Hi everyone. It has been quite a while since I posted with a question. My 4 wethers are now about 11 months old, more or less. I may have made a mistake a while back when they outgrew their earlier grain ration and I introduced timothy pellets instea
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Hello! I have some questions about deworming goats. I checked all of my adult goats eyelids today and 5 out of 6 had pale\light pink eyelids.
One of my goats was losing weight and having poop that looked like dog poop. So I picked up some Valbazen fr
Read more…What brands of minerals do y'all use? I'm new to goats, and originally bought MannaPro minerals, but after reading through all the old forums came to the conclusion that that brand is mostly worthless. In the old forums, it sounds like Purina is a go
Read more…I have 3 or 4 kids I purchased that have the round bellies like a watermelon. Fecals are clean. I don't want them to be smaller than normal. What can I do to correct this?
The buckling is 6 months old and the doelings are 4-6 months. Im in Texas so i
Read more…Hi! My family recently got 2 baby goats. We got them when they were a few days old and they are now 4 weeks old. The past couple of days, we have been struggling to get our girl Nigerian dwarf to take her bottle. We have to force her to take 2 oz wh
Read more…I'm getting ready to give my goats their first dose of COWP... I'm seeing some signs of deficiency. My black goat is turning reddish, and some of them have rough coats, and there is a bit of fishtail.
Anyways... I purchased the UltraCruz COWP for ki
Read more…I have a doe who came out of the barn this morning missing the top part of her scur. Normally I don’t think much about broken scurs. She wasn’t bleeding and at first I didn’t even give it a second thought. But as I was leaving the pasture she came ov
Read more…Hi, I have a pregnant doe that has been week in the back legs. We've recently gave her WCP and been giving her oral minerals (repliman gel plus) to help boost her but she doesn't seem to improve. We have just moved 4 months ago and have had them on p
I have five goats -2 wethers, 2 does, 1 buck - they are all between three and four months old, and I've owned them all since they were 8 wks. I have never given them grain... should I be? If so, I feel terrible that I never gave it to them. Here are
Read more…I've got a doe who kidded a couple of weeks ago who has hair loss around her ears. Not just a patch, but pretty much hair loss on the whole ear, both of them. The hair loss forms a circle at the base of the ear where the hair loss begins and ends. I
Read more…This April one of our does gave birth to 3 kids. 2 bucks and 1 doe. The doe died at 4 weeks. She was weak, didn't gain any weight (3 pounds at most) and just not thriving period. The bucks are now 6 weeks and are just not, in our opinion, quite r
Read more…Hello everyone. I'm new to goats, and I have three Nigerians two does and one wether all 10 months old. My wethers coat is getting rough and losing its color, he was dark brown when we got him in February, and now he has a lot of white on his hind le
Read more…I have an 8 year doe, Clover, she is one of my first two goats and has a special spot in my heart.
3.5 years ago she contracted meningeal worm, the parasite attacked her spinal cord. At her worst her back legs were paralyzed, but with an outstanding
Read more…My three boys hit the two year mark two weeks ago. The first year was pretty straight forward but this past year we seem to be struggling with what might be copper deficiency but not sure.
1. Vinny - my brown one has gone tan and lost hair around his
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I have a small herd of 3 does and a wether. One doe was born here and the other 2 does and wether were purchased from breeders who health test and had clean herds. About a month ago my wether seemed a little quieter than usual, but was still
Read more…Not sure of my post went through before... basically it was talking about how we lost a one-year-old weathered male, to urinary calculi a.k.a. kidney stones… My vet said she is beyond frustrated at how many people are told to feed grain to Goats… The
Read more…Hi, I have some nigerian dwarf goats I got in the spring of last year. They did terrific on pasture and hay supplement during the summer. This winter I started to notice that they were getting little spots where hair wasn't growing. I have been givin
Read more…Can anyone tell me the best thing for fleas on goats? My boy was scratching and I found a few on him. I looked it up, but have read many different things. Thanks, Haley
Read more…One of my does, dry since August of 2016, has now developed something of an udder. She has had only one set of kids, born in 2015. I sent this pic to my vet (who is normally pretty knowledgeable about goats) and he said that sometimes does who have k
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