As tends to happen when you have indoor/outdoor animals, we got invaded by fleas...They were pretty persistent on the dog, and it took a double dose of Advantage (2 weeks apart) and then finally the flea pill from the vet...
But in the meantime, th
Read more…Okay, I have a first freshener that was bred 11-19-11 and an older doe that was bred 1-5-12. I have been feeding them first thing in the morning the following rations.
1/3 cup alfalfa pellets
1/4 cup BOSS
a sprinkle of Blue seal dairy goat feed...l
Read more…My Doe, Spot, gave birth two days ago. Since then she has gotten VERY stinky. It's intermittent so I think it's flatulence but I'm not sure. She smells kind of like the inside of our chicken coop (not an ammonia smell, I give the chickens somethin
Read more…I am pretty sure that Tally is copper deficient. She is a black doe and has started to get rusty spots on her hind flanks, her skin is flaky and her undercoat looks to be shedding. She has fishtail but is not losing any hair on her face. She was real
Read more…So we start slowly adding or increasing grain in the last few weeks of the doe's pregnancy. Got it. But I would think we would also be adding in alfalfa at that time, in whatever form, for the protein and the calcium. Then my vet friend says, "no, y
Read more…Hey guys...my doe who just gave birth four days ago is getting pale again. I had this problem with her before, she was kinda of chronic, but I finally got her color up after I found a dewormer that seemed to work for her. Actually the three I had a
Read more…There seems to be a massive weight range - is this true?
The consensus seems to be to wait until 40 lbs at least to breed (to allow proper growth for the mother). This is where I get confused because...haha..my goat books say the goats weigh 30-50
Read more…We are going to have our first Hard Freeze tonight and I am wondering how my goats are going to take it...We are supposed to get as cold as 18F overnight....I realize for many of your farther north this is not big deal but we are in Florida and not r
Read more…Well I did it...I trimmed the goats hooves...Just like the Youtube video showed me...
WELL maybe not quite JUST like the video...
First I don't have a milk stand
Second my goats did not stand still.
Instead I teathered them to the fence with a dog lead
I have a little 3 mo old doe that has what appears to be dandruff, she is black and it is easy to see the flakes in her coat. She has access to loose minerals and has access to weedy alfalfa with 1/2 cup oats in the morning and evening, their beddin
Read more…Orange spots (pee?) in the snow in goats pen? any idea what it could be? I give molasses and apple cider vinegar in warm water. I just added sweet feed to their goat chow 50/50 with sunflower seeds (could this do it?) They have loose minerals avail
Read more…I currently only have 2 goats, a 5month old wether and a 7month old doe/ling (at what age will she go from doeling to doe??)...Obviously it is not good for the wether to get too much grain and since he is a little piggy when it comes to food he tends
Read more…NOTE: PLEASE EXCUSE THE HORSE TERMS :)
For the third time in about a months time, my goat Beauty is lame on her front left hoof. She just stands in the stall and holds it in the air, looking at me like "Don't you care?". And I do care, but I'm not s
Read more…I stumbled on this tonight and thought it may interest a lot of you.
http://www.scsrpc.org/SCSRPC/Publications/part5.htm
It made for very interesting reading, and explains why some of the alternative things I do with my goats actually work (I coppe
Read more…Moses is 2 DAYS old and has bright orange mushy BM. The one I saw earlier appeared to also have a clear-cloudy white mucus bubble. He seems fine otherwise. His two prother's have typical black tar.
I will try to get enough to do a fecal on him in t
Read more…I read that I red raspberry leaves help with healthy pregnancies so I started giving my does a pot of red raspberry tea in their water bucket but stopped after I read that red raspberry leaves are high in selenium and although my area is basically se
Read more…We just bought a 5 month old buckling, he has scurs and wanting some help on knowing what we can do. The breeder said it was pretty common in bucks and both of her bucks had scurs (they were bought from seperate breeders, one came from South Carolin
Read more…My goats have started to get clumpy poop. Since its fall they have been eating tons of leaves, could this be it? No other problems in there behavior noticed. If it is the abundance of leaves, which i can't do anything about, is there anything I can
Read more…Hey Everyone. I joined this site a few months ago and have learned quite a bit from reading your questions and answers but now I have a question of my own. I have four Nigerians - two does and two 4 month old doelings. One of my doelings, Chrysanthem
Read more…I was looking around about Hoof Trimming and keep coming up with stuff about Proper Trimming for Show Goats...Since I do not intend to show my goats how often do I need to trim my goats hooves?...They are in soft pasture all the time and have no acce
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