Hi all love the site and look foward to contributing.
I have a small 3 acre hobby farm here in the Pacific Northwest (WA).
I have about a 5000sqft fenced goat pen, for being a small area it has hill small gully and trees.
What are some good ways
Read more…One of my first fresheners gave birth to triplets yesterday. I have seen them all nurse and they are all acting healthy and alert. However the last kid was significantly smaller than the others. Should I supplement his feedings or should I just let m
Read more…Hello, my name is Shirlene. I will be receiving my first two little does Friday. I am busy making them a play area and can't wait for them to arrive. I look forward to meeting you all. I live in TX not too far from Waco. This is our first year her s
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I am fairly new to the goat raising experiance. We have had goats now for about a year and half.
We have 7 ND does (2 are 4, 1 is 3, 2 are 2 and 2 were born in March. We also have 2 pygmy does. We have one pigmy buck and 3 ND withers
Read more…HI EVERYONE MY NAME IS EDITH SANDRIDGE AND I HAVE 7 NIGERIAN AND 2 MINI SILKY FAINTING GOATS. I HAVE HAD GOATS FOR SOME TIME NOW AND LOVE THEM DEARLY. I HAVE 6 DOES GETTING READY TO KID WITHIN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS. I HAVE LEARNED ALOT OVER THE YEARS WIT
Read more…I bought a new doe in milk back in July. She started coughing a few days after I got her and at fist I just thought it was because of the stress of joining a new herd. Unfortunately it kept up and got worse. Sometimes it is a dry cough and sometimes
Read more…I am so happy to have found an active goat community, thank you for adding me! My daughter (in the picture) has two nigerian dwarfs that are set to kid at the end of April. This will be the first birth on our farm other then chickens and turkeys.
Read more…My four females are butting each other for long times at a stretch, say half an hour, their heads show the effect by having bald spots appearing and my eldest, 7 years old is, i hope, due in mid June. I just saw her being hit in the stomach by he
Read more…Would it be worth adding a buck to my herd that is 7 years old? It’s his blood lines that I’m really after and I have a unique opportunity to get him at a great price from a herd dispersal but at 7, I’m hesitating. How many years can I realistically
Read more…I along with many others received messages from one person that looks like a spam/scam situation in the last couple of hours. They either hacked the site or were accepted. May want to review or remove them from the site as they don’t seem to be here
Read more…Hello all,
Thank you for allowing me to join the group!
My name is Annette and I live in Sacramento Ca.
i am new to goats, have had my 3 for about 3 months now. Two doe kids and the mother to one of the kids.
I hoping to be able to learn as much a
Read more…My Name is Chrissy, in my online forums and Vlog, I go by Cricket. I grew up in Northern Ca and raised many farm animals along with our children, most of my life. My hubby and I moved to an area for about 13 years where we were unable to have anythin
Read more…My 7 year old has never had a baby and I have never milked her. Her udders would look full every year and then go back down. The last couple of years they didn't go back down and this year they got huge. The vet said I had to milk her. Now it's e
Read more…I have a 2 year old nd doe named Baby. Her mother gave birth to a massive male ( who was born dead) and a teeny little girl who was very small but perfect. Mom's cried for her dead baby but refused to let Baby nurse at all so I milked Cupcake (named
Read more…My Ginger girl, the first baby born here, had a horrible tragedy with her first litter in March of 2016 and both were lost. I did milk her; her first month's milk went to help a rejected kid elsewhere.
I was heartbroken because I believe she would hav
Hello my name is Daniella. A little over a year ago I acquired 3 ND goats(2 does, and a buck).. the buck I got from a "professional breeder" as a baby and the 2 does(one was 2 years old and the other 4 months)from a hobbiest. the older doe was preg
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We recently got 2 doelings in Mid-December. They are darlings. We got them from breeder and they both had suffered from scours prior to bringing them home (they believed the goats got into something they should not have because entire herd
Read more…Hi my name is Mia, excited to be here. I live in Oregon with my 1 1/2 year old daughter, husband, two dogs, two pigs, two sheep, one chicken and of course Jane and Scarlett our Nigerian dwarf goats. We recently inherited these animals with the farm l
Read more…Hi, I recently had a 3 month old male kid diagnosed with Seborrhea, wet dandruff. He was treated and it's dried up now and he's doing well but still has these bald patches on his skin. Anyone know will they heal, will the hair grow back? We were ho
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I would love to get some expert opinions on whether or not this little goat house can be retrofitted to also serve as a milking parlor.
We run a school farm and this is our first adventure in kidding & milking. I have been drawing up plans t
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