it directly to not just a happier, healthier goat herd, but also a confident, fearless and empowered you.
So let’s get started. Take a look around at both the free resources and paid courses to see how you can transform your goat walk and your own life.
About Me
I’m Megan Kutchman of Little Avalon Farm, where I have raised Nigerian Dwarf goats, livestock guardian dogs, a variety of poultry and four mostly homeschooled kids since 2008.
My emphasis has been on natural remedies and herbal medicine, though my journey began wholly conventionally. In 2018, I finally completely ditched every conventional remedy and moved to a 100% herbally managed herd.
My herd looks great, stays healthy and requires almost no regular maintenance on my part.
This website is dedicated to teaching the methods I have learned in a way that empowers readers to study deeply and, most importantly, trust their own intuition as they walk in harmony with the animals in their care.
In over 16 years of raising goats, my only regret is that it took me this long to reach my goal of being completely herbal. May this website help you leap forward and achieve that goal quickly. ❤
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The Holistic Goatkeep’s Herbal Arsenal
Learn step-by-step herbal protocols and holistic management in this complete herbal care course based on the herbs and systems I have utilized in my own 100% herbal herd. Go shopping, create recipes for each major body system and learn exactly when and how to use them.
A Foundational Approach to Natural Goat Care
Learn the foundations of care from a holistic perspective that takes environment, nutrition and emotional health into consideration. Outfit home and barn with complete goat care supply lists, learn the ins and outs of nutrition and empower your goat walk with a solid foundation.
What Makes This Site Different?
For too long, goat owners have been taught by fear. Our teachers want us to avoid bad outcomes rather than seek good ones. It isn’t intentional, but it is pervasive.
Because no one goes on Facebook to write a post like, “All was good today. No one got sick or died,” it can seem as though only bad things happen to goats.
This leads to even more fear-based management, because we want so badly to never experience all the things we see online.
But fear is a terrible motivator. It makes us do things that don’t make sense, like separating buck kids at 2-3 weeks old because we’re told they’ll impregnate the herd, or treating a case of the sniffles with antibiotics whose side effects can be vastly worse than what they’re intended to treat.
What would it look like to walk fearlessly, joyfully and confidently among your goats? How would that change not just your time with your goats, but all the time you spend worrying about them when you’re doing other things?
Goat care is simple. Humans complicate it. I am passionate about empowering you to overcome that fear and worry and replace it with actionable knowledge, accessible resources and a herd you enjoy instead of worry over.
Popular Resources
Meander through dozens of infographics on common health topics, general goat management and how to use more than 20 herbs for goats. Download for your own library or share with others to expand herbal knowledge.
Browse the most common health topics and blog posts in the Blog Index, which lists all topics alphabetically. If you’d prefer to browse through all blog posts in a traditional format, click here to be taken to the blog page. Feel free to suggest topics, too!
When you’re ready to dive deeper, check out the classroom to see available courses and learn how to replicate the almost zero-maintenance results I’ve achieved in my own 100% herbal goat herd. A one-off purchase grants lifetime access to all upgrades!
Read Testimonials
“Everything that I have seen so far of your educational materials, both on this page and on your site, has been hands down the best, most informative, and easiest to understand I have ever encountered, especially concerning goats. Sure, the fact that it also aligns with my own philosophies on care and medicine doesn’t hurt, but it is also well researched without being overwhelming. I don’t know how you find the balance there, but you really have a knack.
Your graphics always reflect the same; easy to read and to find precisely the information you’re looking for, simple yet thorough.
Because of all these factors, I’ve been excited about your course ever since you started talking about it.
Oh, and very important: I don’t think I would have ever dared or bothered to try the mineral buffet without your wealth of information and dedication to dissemination of that info. So glad I found you for that alone, as what a disservice it would be to my goats to not be doing that (I’m ashamed for the time I wasted hem-hawing over it!).”
— Pamela Harmon
We have only owned goats for about a year and a half, and it only made sense that we would raise them how we live as a family – holistically. Even though my husband and I both came from dairy farms, goats felt like brand new territory. Thankfully, we had a great goat mentor in the friend who sold us our starter herd, but I knew I couldn’t bother her ALL the time.
I still feel like I need to pinch myself that I was fortunate enough to find Megan’s group (via my goat mentor) so quickly! I’m used to having to do LOADS of research on my own to figure out all the answers because nobody else seems to ever have good ones (or at least not that align with my beliefs/style).
Megan is my breath of fresh air. I know that whenever I need an answer, I can find what she’s written, and it is the advice I will follow. It has worked every single time so far. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, she announced that she was going to release a course. Now we’ll get great advice all in one place. I am certain I will not be disappointed.
— Denise Brusveen
I hope you enjoy your time here. I hope you find it enriching and empowering. And know that I value each person who visits here. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have questions, suggestions or ideas. If you haven’t already, join our free community on Facebook: The Holistic Goat.