Being new to raising goats, I am wondering if ours are at the right weight. I read the “Body Condition Scores in Goats” resource from one of Deborah’s older posts, and will try to assess our goats’ weight this way. However, I was wondering if there a
Read more…I'm trying to decide what I would describe my buckling's coloring as... he is mostly a reddish roan/ brown, with white markings, and the black markings that a chamoise would have -black underbelly, legs, and dorsal stripe. I would call him a broken b
Read more…Just hoping to hear from those who have experience weaning bucklings and preparing them to leave the farm. We have always wethered our bucklings, but have been working to improve our herd and have a nice little buckling this time around that we are g
Read more…Does anyone have experience using Teff hay?
I got my hands on some and stocked up for the winter--mainly because that's what was available by the time I got around to stocking up for the winter. A friendly acquaintance had grown it experimentally for
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I'm not using dehorning paste on a young goat, but what I would like to do is put it on the top of a nigerian duck's thick scur.
I've been trying to find information on using dehorning paste without success. I have some dehorning paste I wanted to
Read more…Looking for advise please. We are preparing our 4 acre hobby farm for 4 registered NDs due here next month. I have cleared and prepared a 900 ft paddock fenced with 4 inch spaced woven wire fence 48 inches high with a shock wire on top of that to mak
Read more…I seem to always be going back and forth on what to feed our milkers. For several years, I have been feeding DuMor sweet feed, mixing in BOSS, sometimes alfalfa pellets. Our goats always have access to Sweetlix Meat Maker loose mineral, Thorvin kelp,
Read more…Hey all. My two ND kiddos have lice. I purchased the Ultra Boss pour on. According to the dosage, it states to give 1.5 ml per 50 lbs. should I give them this dosage? They are probably 15 lbs max. It says to pour on back and face. Is the fact correct
Read more…I have a herd of four right now, a buckling from this spring, a whether from this spring as bucklings buddy, and a mother/ daughter pair, mom a few years old and baby from this spring as well. My question is on grain and goats. I'm sure it varies by
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What is the best milk replacer for bottle fed doelings, I got a recipe from another blog of 2 cups whole milk, 1 cup buttermilk and 1 can of evaporated milk. Is this better than kid replacer milk?
Thanks!
Lee
Read more…Hi, I'm having trouble in my barn with a 6 month old female twin doeling trying to mount the other goats, vocalizing vociferously and so dedicated that she doesn't stop pestering to eat. She is polled from a polled mom and horned dad, so i hop
Read more…Hello, we just rescued a buck Nigerian dwarf. His coat is completely white, I dont think he has a fish tail, the tip has hair, but the underside is completely bald. I am not sure if he has always been white or if this is a sign of copper deficiency.
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I am incredibly thankful for this website/ forum since yall have nigerian dwarf goats as well. I have had my goats coming up on three years and am by no mean a professional goat person. For some reason one of them is shedding like crazy. She
Read more…Hi everyone, I need some advice....
My doe is due March 28th, exactly 2 months from today. I didn't realize how close we were to the "2 months before kidding" mark, and I realized this just last week, and so I started drying her off by only milking o
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I just joined and I have three beautiful doelings, I need to register them....but do I need to have homestead name first and which association should I join, AGS, ANDDA or NDGA or two. I plan on milking and maybe showing!
Thanks
Leslie
Read more…I want to cut out an area in the barn so the goats can out out to a fenced in chain link pen area if they need to (they free range during the day though). Does anyone have any suggestion on the size of the cut out so full grown nigerians can exit.
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just wanted to share these photos in case they are of use to anyone else. We have an 8 piece moveable fence. It's permanently tied at the corners but the middle ties on each side we loosen each day to lift 2 parts to the next square of gr
Read more…Deborah,
In your book, I am pretty sure I read it in there, you say that goats should have access to hay pretty much 24/7. I have hay available in our barns where the goats are when not out on pasture but currently do not have hay out in the past
Read more…Hi everyone! I am new to the whole goat raising and homesteading but i find it extremely interesting and fun to learn about. Anyways my husband and i bought a goat whose roughly 4 months old give or take and we were told by the lady we got him from t
Read more…We are picking up our goats next week and to help facilitate moving them around our property we are looking at using leads. So a bit of a odd question maybe but if buying a dog collar (with of course the break away clip) to use on a Nigerian dwarf g
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