Hello all,
I am new to goats, and we started with 2 does that were bred in March. Only 1 of the 2 got pregnant and she gave us 2 beautiful doe kids. The doe mom is polled and I checked the kids at 1 week and could not see or feel anything.
Now the
Read more…Monday evening I went out and gave all the babies their CD&T shots. About 30 minutes later one of my babies had a swollen left eye.. The eye was almost completely closed with some white discharge. I got on the phone with my goat expert friend and she
Read more…How do you control flies?
We moved our goats out of their usual house because there was poop all around it, but even out in the field there's flies. One goat in particular has flies all over her and she doesn't even seem to care! She's got a big bla
Read more…I have been playing around with quick fresh cheese that is vinegar coagulated.One question I have is besides flavor has anyone noticed differences in vinegars(apple cider vs distilled white)?
Next question --Why do the curds come out differently?One
Read more…Aloha
I was just wondering if anyone is making lotion with their goat's milk...and how that was working out...
Mahalo Deb
Read more…Thanks for letting me join! We have 3 does and I am trying to figure out the best way to have loose minerals and kelp available... We don't have a lot of space and I didn't really want to make a PVC feeder for each one as that would require 3... Howe
Read more…grain prices are souring can anyone tell me the benifits and cons of feeding cotton seed, and flax, instead of sweetfeed? was looking at prices and cotton seed is real cheap but I don't want to chance hurting the animals.
Read more…Could on of those fat separators work to get the cream off the top???? When our milk stays in the fridge there is at least 1/2 to an inch of cream at the top and thought about making some butter... Thoughts???
Read more…Just for fun...here is an update on Miyagi the superbuck's love life. I am going to another farm this weekend to see a mini mancha that I might buy. I just realized from reading an old post of Deborah's that if you breed a ND buck to a 1st gen mini
Read more…Hi
I have been so busy I haven't been on here for ages.Even to just read postings.Anyway one of my does kidded yesterday afternoon.She had 3 that are basically ok.Up,fuzzy and nursing well.However one has a rear leg that looks like it's knee is dis
Read more…Hi guys...
I have 3 does- Penny & Annie are twin sisters, 5 y/o, Truffle is 1 y/o. Day before yesterday when I let them out in the morning, there were nasty poops in the stall- soft, long turds with no pellets in them (not clumpy pellets). Truffl
Read more…We used Ricki Carroll's book, Home Cheese Making, to make ricotta from whole goats milk using a 1/4 cup vinegar and it did not make much cheese. It is supposed to make 2 pounds from a gallon. What did we do wrong? We heated the milk to 195 and then
Read more…Deborah,
I saw an old post of yours where you are talking about feeding kelp free choice. I have a horse who may or may not have a htyroid problem and I have read up on kelp to possibly help him and one thing I kept seeing in the horse info was ne
Read more…PHOTOS:
To make requesting critiques easier, you can share photos of your goat's udders, etc. in the SHOWING forum. If you'd like to list your photos so that they can be commented on individually, visit the PHOTOS section of the site (click the word
Read more…Friends have full-size goats with the dad wanting to make and sell cheese. Right now they have two adult does, one that just had a false pregnancy and the other they are starting to dry up. They have either two or three kids (does) coming up as we
Read more…Ok so I have decided I'm going to breed my Nigerian Dwarf Irena in November or December. She will be One year 9months by then and will be a first time mother. This will also be my first breeding and I have all these pros and cons, well the cons are t
Read more…I had my first goat cheese curds my mom got at a farmers market. It was good! I was the only one who liked it though!
Read more…We seem to be collecting ideas in various other threads on this subject and since I have this brain that likes to throw these ideas at me I thought I would start us a place to put them! If any of you have ideas or find a source for some of the things
Read more…So I got my first goat Piper who was supposed to be bred and now just 3 weeks from her supposed due date she is not showing any signs of being pg....no bagging up and still her regular plump self.
So tomorrow she is having a visitor for the next 3 we
Read more…Hi,
I'm new here, so I hope I'm posting this question in the right place...
Okay, here is the story,
I have a first freshener doe that had triplets 2 weeks ago.
She was a very bad mama (rejected the 2 bucklings), so we sold 3 kids as bottle babies.
