I've been on a quest to find lespedeza seeds to plant in my pasture, as well as lespedeza pellets to feed my goats. Lespedeza is a natural dewormer, which has been studied quite a bit by the researchers who studied copper oxide wire particles, and wh
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Over the past week I have noticed my one buck in particular really beginning to shed and loose his hair. My second buck is doing the same thing but far less dramatically. Today I noticed that my first buck is actually loosing/shedding
Read more…I just went out to feed the goats, and as I gave my Doe Deenie a chin scratch I noticed it was feeling swollen...She is eating ok and even took her treat fine...It is not hard or hot to touch but feels fleshy...She is due to kid for the first time on
Read more…I need to give two goats something for coughing. Would like to try Levamisole after reading diff discussions on here. All I can find online looks like it's in a packet and from Jeffers. Is that right?? If not where do I find it?? I have Ivomec, Cyd
Read more…One week from tomorrow our Sarah Goat is due to have her babies...Today we think she fell from the top of the play house...she was inside it, hubby heard and thud and turned around to see her on her side laying next to the one side that has no openin
Read more…I'm wondering how much Penicillin I should be giving Panzy, the doe whom the vet had to cut the kid out of. We initially went with the dosage suggested in the Hoegger catalog, as vet didn't know what to give a goat. So the vet gave her .6cc after s
Read more…OK, So once again, I am full of questions! This time, about feeding! I now have my does getting nice and fat. They look really cute that way, and it makes me feel good BUT...They are also finally starting to seem pregnant! So now I am worried about h
Read more…Just spoke with the people at Thorvin Kelp and they referred me to 7 Springs Farm in Va. to order 50lbs. of Kelp. They are Organic but you will find a few things that are marked as not certified but untreated and non GMO.
Well, as I looked over there
Read more…Okay, I admit to being somewhat of a wreck since Cupcake passed away. I admit to eagle eying my pregnant does, and analyzing their every move. I am concerned about a couple of things though.
#1 How fast is too fast for a very pregnant doe to be b
Read more…I have been reading about what everyone feeds their goats and finding it very interesting.
Then I start to wonder if I am not feeding enough or am I being a bad goat owner by not giving them lots of treats etc. This also then leads into feeding my d
Read more…I want to get a few things, for emergencies and need suggestions! I had a couple of problems this past year I wasn't prepared for and had to run around borrowing last minute.
Anemia- I have been told to get the ferrodex pig iron. which I haven't yet
Read more…So a friend of mine who has nubians is pretty taken with my Nigerians. She thought they were so cool she wanted to switch. But the cost of dairy bred registered milkers was too steep for her in my area. I suggested she just breed some of her nubia
Read more…My sister sent this to me after witnessing a birth on MareStare where kids were lost:
http://www.tennesseemeatgoats.com/articles2/toxoplasmosis.html
Read more…I'm a little confused about the fecal test. When I took a goat care class a little over a year ago, she showed us how to check for worms and put material on the slide. Today the vet said the fecal count was low on the "float test" and they did not
Read more…Can I feed my goats cracked corn or is it only for chickens and other birds. I'm not gonna use it as there regular feed but I would just like to feed it to them as a treat.
Read more…Hey guys...Penny's little buckling had yellow goop all over his heinie and his back legs this morning, stuck to him. Never had one look messy like that. He is two days old today. Does this mean something is wrong with him? I think the color is no
Read more…Okay, goat peeps; time to have your voices herd (ha!). I am putting together, in theory at least, a comprehensive goat management app. If there is already one out there, please let me know, as I have been unable to find it. I need to outline its func
Read more…Any body have any ideas of what could cause this and what to do? She does not really seem sick symptom wise just a little lethargic.
May be pregnant and eats regularly just not aggressively. Yearling has had a horrible time with this, so bad one day,
Read more…I have a FF doe due on 4/10. I just noticed has some clumpy fecal material in the pen (a lot of it) and she was hiding in the igloo in the barn. She is not normally in there. She has some stuck to her rear end also. She did not want any grain either.
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