Swampy & Kids

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

10/01/2026

🐐 Before you buy goat #1, build the system.

Fencing that actually holds them. Shelter that keeps them dry. A mineral program, a parasite plan, and a way to know if they're thriving or just surviving.

Most people buy the goats first and figure out the system later — usually at 2 AM in the rain with a sick animal.

Working Goats 101 is the system-first approach: foundational husbandry for the targeted grazing herd, in 73 pages.

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

09/29/2026

🌿 Help launch chemical-free land clearing in Alamance County 🌿

Swampy & Kids is a local startup with a simple idea: let goats do what chemicals do. Brush, kudzu, poison ivy, invasives — cleared without poisoning the land, the water, or the goats.

To do it right, I'm joining Goats On The Go and doing their professional training this spring — plus hands-on work of my own: FAMACHA certification and field time with a working goat crew in NC.

But medical leave from my day job wiped out my training fund. I need to raise about $2,600 for the membership and travel, and I'm asking the community to help sponsor it.

🌿 $25+ Pasture Pal — public thank-you
🌿 $100+ Herd Helper — your name on our trailer and website
🌿 $250+ Founding Sponsor — all of the above, plus a signed Working Goats 101 and a farm visit once the herd is working

Local folks first — this business will be working your fence lines. Message the page or comment if you want in. Thank you. — Andrew "Swampy" Goodwin

07/26/2026