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Urinating on Milk Stand

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Classified Ad I Had To Share

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How fast those bucks can move.

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Our two bucks escaped on September 16th, 145 days ago, and were in with our 29 mature does for 5 minutes. We did not start any intentional breeding until October 6th. In the past two days we have had…Continue

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Info for Canadian Breeders

My Provincial Goat Association just sent out this info about changes to Import Requirements for small ruminants. If any of you have looked into importing NDGs from the US you know that it's basically impossible to import does because of the Scrapie requirements, and now it looks like similar requirements are going to be put in place for bucks. As the article states, fewer than 25 US goat producers would meet the requirements, and, although I don't actually know, it's doubtful that any of those…See More

May 14

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Marin Waddell replied to Misfits Farm's discussion Different types of yogurt in the group Making Dairy Products

"I tried some kefir that a friend made from cow's milk, but I haven't made it yet with my own. It was a flavour that would take some getting used to, but something that I'd definitely like to try making. "

Apr 27

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"One of my does is nursing two of last year's kids, neither of which are hers. Crazy goat."

Apr 27

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Marin Waddell replied to Misfits Farm's discussion Different types of yogurt in the group Making Dairy Products

"There are quite a few varieties of starter culture available and each one makes a slightly different kind of yogurt. One particular one that we tried last year had no "tangy-ness" to the flavour, and was the consistency of white glue. Yum…"

Apr 26

Marin Waddell posted a status

"Mid-April and I STILL have to worry about hypothermic newborns. Stupid weather."

Apr 18

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Juliana Goodwin replied to Marin Waddell's discussion Urinating on Milk Stand

"One of mine went through a pooping phase (where she pooped on the stand every day). But she had stomach upset from too much rich food at kidding. She kidded a lot sooner than I thought and I was weaning her onto the alfalfa but…"

Apr 16

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Urinating on Milk Stand

Does anyone have any suggestions for a doe that insists on peeing on the milking stand every.time.she's.on.it? I've had does do it occasionally, usually when they were annoyed about something, but Aphrodite seems to have decide that it's just the Thing To Do. We milked her last year and she didn't have this issue.See More

Apr 13

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Marin Waddell liked Rachel Whetzel's discussion They're HERE!!

Mar 19

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Sunning

"That looks SO MUCH like my little farm does right now. Got dumped on again today! It's going to be one snowy Easter this year! There's been a LOT of shoveling out so I can open gates and doors. You goats seem to…"

Mar 18

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Margaret Langley replied to Marin Waddell's discussion Classified Ad I Had To Share

"I get what you are saying! It does totally have a funny side to it! I can just see this. Kind of like a charity auction only people trying to get rid of something instead of keeping it! They should use a stinky buck for this. Actually, if they had…"

Mar 15

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Classified Ad I Had To Share

I found this ad on a local online classifieds site. I can only imagine that the person who posted it doesn't know much about goats. Or farm animals in general. And as much as I hope that they don't get a response to their ad, if they do I really wish I could invisibly watch it. The idea makes me laugh in horror. I do understand why they think it would be funny, but... the poor goat...Looking for Goat ** Fundraiser**Looking for a middle age goat to use for a goat raffle for a youth…See More

Mar 15

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Marin Waddell replied to Kelsie Aman's discussion Debudding...How long is to long?

"I've procrastinated with disbudding and done it entirely too old, right up to the point of there being horns almost long enough to touch the interior of the disbudding ring. I'm not proud of my procrastination, but I'll admit to it.…"

Feb 24

Marin Waddell liked Deborah Niemann-Boehle's discussion Here's the cover for my goat book!

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Sally Knight replied to Marin Waddell's discussion Homemade Warming Hut

"Thank you for your responses on door sizes. "

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Wintering Our Goats

Posted on January 28, 2013 at 12:30pm 4 Comments 4 Likes

I thought I'd share a little about how we've set up our barn for the goats for the winter. We have a 17m X 24m (~56' X 80') pole shelter. From what we can tell it was originally just a roof with no walls, possibly intended for hay storage, but at some point it was enclosed with plywood. Over time this plywood has deteriorated leaving gaps. We live on the Canadian Prairies and temperatures get pretty cold. The goats do just fine in our big breezy set-up.

