Ladang Fatima is a Malaysian farm for the breeding and sale of local goats.

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What to do when your goats get an itch?

Goats, just like us, get an itch once in a while. And when they do, they rub their bodies against some rough surface. Much like us, when we get an itch at a spot that is not easily reachable by our fingers.
 
We let our goats loose for a few hours everyday. They play about in [...]


Our stock of pokok turi

I have written about our attempts here and again in Part 2 to seek natural feed for our goats. One alternative we are looking at is to grow pokok turi.
  
As the Kebun pointed out in his comments, the turi tree does not produce much leaves. One tree would be hardly enough to feed a [...]


Starting some Ayam Kampung

Many health conscious Malaysians are shying away from the commercial chickens and seeking to buy “kampong chicken”, instead.
 
To partly tap this market and partly to stop our families from eating the commercial chickens, we have started a small brood of ayam kampong.
 
We bought the first batch of 50 tiny chickens on the 3rd December 08 [...]


You want to venture into goat farming? Maybe you should do the following first. Part 1

 
Deep in thought. Is he planning a goat farm?
Source: Google Images

Chapter 1 – Overview
 
It has been said that if we follow our passions, the money will come. Yes, I think this is true. Still it would be even better to prepare ourselves first.
 
Before embarking on any venture, we have to have a feasibility study [...]