I have a doe due march 9 last year she had triplets and had no problem nursing them. This year she is huge and I am afraid she may have quads or quints. She is a smaller doe that is not a great milk producer and I do not feel she would be able to fee
Read more…So my doe is due on the 16th of February, but I keep thinking she's going to have these babies anytime. Tuesday my friend who is a midwife came over because she's never seen a pregnant animal and wanted to see if she could hear the babies with her D
Read more…Just found this article and wanted to share it with everyone:
http://www.mtcapra.com/benefits-of-goat-milk-vs-cow-milk/
This is the best explanation I've seen of how goat milk is better for humans than cow milk!
Read more…My doe, Spot, gave birth 1/17 to triplets.
This is a digestive smelliness, not the uterine infection discussed before, which cleared up nicely.
During her pregnancy, I had been feeding alfalfa hay free choice, baking soda and Manna Pro minerals f
Read more…I have 2 pregnant does, first timers, Pygmy and Nigerian Dwarf crosses. They were having grain each day until I read on this site that you should not feed them grain, only hay. I weaned them off it, and use it only as a treat now. Seems to be fine. T
Read more…I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I have a goat that has both knee's all banged up. The fur is gone and he's constantly reopening the scabs. Is their something I can use to wrap his knee with or some other type of remedy ? I keep
Read more…My kids were disbudded at 1 week old by an experienced local farmer, and I felt very confident that they were done correctly, so didn't pay much attention to the burns since then--but now, at 3 1/2 weeks, I've noticed that all of them, even the doeli
Read more…I was asking a breeder about a 11-mo.-old doeling today, and she said she's hoping to get her up to 35 lbs by April so she'll be ready to breed.
I have a 10-mo-old doeling who looks much too small to me to be bred, but she's certainly near 35 lbs.
Read more…I know there's some things you're supposed to keep handy for kidding, so I want to know what everyone keeps.
What things would you consider necessary, and what other things are just nice to have?
How much of the stuff do you need right then and there
Read more…I have a Surge Belly milker with teat cups that was set up for cow. I need the inflators for ND do I need a different size teat cups or can I use the ones I have?
Read more…No milk after 8 hours!!??
Brandi is from good milking lines, has a good udder and teats, as well as large orafices (no spell check...?) She is a 3rd freshener, and kidded with triplets 24 days ago. I normally separate at 2 weeks but decided to wait a
Read more…Nice to meet everyone! I don't have goats yet, but I will once I have my own property (I'm still in college and living at home) I do have 10 little chickens and a big garden on two acres. I'm looking forward to learning from everyone on the forum.
Read more…Is it ok to breed a 1-yr-old doe with a ten year buck? And vise versa? Or is it generally not a good idea and something to stray from?
Read more…Penny is right in her delivery window based on the breeding I think took...
This morning I put her out to pasture and she just stood around hollering. I went to see her at the gate and it looked like her tendons were gone. Plus she wouldn't graze
Read more…My two kids (Penny's lol) are two weeks old tomorrow. I have been milking her ocassionally when they leave one side full. I would like to start separating them overnight and milk her. This is her third pregnancy (is litter the right word for goats
Read more…I am pretty sure that Tally is copper deficient. She is a black doe and has started to get rusty spots on her hind flanks, her skin is flaky and her undercoat looks to be shedding. She has fishtail but is not losing any hair on her face. She was real
Read more…I helped buttercup deliver triplets tonight! My first triplets ever. All girls! Woo hoo! They are beautiful. The first one, solid dark buckskin was stuck and I had to pull her. The others came on their own, and position right.
Read more…My hubby and I have 2.5 acres in the middle of the city. We have two handsome young men ages 2 and 3! Due to our oldest son having problems with most processed foods we make a good bit of our food from scratch. That of course led to us raising our
Read more…Hi! I am interested in purchasing a Nigerian Dwarf goat. I am doing research on them, of course, and can certainly use some advice.
I live in NYC, I have a house with a nice sized yard. I have 2 dogs and a mini pig. I am wondering if these goat
Read more…Yay! I am so happy and relieved ,I finally found a home for my 3 doelings born in Sept.And seems to be a good home too.Thank-you to all those who wrote and supported me in my post worrying about not being able to sell.Someone said to have patience th
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