Hello I am a newbie, I just got a 4 week old billy on Friday. I am bottle feeding him and it is very fun! He is such a charachter. I have had a pygmy in the past but that was quite awhile ago. His personality really is coming out lol.
Read more…I'll be at the Mother Earth News Fair in Puyallup next weekend, both days. If any of you are in the area, let me know, and maybe we can meet for lunch or something! It would be so fun to meet some of you in person! More info on the fair is here:
Read more…1) My curiosity is getting the best of me! Is it SO hard to disbud and not have scurs later? I see all these pics of goats with NO scurs. And hear all the advice about disbudding. Yet I have goats from 3 different farms with scurs. WHY...? This is wh
Read more…Remember I am pretty much computer illiterate and electronically challenged, so if I am out of line because what I am asking is a lot of trouble I apologize. I JUST FIGURE FOR SOMEONE SO COMPUTER SAVVY, IT MIGHT NOT BE TO MUCH TROUBLE! BUT I have a
Read more…Do kids always have to get flour all over the kitchen? They do if they have four legs and their name is Marley and someone leaves the door open and lets them get inside. LOL! She looks so cute with flour all over her widdle face! If you haven't se
Read more…I have been milking my 2 FF 2x a day since Dec or so.They freshened in Sept.They are both bred again for another Sept freshening.I will be drying them off in the end of June.Right now they are producing as well as they have been all along.Maybe even
Read more…I notice this morning that one of my doelings had weepy eyes she has what looks like sleep in her eyes white with a slight yellow tint to it. This afternoon she still has it but now I have three other kids with watery weepy eyes. Is this Pinkeye and
Read more…Finally,we have beautiful twins, that were born and on their feet about an hour and a half after the stringy goo. First came an almost carbon copy doeling of mom and then a beautiful buckling with coloring like I have never had, and I think he is so
Read more…We recently had a conversation about copper boluses in which a couple of people had noticed a lot of hair loss in connection with the timing of the boluses. This picture is awful but I can't seem to get it to look like it does in person. This is the
No one ever talks about making goat butter! I want to make butter. Does it work? Why does No One ever talk about making this delicious, yummy stuff? I want butter with garlic and herbs in it spread on fresh hot toast! YUMMY!
Read more…I have oxytetracycline on hand. Anything else I would have to get and depending on if it is available locally, not sure how long it would take to get it here. Question, Should I give mom antibiotics since I had to go after that bent leg or not, and i
Read more…OK I have decided to sell the little doe Morning Glory that was born on the same day as my twin bucks. I am asking for a fifty dollar retainer and the total cost is 200.00 she is registered with NDGA and I hate to part with her but I can not bread he
Read more…This is our first time kidding and milking, so we'd appreciate some input form the "Voices of Experience". Our doe kidded 3 weeks early with 2 doelings. The first sadly died after a half hour. The second lived! Hubby and I rotated shifts for the
Read more…Now that my first doe has kidded (with a single 4 lbd. buckling), I'm beginning to milk her. I'm not taking her baby away from her, just milking AM and PM, attempting to keep her udder even and help her produce more milk. The first attempt she was
Read more…Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goat doelings and bucklings. These are healthy and beautiful little goats. Our line comes from Antiquity Oaks in Illinois. Deborah just notified me that both dams and our sire's dam were all on AGA's top 10 list for 2011 one-d
Read more…I am trying not to be too excited. We are traveling about 170 miles down in Maine to pick up not one but two bucklings and.... a little white polled doeling. The genetics were right , the timing was right and the price was right so hubby said, "Go fo
Read more…Last year I purchased raw goat milk in half-gallon containers and have just started again this year as it became available. (My doe is still nursing and I am only milking a little each day for us to both get the hang of it and will start separating
Read more…FINALLY babies!! To top it off, my dam has a history of bucklings and singles. She had TWINS, and DOELINGS!! They look just about identical to her. lol I weighed them today... the smaller of the two weighed 3 and 3/4 lb. and the larger weighed 4 and
Read more…My goat freshened last year for the first time. She had 2 kids - when I would milk her she was sensitive to my milking on one teat. I noticed the kids seemed to prefer one over the other.
Now she is bout 2 weeks away from kidding. That same teat she
Read more…This was my first time ever disbudding. I disbudded Shamrock on May 4. One of his scabs fell off last night. I'm wondering if these pics will help show you all what it looks like. If you can, please let me know if it looks right. It is sort of a
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