Here we go everyone!,
Michael has made his plans and has given me a list of questions to ask you all your thoughts about before he starts all the cutting and nailing of the housing!
We are starting out with two goats as we have loads going on at the
Read more…Hi, My daughter's buck is a sweetheart but he has a very annoying habit now of pushing his head forcefully at you, hands, legs, whatever is near his head. He seems to want to be petted but he does not stop even if you pet him. And he only likes pett
Read more…Really this cannot be this hard! But seriously, its only been 4 days and I'm about to be crazy.
Every time I fed her the first day I took her out to see her mom and tried to get her to nurse. If I filled the teat and showed it to her it would take
Read more…HELP! I need ideas. We lost our livestock housing....snow collapsed it. Our goats are in the outside pen with a 4 x 6 wooden structure. We can't lock it up. Now we have soooooo much snow they are just jumping / walking over their 4 ft fence. W
Read more…We are concerned about our newest little ones born early this morning. We brought them in to warm-up and about thirty minutes later we took them back to Allis. Poor things stand under the heat lamp and shiver. Should we keep bringing them in to warm
Read more…Okay so we are looking at working on the fencing for our new girls this weekend and I was wondering what you all thought about our plan and if there is anything we can do to improve upon it. We are fencing in about 1/2 acre or so for our 3 girls (2
Read more…Its getting cold here in Maine and I was wondering what other people did, who live in cold climates to get ready for winter?
Well this is the first time that we are selling our Nigerian Dwarf Goat kids. It is so hard to decide who to sale. My goals are to have good milking and breeding quality. However, when it comes down to deciding it's so hard. So what do you do?
Read more…I have a doe & a buck that have scurs & one doe that looks like she has one horn or just a really thick scur?? Anyway, I was wondering what you guys thought about having the scurs cut off & reburned instead of having then scurs surgically removed? I'
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I have reason to believe the big black dog that has been jumping my fence in the afternoons attacked my rooster, who is now in critical condition, bu
Read more…Has anybody heard that when using a heating lamp, you should use infered lightbulbs or the red lightbulbs? Someone said today that I should not use white heating lamp bulbs. Because it hurts the kids eyes. We currently are using white heating lamp bu
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Well the time is quickly coming that I need to start tattooing the kids. My question is there a certain sequence of numbers/letters that you have to use? Do you typically use the first two letters of your farm name or just a variety of numbers or
Read more…So the forecast here in Maine is calling for -30 degrees!! I am getting REALLY nervous now about the goats living in igloos. I feel as though Im being neglectful! They are PACKED full of straw and the goats seem to be warm. The igloos are free from
Read more…Hej from Sweden,
I have Nigerian Dwarf goats who are housed in boxes in my stable. We have removable water and food containers in each box. We thought they were handy items to have, but now I wonder if there is a better way to have their water and
Read more…We are getting our goats as soon as the "barn" and fencing are complete. We have a 12x16 lean to attached to the 12x16 shed (where I will milk and store feed that they will not have access to) that we plan on enclosing for the goats pen. The other id
Read more…Hi Everyone! I've been reading through all the old posts and I couldn't find any threads on floor plans for a little goat barn. The picture is an historic goat barn somewhere! I am doing this from the ground up and can do a post and beam with a rea
Hey everyone,
This is not my first herd, but it's the first time I have locked my goats up at night in the barn. I have heard a couple of things that made me want to check if I am doing it right.
To describe our barn/shed, there is a big hinged d
Read more…I have been trying to keep track of the heat cycles in my 2 does.I read that they will cycle every 18-21 days.How do you count that time? When is a heat over and when does it begin?I have one does that very obviously was in heat today.She had disc
Read more…We are thinking of using electric net for the goats movable pasture. We are looking at Premier's fencing and was wondering if any one else uses this method and what size mesh and height works best for the NDG's.
Thanks for you advice in advance.
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Anyone have advice on keeping a buck by himself? We had bought a wether to keep him company, but the wether cried all night when they were put together. He missed the goat girls he'd been living with until then. The buck is young, under a year, an
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