We are getting our first goats in a week and I've been reading alot about different bedding. The seller uses pine shavings for all of their paddocks and I use to use pine shavings for our chicken coop but they get everywhere and I found that we did
Read more…Hello, My name is Cheryl and I leave in Mohave Valley, AZ. My husband and I just recently moved from Reno, Nevada and we are loving our new home. We live on a little more than an acre of land. We are planning to raise chickens (have 7 coming soon) an
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I want to introduce you to Tammy Gallagher who will be a group moderator and help me answer questions here. She has been a member of my Goats 365 membership program since the beginning and has taken all of the Thrifty Homesteader Academy
Read more…What does everyone do to boost immunity in times of stress such as moving, transport etc?
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If I am going to use the moveable pens for daytime foraging for 4 ND's wethers when the weather is good, do you have recommendations for how large I would want the permanent pen area that would be attached to the barn, where they would ha
Read more…Can someone give me an idea of at what age kids are no longer likely to fit through the cattle panel openings? I'll have 4 wethers coming in the next 2 months and they'll be 8- 10 weeks old when we bring them in. The combination feedlot panels at Tr
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My name is David and we just moved to NW Washington state a year ago from Utah. As part of the move we wanted out of the suburbs and into the country for some land. We got a little over an acre to have us a small homestead.
Our plans so fa
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We live in the Harrisburg area of Pennsylvania on almost 2 acres with an old barn and wood sided garage. After years of taking care of other people's farm animals I am finally bringing in 4 NDG's of my own in about 6 wks.Two are does fr
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My husband and myself, with our 17 year old son, currently live in Montana on 26 acres with our little heard of 12 Nigerian dwarf goats, 2 dogs, chickens, and will soon have a few more piglets, as our last two are in the freezer! I li
Read more…Earlier in the fall I bought a new doe that Inintensed to practice AI on. It soon became evident that I would not get the chance to do that because she was already pregnant. When I brought this up to the seller she kind of said oops sometimes my buck
Read more…Two or three years ago, I came across a web page discussing the importance of only breeding full-blood Nigerian Dwarf bucks to Nigerian Dwarf does.
It explained the difference in skull sizes between Nigerian Dwarf and Pygmy kids and the more delicate
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 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 everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I've deleted Tracy Meltone from the site. She's the one who had two very odd posts -- one about fostering goats and one about electronic ID -- but basically they were sales posts, and she was linking to
Read more…How soon after miscarriage can I expect a doe to return to heat? Is it ok to breed her again on her next heat? Thanks!
Read more…I cant believe I havent found this group before now. lol I have had goats since ~2005. I started with two does and borrowed a buck (from the lady I bought them from) every year to breed them. When those does were getting older, I kept a doeling f
Read more…I have a 2-year-old first freshener that I'm milking. She's at 156 days. Her normal morning milk weight has been between 1#4oz and 1#2oz for the last week. (Evening is always a little less; I'm a little too lazy to stick to a 12-hour schedule.) She w
Read more…Hi thank you for letting me join this group. I am new to having goats and just brought home two 9 week old NDGs wethers (brothers) today. I have experience with sheep but know that there are differences in caring for each of them. I primarily wanted
Read more…My 9 month old wether has lost hair around his eyes and the bridge of his nose. He also has crusty sores on his ears and maybe a few around his nose. Last year, my older wether had the same symptoms and eventually had scaly skin on his tail and hair
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