I want to walk my goats. Do I use a harness or halter? Where do I get these from.
Thanks
Read more…I am really stressing over this decision. I think I know where I stand based on lineage, price etc. I guess I would like some honest opinions based strictly on his appearance. Do any of you have an opinion. The one thing you would need to know is age
Read more…After a year of thought/research, we will be starting our goat venture this weekend with the arrival of 2 doelings & 1 wether. The plan is to use the moveable pen & put them up in the barn at night. On feeding minerals, baking soda, etc. free choic
Read more…For those of you in Illinois, we are participating in a Farm Crawl today, which is your opportunity to visit four different farms. We are all located off I-55 halfway between Bloomington and Joliet. As for seeing goats, in addition to our Nigerians a
Read more…I am getting ready to band my three bucklings and have been reading a lot about administering a tetanus toxoid. I am raising organically and wonder if there is anything else that can be used to stay organic or if I should just skip the tetanus toxoid
Read more…I am going up ta a friends farm who is having a terrible time with parasites. She had tried an Herbal wormer, and had zero success. I know there are barber poles, round worms, and tapes in the fecal. The plan is to use Ivomec Plus. My question is
Read more…I think I have a problem. My Nubian buck just jumped my 5' fence and may have bred my Nigerian Doe.
How serious is this? Would she be able to carry and birth it?
Ekk!
Read more…Does anyone or should we feed alfalfa pellets free choice to does?
Mine have grass hay in front of them all the time. Unfortunately, their browse/grass is usually limited. Minerals, kelp and baking soda are free choice and a mineral block if they wa
Read more…We are the proud new owners of a new little doeling who will be coming home in about 12 days at 10 weeks old! I am having a hard time figuring out how to separate her from the three goats we already have. First off, I bought all of my first goats f
Read more…I just discovered this page and wanted to share it with everyone. It includes some really excellent advice on buying goats!
http://www.promisedlandfarm.net/caveatemptor.htm
Updated Feb. 16, 2014
Keith Harrell, the breeder who had this website, died
Read more…I keep seeing people mention that they give kelp to their goats. I have to wonder why? Does it help them in some way?
Read more…Hi, everyone...I'm soooo happy I found this web site!
I bought three bred Nigerian Dwarf does and have never had this breed before (haven't had goats in almost 40 years). All three are due in late October.
We purchased the goats three weeks ago and t
Read more…I would like to make my goats something easy, cool and well cheap that they can play on. I'm 15 and would like to use scrap wood my dad has laying around. They have a plastic baby playground in there fence, a piece of a tree stump and an old dog hous
Read more…Ivermectin or safeguard?
I used Ivermectin, but I really think it should have been a white wormer.
Ideas?
Thanks
Read more…Can goats eat zucchini and squash? I have several that have grown out of control and are too big/tough to eat. I hate to throw them away and thought I would give them a little each day. .
Read more…Today, I went on a Comfrey quest in my routine travels; empty handed I returned. So, I went to Coe's website and order two Comfrey plants. One of these will be planted in the goat area, protected of course, and will be the first plant of their offi
Read more…Well, we brought our boys home thursday and they are aout 6 weeks. They arent really interested in the bottle, we try a few times a day. they are eating a little grain and hay. We weighed them tonight so we can monitor them better. We are new to
Read more…I know there are way too many questions out there about feeding, but here is another one! I have one 35 lb buck , one 26.5 lb wether and two does 24 lbs and 25.5 lbs, all of them about 4 months old. They boys are in one area and the girls in anothe
Read more…During a discussion about how dangerous hay racks could be for goat kids HERE , Margaret came up with this idea for using a crib rail to make a hay rack. I though it was a great idea, and set out right away looking for a free crib to use for the pr
Read more…I just bought a baby nigerian so it will b a while b4 I breed her but I wanted to see if anybody has bred there goats with AI. If it would b similar to regular size goats. We have bred our boer goats with AI and have had success. Where I might b able
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