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We have an 8 week old buckling who we neutered this morning using a Ritchey Nipper!  It went smoothly relatively speaking.  About a week ago though I noticed a different issue - a scur coming up.  Now they are in 3 places, about 1/2 inch tall and pretty thin (so they are kind of sharp).  What should I do?  I'm concerned about him hurting someone else when headbutting.  Do I have him re-burned by the vet? (I'm doing the burning next year)!   cut them myself somehow (how?)?  Any ideas.…

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Hello, I have a small herd of 8 does.  They are all from Little Tots Estate in Georgia.  Their parents are having good records of showing…

http://www.riverdancefarm.com We have now integrated etsy for our store for easier navigation. Click on Etsy Store and there you will find not only handmade gifts from our farm but also from my friend Monica at Polka Dot World. We want to wish all of you happy holidays and hope everyone stays safe.

Hi All!

After this group kept coming up in searches I finally joined and I'm excited to be a part of it! I currently have 2 ND does (1 senior and 1 FF), 1 ND wether and 3 ND kids (3 doelings and a buckling). All of them are from Castle Rock stock.

I also have a couple of grade pygmies and 3 pygmy/ND cross kids (2 doelings and 1 buckling) with more kids on the way any minute now. They were my first goats before I really knew anything about goats. We milk them as well as the…

Pickles and Oreo have this cough like they have something in their throat. It isn't all the time but a lot. Patches doesn't have it and I was just wondering if that is normal or not.

Kathy

I am looking for transport of an adult NDG buck from Utah to Texas. Is anyone going that way with room?

Thanks,

Michael

Just thought i would share, my goat has been eating some cherries (and spitting out the pits). One time she didn't spit out the pit (keep in mind the pits were a little dirty when they spit them out) and about 24 hours later when she was chewing her cud a super clean pit fell out of her mouth, i thought it was hilarious and so did my parents. Just thought i would share that. :)

My little babies all have big round pupils instead of the little narrow oblong ones, should I bee worried. My husband and son think I'm being silly but I don't want them sick. Has anyone seen that before?

This morning I went out to the goat barn to let them out, and I found Hazel standing on a knocked over hay feeder, Mable where she usually is, but Zaffy was nowhere to be seen! After scanning the inside of the barn, though, I noticed a small muzzle poking out of the keyhole opening of the feeder.  Don't know how Zaffy got in the box, it being locked and all, but she did.  Probably slipped through the hole, but it would have been a tight squeeze, and since the box was on its side then she…

We are so excited that we opened a new store featuring hand made gifts from the farm. It is still a work in progress as we are adding new items to the list all the time. If you would like to check it out its www.etsy.com/shop/riverdancefarm There is also a link on our website for the shop the gift store.

It was over 110 here so I carried my goats in the pool and they didn't like it very much but I could tell they loved it afterwords when they were out and running around, but then they sat in the sun so they dried very quickly. 

Melissa,  thank you so much for your reply and recommendations.  We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel concerning the sore mouth saga.  What a learning experience. 

I'm a newbie - we have had our first goats for one month: 3 kids who are now 3 months and 1 kid who is 7 months.  We have two GPyrs that we are training.  The young GPyr is a male 8months who spent the whole day with the goats yesterday, for the first time, and actually slept under the platforms that the goats play on-- he has been spending briefer time with them before that.  

But during the day, he developed worsening diarrhea, and last night vomited up what looks like the goats…