Ok so I had another question about when to start feeding grain (with many varied answers) but now I want to know, by the time your doe is expected to give birth, how much grain should you be feeding her by then? In ounces would be nice if you've ever
Read more…I have a doe, Spot, that kidded last week. She had triplets. We also have a doeling, Audra Belle, from last year's kidding who is nine months old (we bought her dam bred.) Today, I caught Spot letting Audra Belle nurse. Separating them is not re
Read more…Just learned about this site, which has good photos of goat colors, patterns, polled, and blue eyes. She also has a great explanation for how blue eyes and polled genetics work. Also has pictures of disbudded kids.
http://nigeriandwarfcolors.weebly.c
Read more…I'm just curious because we had a 7 month old wether whose scurs were getting bigger and we took him to a vet today who burned them off again.
I don't know exactly what happened since I didn't go.
But I'm just wondering if anyone would have done som
Read more…Just got my 1st ever kids home and want to start them on Molly's herbal wormer program.I read on her site of her program of doing kids with formula 1 -- 3 days in a row then formula 2 once a week for 3 wks then back to formula 1,etc.Doing this till w
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Somebody brought up other goats getting aggressive with new kids in another thread and I kind of chuckled, trying to imagine our doeling Audra Belle being aggressive with anything, ever--but there it is. She came into season today and in between try
Read more…Ok I am a first timer with this so I know that I may sound redundent to other posts or may ask silly questions.
I have a ND that ( I think) is pregnant. I say I think because her utters are really pronounced now and she was running with my buck. We
Read more…My Doe, Spot, gave birth two days ago. Since then she has gotten VERY stinky. It's intermittent so I think it's flatulence but I'm not sure. She smells kind of like the inside of our chicken coop (not an ammonia smell, I give the chickens somethin
Read more…Spot is due the 11th, and just now when my son and I went out to check on her she was lying down, panting, with a definite bulge back there. I spread her vulva and saw what I certainly could have sworn was a little pink nose.
Of course all the hum
Read more…Does anyone know for sure if you can tell if the baby goats are polled or horned based on their fur on their foreheads ? (smooth fur if polled, swirls of fur if horned ?)
Thanks !!
I guess in just a few weeks I'll know for sure (when the horns gro
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We have our 2012 Kidding Schedule up on our web page. Great Dairy and Show quality that include:
MCH Twin Creeks BH Bay Watch ++ *S E
ARMCH Rosasharn Tiger L ++*S E
ARMCH Goodwood Tom Thumb+*S E ++B
ARMCH Rosasharn's Tiger L ++*S E
ARMCH Rosasha
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We have a Doe in milk for sale in Kentucky $275.00. Plus: two other doe's. Check out our web site at:
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When should you start feed grain to pregnant does? And how much?
Because now I've heard a couple of different things.
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I have a funny question. I'm wondering if any of you have had a doe that had a major personality change when she settled. My doe Starlight was with a buck from December 1 to 23. About a week ago I noticed she was more stand-offish than u
Read more…As tends to happen when you have indoor/outdoor animals, we got invaded by fleas...They were pretty persistent on the dog, and it took a double dose of Advantage (2 weeks apart) and then finally the flea pill from the vet...
But in the meantime, th
Read more…I'm Hannah and we moved out to a more rural area in 2009 and somewhere along the way decided goats would make awesome pets. Last September (the day after my birthday actually) we bought 3 3 month old goats. Two wethers and a doe; Nibbles, Kara, and P
Read more…OK y'all I realize this may be my dumbest question yet...but when do kids start needing/wanting water and how do you give it to them? I use the smaller 2 gallon buckets in my barn and kidding stalls but they are raised to Mama height as I feared (wit
Read more…I made this video (I do a lot of them so people can learn and see more of these goats) and thought those here might enjoy it. We had a very cold night after really warm days and I was getting the kids tucked in with a heat lamp.
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I'd like to make some sweaters for my soon-to-be-born kids, however, I've never seen/handled a newborn ND in person and I don't know what dimensions to use. Can anybody give me an estimate?
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