I made this video as I was teaching our son (age 6) to train the baby goats. It's a lot of work to get kids to help with the training instead of hindering it, and I thought it may have some useful stuff for others here as well as just plain being cut
Read more…A hardware store near me sells welded wire fencing, one 5 ft high and the other 6 ft. high, both with 2x4 inch spaces. Would either of these be good fences for goats?
Read more…I currently only have 2 goats, a 5month old wether and a 7month old doe/ling (at what age will she go from doeling to doe??)...Obviously it is not good for the wether to get too much grain and since he is a little piggy when it comes to food he tends
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This is my first winter taking care of 2 doelings and a wether, and once again I have a diet question. I purchased some 3rd crop small bales of hay from a farmer and was told it was a grass/alfalfa blend. Now from what I'm reading alfalfa
Read more…Oh boy. So I came home from the store today to find my oldest daughter running around yelling at the goats in the next door pasture. Then I realized that my young 5 month old Phoebe had somehow gotten out (and left her pal Travis behind) and gotten i
Read more…I am just a small home dairy(2 does) ,I do not have a herd name or webpage.My 1st ever goats freshened in Sept. The kids are now 7 and 8 weeks old and getting ready to go to new homes.They come from dairy lines and can be AGS registered.Contact me fo
Read more…My husband and I brought home our first 2 ND 5 weeks ago and are loving every minute of it.
We have a wether Lil Boy Boots, whom was a bottle baby and the perfect playmate for our 3yr old daughter...We were blessed to have the oportunity to bond with
Read more…I don't know if any of you were aware of this resource, but thought it might be helpful. It's online and easy to search.
http://merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp
Read more…Okay, I am happy :-) We have been short on milk as I waited for does to freshen and reach the point I could milk, and this morning was the 2 week mark and slightly less for my just freshened girls :-) I am loving it! So, I put some pictures up on Fa
Read more…I have 2 FF that are nursing their kids.The kids are 7 and 8 weeks old and most definitely eating regular food.lots of it.It has been a little over 3 weeks now that I close the kids in overnight and milk in the morning.One questions is : does anybody
Read more…when applying dolomite to sweeten the barn floor do you just heavily shake it on or is it a light dusting? does anyone here use it? how do you apply it?
Read more…I have a little 3 mo old doe that has what appears to be dandruff, she is black and it is easy to see the flakes in her coat. She has access to loose minerals and has access to weedy alfalfa with 1/2 cup oats in the morning and evening, their beddin
Read more…Cleaned out the barn today, boy am I pooped. So question ,what do people do with all the shavings or straw that comes out of the barns ?? I do a deep cleaning a few times a year and a small cleaning once a month. The area were I've been putting my sh
Read more…I read that I red raspberry leaves help with healthy pregnancies so I started giving my does a pot of red raspberry tea in their water bucket but stopped after I read that red raspberry leaves are high in selenium and although my area is basically se
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We have a doe that is almost seven years old and kidded 4 weeks ago. One of her udders produced a little milk and is now not producing milk. There is no swelling or salty milk. Is this common in an older doe?
Thanks, Tammy
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Does anybody separate the bucks during rut? Our two bucks have been fighting to the point of heads bleeding.
Read more…Our farm is selling our AGS Nigerian Dwarf Polled Buckling. He comes from great milking genetics and will be a great asset to any herd. We are located in Richmond, KY and have him reasonable priced for $250. Please check out our web site at:
Read more…Located in Georgia. Rocky is an 8 mos old Jr herdsire. We have retained his full sister Lilly and bred a few does. His dam is an AR 4* doe. He is black/random white, frosted ears and nose with a few moonspots. See him at livinmydreamfarm.com. Reserv
Read more…I stumbled on this tonight and thought it may interest a lot of you.
http://www.scsrpc.org/SCSRPC/Publications/part5.htm
It made for very interesting reading, and explains why some of the alternative things I do with my goats actually work (I coppe
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