My doe, Spot, gave birth ten days ago, and late yesterday and early today she had some bloody discharge. Yesterday she was also extra aggressive. She's otherwise fine. Could she be in season again already?
Read more…From the brink of death to this? I am impressed. She spent last night being a barn goat with her Mama and the rest of the herd. It was cold here last night so this AM she has a sweater until it warms up!
This afternoon, I noticed Capri who delivered a single doeling late Monday night has bloody discharge. Is this normal? Since this is my first kidding (her second), I have no idea about any of this.
I had noticed what seemed to be blood on the side
Read more…Today was the third day with the whole herd for my sweet Serafina. She has learned to get out of the way of the bigger goats. Her mama is keeping an eye on her but not hovering. I fed her today at about 10AM (she had a wake up bottle as well) then wh
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I just got my first doe in milking along with a 3 month old wether. She freshened with 2 kids but one died. I don't think she was cared for very well. I think the owner had a lot going on. I asked her questions about what kind of minerals she was giv
Read more…Hi, Looking for some advice... the great fencing questions... there are coyotes and feral dogs in the area where i live which is quite rural and somewhat forested. i am considering purchasing 6' fencing, digging a trench and putting 1' of the fencin
Read more…Our little bottle baby, Tinkerbell, had one of her disbudding scabs come off today, so I sprayed it with iodine. I am almost positive I did not get any in her eyes, but she wouldn't hold still, so I suppose it is possible that I did. I noticed this
Read more…I found this site surfing the web. I am currently researching the nigerian dwarf breed of goat in hopes to add a few to our farm in the future. I am looking for advise, info, pros/cons on these adorable lil goats. I am also looking for reputable bree
Read more…Yesterday she turned the corner! I have been trying to bottle feed her but she didn't take more than two or three sucks. I ended up tubing her regularly but last night she sucked down 2 ounces and then proceeded to explore the house. This morning she
Read more…Today was my first attempt at milking after seperating momma and babies last night for about 9 hrs. The kids are 5 weeks today. I only got a couple tablespoons. Now I'm worried I will do more harm than good by not letting kids nurse all night and get
Read more…I searched around a little on the site but did not come up with what I am looking for.Has anyone here built their own disbudding box ?What size did you come up up with?And if you did build one have you used it and do you have any special features y
Read more…We bought a puppy a few weeks ago from a goat breeder near our area. The puppy is 9 weeks old and is 3/4 great Pyrenees and 1/4 Anatolian. She was born in the goat pens and has been raised with them. The first week went great with her, but this la
Read more…I'm wondering what others are using as a daily feeding program?
I just got my first doe, from reading the forum I think she needs some copper suppliments... Her coat is coarse. She is a cream and white but mostly she just looks like a dirty white goa
Read more…Hello fellow goat lovers!! I'm new to having kids. I've read so many things about goats that I dont what to believe lol. I also know that everyone feeds there goats differently and I'm sure there are many different combos that are healthy for them. (
Read more…So I brought home my first goat this weekend. She is in milk... sort of. She has a pretty high production pedigree. Usually kids triplets or quads, but this time she she had a single doeling. The breeder I bought her from did not milk her. I was tol
Read more…Not sure if anyone can answer my question but here it goes. I registered one of my bucks last week with ADGA. I got his registration yesterday but his name is incorrect on it. What should I do? I really do not want the name they put on his registrati
Read more…Meet the newest addition to our little farm! I think I'm going to name her Lilith, after the fabled 2nd moon... since she faked us out so many times with her arrival (and her daddy's registered name is "Dark Side of the Moon"). Born last night.
Magg
Read more…I have been waiting for a good time to mention this. Now that Betsy has brought up disbudding it seems like a good time. I am not sure why I am so worried about this because I have docked tails/ removed dewclaws on pups, I V horses and all kinds of t
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