Morning everyone!,
This is our first full year with goats, and I always have lots of questions when it's the first of everything! We did everyone's CD & T shots yesterday. One goat is a little limp on her leg, still able to walk, jump, eat, poo, dri
Read more…Hi Everyone! My name is Sue Dowdy, and I live in southern Iowa on 80 acres. I have always been a country girl, but am totally new to goats. My 13 yr old granddaughter, Taylor, and I are purchasing 2 milking does, 1 kid buckling, and 1 kid doe fro
Read more…Last year, we had a problem with our doe kidding. One foot was in the wrong place and no one could help. Even the vets tried and she ended up having a c-section and we lost the kid. It was very heart breaking. Our first year kidding with the Nige
Read more…Hi, I'm a new goat owner (wether and doe, Nigerians) in Arizona. Immense fun seeing the neighbors reaction in our (sub)urban neighborhood! Both are 2-3, need some work to be comfortable with me. Any hints on training?
Read more…I have a selenium Q...
So I know that you CAN overdose on Selenium, and that some of the toxicity symptoms are identical to deficiency symptoms.
MY DILEMMA IS THIS:
I wonder if selenium is effecting my doe's fertility, and I worry that increasing the
Read more…From "listening" to what others do it sounds like first breedings are usually done when a doe is around 1 year old. My understanding is that goats are not fully grown until between 2 & 3 years old. In other mammels it is usually reccomended that br
Read more…I have a buckling that was just born 12 hours ago. We noticed right away he was having trouble getting up on to his back legs and when he did he walked on his toes not his hoof. I checked on him this morning and he is getting around better but still
Read more…Hello everyone! I recently bought two does, a buck and a wether from a great farm in South Florida. My husband and I love the Nigerian Dwarfs and enjoy them everyday. I have a lot to learn and really enjoy reading the posts here.
Read more…I had my second goat have kids on Saturday. It was a long day and she was panting heavily since 11:30 AM on Saturday. She finally kidded at 5:15PM. She would cry anytime I left her alone. She was up and down every minute and could not get comfort
Read more…I bought this last year and have not been able to get it to work.
http://hambydairysupply.com/xcart/product.php?productid=383&page=1
I have seen it work at the dairy I bought our goats from up in Vermont. But I can't get mine to work.
Read more…Okay, my little Nigies are 9 months old now. I adore them but I have a little problem. The little doe, Phoebe, screams her head off when she comes into heat every month -- for about 3 days.
When I say scream...I mean blood-curdling, piercing, non-s
Read more…I found my doeling writhing on her side in pain around 10:30 last night. I brought her in and she grew worse during the night. Right when I brought her in I gave her nutridrench, she perked up for a bit, but then declined again. I tried to bottle fee
Read more…Dolly kidded last night with a Buck & a Doe. The buck came first and was HUGE! She had some difficulty getting him out. Poor girl :( Everyone is well now :) She is FINALLY happy in her kidding stall too!!!
Read more…I can tell that it is going to be a BAD year for ticks here...I've already found two on two different goats. How do you treat goats for ticks? (one is about a week out from kidding, BTW).
Thanks for any advice.
Read more…One of our goats is being bothered by her left hind foot, but I can't figure out why.
Whenever she's on a hard surface (I don't see it as much when she's on grass or straw) she simply won't stand on that foot, she'll keep it lifted off the ground.
Read more…I read some other threads but they were all dealing with milk amounts in lbs and I have not weighed mine.
The twins are exactly a month old. I started milking at two weeks, maybe three or four times a week. I have milked her every day this week.
Read more…Hello, newbie here and very computer illiterate so bear with me please. So happy to find you all. You have been both informative and entertaining. I have a couple of questions. Are the alfalfa pellets fed to goats, rabbit pellets or are they differen
Read more…My kids are eight weeks old and were disbudded at nine days old. I did the two bucklings first, so of course I did the poorest job on them. A few weeks later, I noticed little bumps and thought I would need to redo the disbudding but then one bucklin
Read more…Marble, our goat, had her kids today!
Starting at like 3:20 2/26/12.
She had three, a buckling, a doeling, and another buckling.
Bambi http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww322/qwigoqwaga/IMG_4450.jpg
Abby http://i732.photobucket.com/albums/ww322/q
Hey all...I am seriously pondering getting rid of my wether who has large scurs. My buck is polled and has had frequent bloody heads from playing with his companion (wether).
Now I have a polled buckling that we've decided to keep. (He's blue eye
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