How to learn about goat farming

I learned of a girl just graduating from high school who want to be a goat farmer! What advice can folks offer to her?

First, make friends with other goat farmers.

Second, make friends with the local farm store employees that know about goats.

Third, learn what goats are being raised in the local area and buy the goats there. Learn more about that breed.

Fourth, get to know the local librarian that knows about goat books.

The last bit of tidbit information is to learn how to dehorn and castrate goats from one or more of those goat farmer friends.

It also doesn't hurt to learn about growing great pasture plants and soil health to help those plants.

One more tidbit, learn how to sprout grain for winter feed.

Thanks! Good advice - I'll pass this along to her!

You might provide her with a most excellnt book, Backyard Dairy Goats, by Kate Downham.

When I kept goats I found the old Arabic proverb "A person without problems should get a goat" to be very true. I plan to try again  but this time I am going overboard with very hot electrified high tensile fence.  Sheep would likely be  easier and they have lower shelter requirements.  A sheep in the rain is happy, a goat is NOT.  So if she wants to rotate them around then she needs a portable goat house on top of their winter home, so she will need a tractor to move shelter around.

Not saying this to be a downer, but to set her up for success.

I would recommend to actually get few goats and see how it goes and adjust accordingly. Other people's experience may be irrelevant to her setup, environment, expectations, etc. It's easy to overspend without trying first.

Thanks, all - good advice. She's going to college this fall, not sure where.