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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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 4th to the 13th since the previous owner “pen bred” her. This
Read more…Hi all,
Does anybody recommend using any particular ultrasound equipment?
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
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