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
Read more…!Advice Please! My two little does have arrived in Oregon from New Mexico at my husbands aunts house. We are going to pick them up on Sunday. My aunt had a local expert on Nigerians look them over; she said one was great while the other looked malno
Read more…I went to let the goats out this morning and one of my does who is 6 months old had a bloody discharge. She has never been exposed to a buck so I know she is not aborting. Any help would be nice. It wasn't a lot, but enough for me to notice. She
Read more…Before we were able to go get our new goats, the whole herd got a cough. We post-pond the pick up by a few weeks and he seemed better with just a little cough here and there. Well we have had a very wet last few weeks and this morning I noticed his
Read more…I bred one of my does almost two weeks ago. When she was in heat she had a clear discharge. After I bred her for a few days she had a white mucus color discharge that seemed to be kinda spiratic, but never had completely cleared up. Only noticed i
Read more…I don't know if any of you were aware of this resource, but thought it might be helpful. It's online and easy to search.
http://merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp
Read more…I really want to buy this book but every time I go to the site it wants to sell me both of Cheryl's books. I already own the other one. Am I missing something? Would rather order it from her site and not Amazon....
Read more…We have had 4 straight days of rain and I put some straw down last Friday and new straw down this morning with some sweet pdz on top of their old bedding. I know I need to clean out their barn but it is pretty dry in there and doesn't smell too badl
Read more…I'm a bit confused on this point. Are there breeders/herds 'certified cae free'? Or is that just the term applied if they have been tested and get negative results. I hear both terms used, and wondering if some people just test and others have herds
Read more…Hello everyone, I have a little guy who is 7 weeks and has diarrhea. When he is out during the day it doesn't seem to be as bad, but when he is locked up at night he is just covered in the morning. I have to give him a bath almost every morning for
Read more…Just found this on alternative dewormers:
http://www.scsrpc.org/SCSRPC/Publications/part5.htm
The thing I found most interesting is the study about wormwood reducing fecal egg count by 50% when they fed a POUND of it to goats every day for four days.
Read more…I have goats that are coughing The two girls started a few weeks ago. They are still all running around and eating. They have a runny nose and it was very hot today and I could hear them breathing and it sounded a little congested. Any suggestion
Read more…So I checked eyelids this AM...have not even had the goats a week yet...and of the three I could get hold of, two were white pale and one was faintly pink. The buck that I couldn't catch at the time has clumpy poo, so I'm sure he's wormy too. Valley
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