I hear some much about the bucks getting the urinary problems. Before I ever heard of this I had nubians and feed my buck alfalfa and grain (small amount) -and grass hay. I sold him when he was about 7 yrs old. Always healthy. Everyone I knew
Read more…One of our 4 week old kids between noon feeding and this evening feeding has major issues. In their very large cage (indoors in unheated garage since it's -2 right now - an extra large dog crate 4 x 5 x 4 high) one is ok, but the other's neck is hel
Read more…Okay, folks, I have a bizarre potential problem brought on by my own carelessness though I didn't realize it was. The last bag of sunflower seeds I put into 3-lb. coffee cans which I put in the hay manger on the end because they fit there so well.
Read more…So, from my research, I have learned *about* CAE, CL, and Johnes (sp?), but I haven't been able to find out what the actual procedure is for testing for these diseases. Could someone tell me? Does it involve a vet middleman, like Coggins testing with
Read more…Hi everyone, I have a Nigerian Dwarf who, in the last couple days, has been scratching her right ear and shaking her head. Just wondering who has noticed this in their friends before. Is this something to be concerned with? Also, her and my Pygmy hav
Read more…We have a 5 month old Doeling with what we believe is lungworm... She coughs a good bit but has no other signs of distress. I got a 52g pkg of Prohibit (levamisole hydrochloride) for cattle and sheep and would like recommendations on dosage amoun
Read more…Okay, here we go again. Tally, who will be ten in January, is scouring again. This has been going off and on for about 4 months. She'll scour for a week and then be fine for a while and then get all loose dog poop for a few days and then be fine and
Read more…Found out that a goat that I had staying with my herd for breeding wo stayed a month and a half and went home 11 days ago is dying from listeria today. So of course her herd owner and I are on alert for symptoms in our other goats.
I have a few que
Read more…I seem to be the only one with goats who are not interested in the BOSS. But I've only offered it with seed shell still on it. What do you all do. Did your goats like it immediately.
They love almost all other food that I offer. Theoretically it
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I know this may have been discussed before...but I am curious if anyone has had any problems with their goats eating mushrooms? Where we live there are all types of mushrooms and I am constantly on "Mushroom Patrol" trying to get rid of the
Read more…First kidding coming up next month and was online at Hoegger looking at tattoo kits and saw a new tattoo "pen". Wondering if anyone has used this?
Read more…Can you give a goat kid (3 month old) a COWP? We got a buckling a week ago and he was coughing. We got him shipped and I am sure that the stress of the trip had something to do with it. Talked to the vet and she said that it could be worms. She s
Read more…I had an interesting experience on Monday... It scared me soo bad!!
Monday I woke up to nasty weather... little bit of snow blowing and freezing. I had gotten dressed and went out to feed and break all the ice on the waters. All animals were doing
Read more…So last week I had issues with my Tally girl and scours. I got that cleared up for now but I went out to the barn to let everyone out and heard her let out a distressed kind of moan. When I got to her she was on her left side, head extended up, all f
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I've been trying to decide what to do as far as selenium administration goes for my goats. I called our vet a couple of weeks ago to ask them if they gave the BoSe shot and they do; however, they are out of BoSe and they don't know when t
I vaguely remember reading somewhere on this list or another Nigerian area about someone with a goat where she shows some undercoat stuff around her neck. It makes it look like a duller, light gray fuzz is poking through around the neck area.
I have
Read more…Pepper is an older goat, who has birthed numerous times. I bought her pregnant last January, she had one boy this May. I sold her kid one month ago, at 5 months of age. Her milk supply so low, less than 6 oz. a day. She is pooping solid long poops,
Read more…This past year our hooves grew faster than in the past. So I was thinking about ways to help them trim those feet as they are playing. What have you done?
I have boulders for them to climb on and they do but that isn't enough. Plus they seem to prefe
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As I sit in bed very sick with flu or bad cold that I got from my husband - it made me realize that aside from my helpers who wonderfully - have spelled me during the last couple days of being sick - I hadn't given much thought as to wh
Read more…We just got results from a CAE test we had done on our herd about three weeks ago. We just started our herd the past spring. We started with a doe (FF) and her doeling. We got them when the doling was about 2 months old. We added another doeling t
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