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Not Pregnant?

At the end of April, we brought a buck in who spent about a week and a half with my girls. The older doe didn't seem to come back into heat and gained weight over the summer, so we thought she was pregnant.  However, this is our first time breeding s

Barn Cats and Nigerian Dwarf Kids

Hi! Do you know if anybody has had problems with barn cats after kids are born? We have four and I have been sleeping in the barn for 3 days. The cats have big eyes and have come into the goat pens. The mother goat hits them with her head, but I am

Metal barn cameras

Does anybody recommend a good cheap metal barn camera? Need something that works and is reliable.

Thanks..

Bloat

I bought a mother goat with her 10 day old singleton. She's been fed sweet feed.  She looks bloated to me or like she is still pregnant.  Is this normal in Nigerians?

I think I have a surprise coming!

Ok here we go!  When I got home from work this evening, I let the goats out to graze as usual.  I noticed Fern who has been dried up for months had an udder soooo big I could not believe it.  I grabbed her and put her on the milking stand and milked

traveling and expecting

Ok, as it stands right now we are expecting kids the 29th and 31st of January. We normally go out of town for a week at Christmas to Dallas. We have someone set up to come by twice a day, and feed the animals etc, They could take the goats to the vet

Your first goat birth!

I just posted a pictorial of Sherri's birth on the Antiquity Oaks Facebook page, and someone said that it would have been nice to see pictures like that before her first goat birth, because she thought that bag of red-tinged fluid meant something was

Kidding

Is it possible for a breed doe to give birth before 5 months? It seems to me that we have 3 out of 4 does pregnant.  Two are not being milked anymore because they only give 1/2 cup of milk or less a day and the milk turned slightly yellow.  The one t

new babies

I'm not sure I know how to use this site yet, but wanted to announce the birth of two new babies yesterday. One is larger than the other and seems to be the only one nursing the last two times I've been out there. Brownie (the smaller one) has nursed

My first goat birth

I promised to share my experiences with my first kidding, so I decided to start a mini-blog beginning with the first signs of labor.  

Trauma, aka Queenie, is due anywhere from September 4^th to the 13^th since the previous owner “pen bred” her.  This

Difficult birthing

Hi all,

Ultrasound equipment

Does anybody recommend using any particular ultrasound equipment?

A Tip on disbudding

We had our first kids arrive during the Super Bowl and have begun the kidding season, and with that the awful task of disbudding. Many years ago I watched my first disbudding and it was not pretty. The kid flicked his ear onto the disbudding iron and

Disbudding

Hey folks

So my doe, Chutney is due to kid next month and I'm going to need to get myself a disbudding iron.  Back in the day I disbudded calves at the University of Connecticut so I'm familiar with the process (yet definitely out of practice), but

Web Cam

Kidding has started at Tiny Tales Farm.  We have turned on the web cam.  It can be viewed by going to our web site,  www.tinytalesfarm.com   and clicking on the link on the home page.  Click on 'View Video'.  Then click on the small box with the dot

Birthing signs

Hi fellow goat-lovers, I have a pregnant goat (didn't plan on it), and am not quite sure when conception was. What should I look for (and how often) in trying to tell when she might have her kid(s)? I have two older wethers and two older wether sheep