Hello everyone! I'm 6 mos and 5 goats into my diary goat adventure! My little buckling "Windy Pond's Gandolf The Grey" (big handle for such a small guy), I just call him Gandolf is now 6 mos old. I am reading myself into overload, what the heck is sa
Read more…My doe, Spot, loves people and loves to be petted and talked to--however, she does not have a lot of patience with time-consuming things like being brushed (or milked, but that's another story...) She has seriously flaky dry skin right now, and I tr
Read more…Today I noticed some sticky, thick mucus being excreted from one of my pregnant does. She seemed fine, standing around, very hungry for tree branch leaves.
Isn't this similar to when pregnant human mothers' mucus plug slowly thins and falls out/is
Read more…I have a doe who I bought a while back to keep my whether company, who I bought for $100 from a guy who told me (not in very good English either!) that she wasn't a particularly good quality doe, and since she was in a small dirty barn, covered in m
Read more…Hey all,
I never really introduced myself yet, so decided to take some time to do so. My husband and four children and I are homesteading (and homeschooling) on 1.5 acres in northeastern MN. We have vegetable and herb gardens, chickens, rabbits and
Read more…Ok I am apparently a stupid, horrible goat mom. I *knew* the buck was in rut but I thought he would focus on the adult Nigies and leave the two Lamancha doelings alone. Plus I thought the LMs were more seasonal breeders and I didn't expect them to co
Read more…Below is a link to my blog. I got a funny video of my goats while doing pictures with santa hats and antlers :-)
http://nigerianmeadows.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/christmas-goat-video/
Read more…Hello everyone. My wife and I are brand new goat owners having purchased three Nigerian Dwarfs does two weeks ago from a homesteader in Vermont. Two of the does are older and freshened in June, the third is one of the kids born at that time. The prev
Read more…My family and I have an "Urban Farmette" in our back yard South of Phoenix, home to four of us, two dogs, two rabbits, six hens, and of course our two Nigerian Dwarf Does, Spot and Audra Belle.
Spot is five years old, an experienced mom who came to u
Read more…Made a batch of cajeta last night.2 qts milks,2 cups sugar and 1/2 teaspoon baking soda.Cooked it for ever(had to turn it off for a little bit when I went out to milk).It came out yummy.We are just eating it by the spoonful.Really good is a little sp
Read more…I was looking around about Hoof Trimming and keep coming up with stuff about Proper Trimming for Show Goats...Since I do not intend to show my goats how often do I need to trim my goats hooves?...They are in soft pasture all the time and have no acce
Read more…It's pretty sweet when I can bring goats into my business homework. I couldn't think of what I could do for this assignment, so I said to David, " IF I were going to start a business, what would i do." He said, " I don't know, something with goats I
Read more…My 3-yr-old doe refuses to stop producing milk. I took her off sweet feed and alfalfa over a month ago and she's just getting coastal hay and plain grain. She was at the breeders for a week in November and in with the buck for 3 days so I'm really ho
Read more…I've officially started to double their feed during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy.
I'm expecting 4 does to have babies very soon !
The first 2 are a mystery, but the time range is narrowed down to Dec. 23 to Dec. 29.
The other 2 are expected to give
Read more…I still have my babies for sale but I am also looking for a buck that is not related to my herd to breed to. Also have an American Alpine buck that needs a girlfriend. Willing to work with you call 607-522-7981
Read more…I am a newbie to goats with a doe and a doeling. I purchased the doe bred, or "probably bred". The breeder's exact words were "I hope it took". Were proceeding under the assumption that it did. When I saw the doe I immediately thought she must be
Read more…My wife and I are looking into getting two Nigerian Dwarf does. We live on 1/5 an acre in town, we currently have a few chickens but are looking to expand our backyard menagerie. I was wondering if any of you had any ideas for small goat barns and
Read more…Moses is 2 DAYS old and has bright orange mushy BM. The one I saw earlier appeared to also have a clear-cloudy white mucus bubble. He seems fine otherwise. His two prother's have typical black tar.
I will try to get enough to do a fecal on him in t
Read more…Yullo.
My name's Paige and Ii'm eleven and own two lovely NDGs, Cocoa And Lena. They are my pride and joy and I am hoping to show Lena as soon as I feel she is fully leash trained. She's doing quite well, but only alongside her half-brother, Cocoa.
Read more…This is my first winter with my goats and am wondering what's too cold for them? My does I am not worried about so much, they are in the bottom of this old house on our property and the walls are literally 18 inches thick concrete. It stays fairly
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