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Injured Teat

Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:53pm 16 Comments 0 Likes

Today at milking time I noticed a bit of blood on the paper towel that I used to wash Sumac's udder with. I took a look and saw that she had a bad cut on it. This happens from time to time as some of our fencing is barbed wire and the goats like to find places to squeeze through it. When it happens we carefully hand-milk the doe rather than using the machine, and we keep the cut dry and clean until it heals. Sumac's cut was pretty deep and I could see something that I thought might be the…

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The First Year of our Cheese Business (and the time leading up to it)

Posted on January 22, 2012 at 6:24pm 1 Comment 1 Like

After almost 5 years of planning and dreaming we finally got our goat cheese business up and running in 2011. The idea was planted in our heads after our honeymoon in France in October 2006 where we ate large amounts of cheese, much of it goat cheese, and realized that there was no local cheese production in our home province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It was a niche that we thought we could fill. We were still living in the city at the time so we started keeping an eye out for acreages or…

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Caseous Lymphadenitis

Posted on August 3, 2011 at 6:00pm 7 Comments 0 Likes

I think we have it. We purchased several La Mancha does about 10 days ago and one of them has a lump between her hip and ribcage. I called the breeder up and he said yup, he just found a CL lump on one of the does he still has.

We're at a loss as to what to do. CL doesn't spread to humans through milk. We need the milk from all the does in order to run our pasteurizer.

After seeing the lump on the one doe I started checking out all our does very carefully and found a…

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At 12:46pm on February 12, 2013, Deborah Niemann-Boehle said…: I wouldn't think it would cause a problem with eating because they have no teeth on the top anyway. As long as his molars line up, he should be fine. It is a disqualification in the show ring. However, I'm assuming his future is meat anyway, so shouldn't be a problem.

At 9:29pm on August 26, 2012, Patty Meyer said…: Hi Marin-

I'm wondering how Sumac is doing? It's such a strange thing that's happened to her that I can't stop wondering how she's healing. Hope all's well for her and for you!

At 11:59pm on August 3, 2012, Suzanne Shaw said…: Hi Marin, I'm a fairly new goat owner, I've had my doe and wether for about two years now and my doe just recently was a first freshner (July 24th!) to two bucklings. I was really interested in your usage of breast milk on eye irritations since one of my baby boys has a little bit of white discharge coming out of the corner of his left eye. There is no swelling or any other problems, so I tried to take your advice and tried to milk her so I could put some in her baby's eye but she had never been milked before and kept running away from me ( she lets her babies milk just fine!) the little stinker!! So I have started a saline rinse followed by a little antibiotic ointment I hope it works, but I'm not giving up on future goat milk applications (especially if the antibiotic ointment doesn't help). Wish me luck! Sorry this is so long:)

At 12:51pm on February 20, 2012, Deborah Niemann-Boehle said…: We have the least expensive monitor I could find ($15) and it picks up sound from a good distance. We have it at the end of the barn closest to the house, and the goats are at the other end of the barn -- so about 60 feet away from the monitor. It doesn't pick up little sounds, but it does pick up screaming from either does or kids. It will pick up softer sounds if it's closer to them, but it doesn't work for us because we have a metal barn, so we need to have the monitor next to the open door so there is no metal between the monitor and the receiver in our house.

At 9:58pm on August 21, 2011, Deborah Niemann-Boehle said…: Congratulations! That is wonderful news!

At 9:22pm on June 6, 2011, Deborah Niemann-Boehle said…: Happy birthday!

At 2:42pm on May 25, 2011, Deborah Niemann-Boehle said…: We have 32 acres with a 1/3 acre pond. The duck population varies from 4 to 15, depending upon coyotes. The ducks only range out over about 10 acres. They're pretty much home-bodies. We don't have that many muscovies any longer. Actually we're down to 3 Cayugas, 2 muscovies, and 1 Indian runner that is 9 years old. I'm thinking of ordering another 15 this summer -- maybe Rouens this time.

At 6:18pm on May 2, 2011, Deborah Niemann-Boehle said…: Congratulations! What page is the story on? You should post about it in the "Goat Friends" forum.

At 7:23pm on April 22, 2011, Deborah Niemann-Boehle said…: So sorry about the doe-buck ratio, but at least the doeling didn't have any problems today. Congratulations! I'm trying to remember how miserable I was waiting for my pen bred does to kid in February so that I won't do that again.

At 11:59am on February 15, 2011, Adrienne said…: Congratulations! We'll be able to drink our milk tomorrow, but we probably won't since i have to go out of town for two days and I won't be able to milk and David still "doesn't know how" but when I get back Friday, I'm ready!