Our new triplets....they were born on Dec. 9th.
I purchased our doe, Cinnamon in July.
This is my first time to own Nigerian Dwarf's.....what a pleasure they are.
The "boys" are so cute and lovable.
Read more…Annie is almost exactly 3 months along and there is a noticeable change in her udder. I dried her off back in Sept. Well, started dryign her off. I'm not sure when exactly she started to look really empty.
But anyway, it doesn't look like it's f
Read more…What are your go-to resources for ND/general dairy goat info? Besides this site, of course ;)
Read more…Just wanted to share with you my experience on buying dairy hay yesterday. For the first time I had to buy alfalfa hay from another provider other than my parents who grow their own for the beef cattle. It is terribly dry in my area and we didnt have
Read more…I was reading a thing on someones website that said you can breed twice a year if you don't want to milk.. which made mw think, if you aren't milking them would it wear them down like it would if you milked them and bred them right back for babies in
Read more…How old are nigerians when they stop growing. I have seen goats for sale that went over the maximum height. Just wondered how many months old are they when they stop growing?
Read more…so i am pretty new to keeping goats although i have worked with animals of all sorts for most of my life...how do you decide to keep a male and make him a buck or to wether him? reading the ADGA conformation outline doesn't give me enough to go on. i
Read more…So it has been very wet were we live and Monday I went to to trim hoofs and found that a few of the goats have hoof rot. It has only been 2 months since I last trimmed them and did not expect there hoofs to be so bad. They were not even that over gro
Read more…I was wondering if this would be easier for a newbie and/or less expensive than being on the official program. Or any other advantages? I don't even know how we will do at our first year of milking a herd. I don't want to take on to much trying to te
Read more…I always thought that if a kids dam and sire are blue eyed then that kid is homozygous for blue eyes but tonight I was told otherwise. Does any one know how blue eyes work?
Read more…I have two month old kids that I noticed this morning have runny noses. One of them the snot is green the other is not. They are acting normal. Running playing and eating. Took there temp and it is normal one temp is 102.8 and the other kids temp is
Read more…I'm in the process of putting together a sales page for my farm blog. I'd like anyone who wants to to critique this information. What do you think of this in terms of a plan? What do you think of it as info. for potential buyers to see? Is it to
Read more…ADGA Registered Doe w/ Homozygous Blue Eyes - THE DALLES, OREGON
CAE Tested Negative
Born: June 9, 2008
Caprinos SA Tiny Dancer
Sire: Poppy Patch RC Stowaway
(Twin Creeks Rebel W/O a Cause X Poppy Patch BT Shirley Temple)
Dam: Cedar Vally Farm Mi
I've read that Sericea Lespedeza is good for goats, but some consider it a noxious weed and it's banned in some states. I've also read that some people use Korean Lespedeza in their pasture mix for goats. Which do you think is better?
Also, what abou
Read more…Does anyone know where I could get a list of ADGA shows that will be in Oregon for 2013 ? I would love to attend some shows next year but have no clue how to find out where and when they would be. Any advice welcome!
Read more…Does any one have experience w/ a lambar feeder for Nigerian kids? I would like to bottle raise my kids but can not be there to feed every 2 hours, so was thinking a lambar feeder would work but I can't find any w/ nipples small enough for the Nigeri
Read more…Hey guys...here is one dilemma I have. I am feeding home mixed whole grain (well, I did last year and I will once the girls are milking). It is not a complete feed & not foritified with anything.
Think I could just give them a children's chewabl
Read more…I have a doe who has always looked funny b/c of her teeth, they are always showing( like they are to big for her mouth). I had never really payed attention to it but to day I got her up on the table and had a look and they look way to long to me. I h
Read more…I am so confused. So the other day I went to draw blood from Abby, my junior doe, to run her CAE test. I shaved the righg side of her neck and was trying to find the jugular but couldnt find it, so I gave up. I was just watching some blood drawing vi
Read more…Ok. I have a doe that is almost 2 and is pregnant for the first time. She shouldn't be due until middle of January, but the udder that is forming is telling me that somehow the buck got her before I put them together. Through the fence maybe? I don't
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