From NE Iowa, and looking to add two nigerians to our acre homestead. Seems like a great goat forum.
Read more…I have 2 goats that are 7 months old. Came home after being out of town a night and my extremely friendly guy will not let me touch him, he is suddenly very hand shy..He obviously got in a head butt with the other as his head was a little bloody. T
Read more…Ok, this question is for everyone who tries to keep a clean barn- how on earth do you pick up after the goats?! Our 4 Nigerians are new to us this summer, and it seems we learn best from those of you have been doing this for awhile! We have horses, a
Read more…Our doe's two kids went to a new home this past Sunday. We had been milking her for a month, mornings only, by separating the kids at night and then milking 12 hours later. She kidded at the beginning of July, but we waited four weeks to start separa
Read more…I have two Nigerian goats and am thinking of getting chickens. How are they at co-habitating? Can the chicken food get the goats sick? Will the goats eat all the chicken feed?
Thanks
Read more…I just picked up my three does. I hope to add at least one other doe (maybe two) and a buck very soon. I cannot find minerals locally that does not contain the Aluminum Chloride. I wanted to order the minerals from Hoeggers. How much should I ord
Read more…Hi all! How exciting to find this web site! Here in Ventura County, north of Los Angeles, I am not meeting alot of people who know about, or are interested in Nigerians...yet! I am hoping to introduce them to our 4H club with my daughter, and we hope
Read more…The two does I purchased recently are in their last week of pregnancy. Lucy is quite big and her udder is coming along nicely. She spends most of her days trying to get comfortable. She is a 2nd freshener. Westie a FF is developing a sweet well attac
Read more…Hej from Sweden,
I'm not so sure which category to put this , sorry if I chose wrong.
We have had a very busy month of August. We had 3 does that kidded.
Pumpkin had kids for the first time August 22. One doeling and a buckling. The buckling was born
Read more…Where my goats pin is it has a lot of loose dirt and rocks. I am trying to keep it as clean as possible, but its hard with the dirt and rocks. Any ideas of shovels or rakes for the tiny pebbles?
Also, what is best for where they sleep? Straw or sha
Read more…My 6 month old weather seems to have always had a fascination for hammocks. Since I rotate my goats around the yard using cattle panel pens, I have to have a house that is a bit more... mobile than most. We had a wooden house to start with but after
Read more…This morning I was turning out my goats and the doe and the buck had a little love fest in the barn hallway. This is the first time I have been sure she was in season, they rubbed on each other and she stood for him to mount her.
I have been sepe
Read more…I have a doe due in 6weeks. Today She showed with a thick white discharge. I am wondering it I miscalculated her due date or is this normal. Her udder is still small.
Read more…I trimmed feet 2 weeks ago, then went back again yesterday and the feet on the adults were cracked and looked all jaggedy along the hoof wall. They looked worse than they did when I trimmed them 2 weeks ago. I trimmed off all the splitty parts and th
Read more…I'm so glad to have found this forum... Great information for a beginner like myself. My husband and I are retired and are getting 4 unregistered Dwarf Nigerian goats (3 does and a buck) in about 2 weeks. Just wanted to introduce myself and tell eve
Read more…The other day we went out to see about fencing for the goats. And I went to see if they had tiny halters ( goat sized, ya'know) and I also went to see about horse brushes.
I thought I could use a curry comb and a hard and soft brushes for them, becau
Read more…Has anyone ever tried to build a goat shelter from free pallet wood? There is a man about 15 minutes away that says he has about 300 pallets 50 shipping crates and some plywood each week that he needs to get rid of. We assume we would need to take th
Read more…I thought that my doe was ready to stop producing but after a few days of milking once a day, I tried to skip a day (three milkings) but she was uncomfortable so I milked her out. So I have since then been milking once a day and she is giving 12 oun
Read more…we have 1 yearling buck and 2 buckling for sale. we live in oregon. first picture is of our yearling buck. next picture is of the 4 1/2 month old buck and last picture is of the 8 week old buck.
The 8 week old buck dam Camanna Almond Joy did well in
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