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?
Read more…Some of you may have been watching the thread about my goat, Spot, and the kidding that wasn't.
My quandry is this: my son is thinking he'd like to show goats, and both Spot and Audra Belle are grade (although Audra's sire is AGS). We are "backyard
Read more…I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this but since I'm a newbie I figured 101 was appropriate. I have three does who have kidded recently...two on Friday the 6th and one on Saturday the 7th. The FF had a single doe, and the other two had t
Read more…My doe, Spot, is due the 11th, and based on everything I've read, she seems like she'll make it until then--her ligaments are softer but I can still feel them...(unless I'm feeling the wrong ligaments...they're definitely farther down on Spot than in
Read more…My FF and one of the senior does kidded about an hour apart today (though they were not bred on the same day). The FF had a one doeling and the senior doe had TWO doelings! My normall squeamish son is home on college break and was my assistant...he
Read more…My goats' "home" is a pen about 15' x 15' with a shelter along one side that they use mostly when it's raining. It doesn't get very cold here in Southern Arizona and they seem to prefer being out in the main area even to sleep.
The breeder I bough
Read more…Just some things I've been wondering.
First of all, we've been planning to breed our doe and everywhere I can find says that you should breed them once they've reached at least 70% of their weight, or at about 7 or 8 months.
Everywhere I look says t
Read more…I would like to start mixing my own grain ration for my milking does. It's starting to become more difficult around here to find fresh goat chow and my does are starting to turn their noses up to the stuff I do buy. We have lots of corn, oats and whe
Read more…So we start slowly adding or increasing grain in the last few weeks of the doe's pregnancy. Got it. But I would think we would also be adding in alfalfa at that time, in whatever form, for the protein and the calcium. Then my vet friend says, "no, y
Read more…We have just two goats, a 8 mo old doeling (Audra Belle) and a mama (Spot) who is due January 11th. They are housed in a pen about 15'x15' with a sort of lean-to arrangement against the outer wall of our detached garage as a shelter. It works reall
Read more…I was wondering if anyone knows if Squash and Squash plants are poisonous to goats? Also I have heard that black walnuts leaves are poisonous to goats I have a black walnut tree and one of my bucks has ate a few leaves with no problem. Is black walnu
Read more…We have 6 baby goats, born on the last 2 days of 2011 ! Finally got to witness and assist with the 3rd doe's birth (my kids got to watch too).
See our website (EM Squared Farms) under: Poppy's Babies, Baby Ruth's Babies and Tootsie's Babies.
They
Read more…Ive got 2 does that i think are sisters. There history is unknown. My friend bought them in March from a auction. After realizing how wild they were he sold them to my at the end of April. April was in heat and went strait to my buck he did his thin
Read more…My 8-month-old doeling is looking pretty chubby. She and her mama get a flake of alfalfa hay a day, BUT when they run around the yard she usually climbs up into my improvised hay "barn" and sneaks a snack. She doesn't get any grain or other supplem
Read more…We are going to have our first Hard Freeze tonight and I am wondering how my goats are going to take it...We are supposed to get as cold as 18F overnight....I realize for many of your farther north this is not big deal but we are in Florida and not r
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I am new on this forum and have a question about hay. I brought my first two does home a couple of weeks ago. I would appreciate information on what questions to ask when buying hay. What type of hay is best for my girls? I have a pr
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