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Purple Clover

Just a quick question - can goats safely eat purple clover? Or is it poisonous?

TOXOPLASMOSIS

Our third breading season, we only breed once a year, has been heart breaking month of births, with many stillborns/deaths. 

With our research we believe that we have experienced toxoplasmosis. We did purchase two kittens last spring to help with b

Upcoming Goat Hoof Care Class - Seattle

What is my doe telling me?

This has happened twice now, but what is my doe telling me when she is sitting on me and then pees on me :/?

Tattoo kits, which size?

I'm looking at the tattoo kits at Hoegger's site.  which size would I get for the ND?  They have the 5/16" or the 3/8".   

CD & T

Morning everyone!,

This is our first full year with goats, and I always have lots of questions when it's the first of everything! We did everyone's CD & T shots yesterday.  One goat is a little limp on her leg, still able to walk, jump, eat, poo, dri

HELP ! Crying Goat, Skinny, had worms, now not eating well

Hi Everyone ! (my fellow goat forum friends)

kids eye is mattering

Our little bottle baby, Tinkerbell, had one of her disbudding scabs come off today, so I sprayed it with iodine.  I am almost positive I did not get any in her eyes, but she wouldn't hold still, so I suppose it is possible that I did.  I noticed this

Copper, Deworming & Pregnancy

My girls are in their last month of pregnancy are starting to look pale AGAIN. Last time (last spring)I was told to deworm with Ivomec 10 days apart 3 times. They looked better but have always been more pale than i would like. I have dewormed every 3

Goat first aid kit

Hi,

I know i've posted a lot latley but i'm still new to goat care and i just want to find out as much as possible before my goat (going to get anouther one with it most likey) comes home.

Alright so, as with all my animals i try to make a first aid

Twitchy??

Today I noticed that one of my does was stamping her feet and twitching all over like she was plagued with flies, but there are no flies.  Could it be fleas or lice???  None of my other goats are acting the same, there are no other signs of itching,

Wormer Rotation

I would like to buy the Wormer Rotation Pack from Caprine Supply. It's Safe-Guard (Fenbendazole in the benzimidazole class), IverCare (Ivermectin in the macrocyclic lactone class), and Pyrantel Pamoate (in the pyrimidine class). I read that the Safe-

Reburning Scurs

Ok, I've searched the archives and haven't managed to answer my question, so:

I have three 5 week old bucklings that just had their disbudding scabs fall off.  Out of the three, one appears to have one scur coming in, and another has scurs on both si

Boots the Piggy

My goat made a pig of himself. We put them out in the new pen with fresh pasture, in just 3hrs he ate so much he can barely walk. I brought them back to the feedless pen, gave him some probiotics and put out baking soda for him. Now he will just have

Selenium Q

I have a selenium Q...

So I know that you CAN overdose on Selenium, and that some of the toxicity symptoms are identical to deficiency symptoms.

MY DILEMMA IS THIS:

I wonder if selenium is effecting my doe's fertility, and I worry that increasing the

Has anyone ever had a problem with hair loss and dry, flaky skin in their goats?

I've posted 6 pictures that I took today of my goat, Bella.  She has very dry, flaky skin and hair loss around her eyes, muzzle, on her face, top of her ears and white, crusty skin uner her tail.  At first I thought it was mange, from the symptoms(sh

Not Standing on One Foot

One of our goats is being bothered by her left hind foot, but I can't figure out why.

Whenever she's on a hard surface (I don't see it as much when she's on grass or straw) she simply won't stand on that foot, she'll keep it lifted off the ground.

SO frustrated with my smelly Spot--update!

My doe, Spot, gave birth 1/17 to triplets. 

This is a digestive smelliness, not the uterine infection discussed before, which cleared up nicely. 

During her pregnancy, I had been feeding alfalfa hay free choice, baking soda and Manna Pro minerals f

Strange death

I just had a buckling die.  He was a twin.  I got them and they were too young 4-5 weeks.  I bottle fed both of them for several weeks, provided water, hay minimal grains.  I weaned them from milk and they were fine.  I kept them away from my other g

Wounds

I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I have a goat that has both knee's  all banged up. The fur is gone and he's constantly reopening the scabs. Is their something I can use to wrap his knee with or some other type of remedy ? I keep