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Pregnant Doe Question

I have a yearling doe that I put in with a buck from April 18 to May 11 or so.  I saw him mount her, so I thought she was pregnant, but today she has a little bit of bright red blood on her vulva.  Is that a sign of heat?  Miscarriage?  She is taking

Difficult Milkers

My doe who is a first freshner is giving me a hard time when milking.  At first she was really good and didn't mind being milked but now she attempts to sit down when I try and milk her.  I've got her locked into the milking stand but she still manag

milking - separate kid or not?

I have a FF, kid is 9 weeks old.  She had twins, but I sold the wether yesterday.  He was getting the lions share of milk also even though I was separating them from Mom at night.  Since I sold him yesterday, and have no other kid to put with her rem

Goat in milk, 2 doelings, and 2 wethers for sale

ALL SOLD!  

I have decided to sell one of my milkers.  It takes me awhile to milk her and I would rather get rid of her and focus on better milkers.  We have to hold her leg up to milk her.  I will sell her as a pet, unregistered for $100 or I can

Homemade hay feeder

Hey guys...I am looking around at the junk all over my farm trying to think of something I could build into a hay feeder so they might waste less in their stall at night.

I have some vinyl lattice that looks like this (See pic)

I wondered if they

clumpy poop

My milker is making clumpy poop. All the berries clumped together. I am thinking that the protein is too high in the goat pellets I purchased. (None of the others have clumps from it though) I have bee feeding her extra because her milk production is

Website

Hi all, can anyone recommend a website to me that would have a list of plants that are toxic to goats?  Our babies are in our back yard for right now, but when they get larger they will be going into our field and we have a variety of plants, trees,

First Freshening.......Past due

My three year old Nigerian doe should have kidded around May 6th. Ligaments are mostly gone (I think....not a pro), bags are there, full but not tight and shiney. She stands on the fence when I come over, constantly eats and seems overall happy. Vet

Let's talk Goat Poo

Before I got these 2 baby goats I never expected to become so concerned about poo. LOL. But here I am everyday looking at the goat's poo, wondering what is ok.

So I know that little seperate berries is what you want. And log's are bad. But what about

Buck housing

Hi everyone!

I am trying to design my buck housing and need some opinions. My thought is an area 64' x 128' (since cattle panels come in 16' sections)-with the buck shelter in the exact middle. The shelter would have four closable doors (is closable

Tinkerbell Has Quads. First Timer

Well in all fairness, she had quads, but we lost the little buck. He had passed before we got home. Of course, after waiting weeks for an unknown due date....she had them while we were all at work and school. Found them when we got home about 3:30. O

Need some advice!

Our goats arrived on Wednesday a 7month old weather and an 8 week old doe.

The weather had to be dis-budded twice by the vet as they had not done it correctly the first time  We have just checked on the goats this evening and the horn has know lifted

Mineral Inhibitors...?

I just bought a couple garden hoses and realized that they contain LEAD! In fact, ALL my hoses did... and because leafy vegis especially will retain this lead, and realized I needed to replace the hoses that will be watering our food... and then it o

Not so Sunny California

Raining in May.......where is the sunshine ?????

We are kinda new to goats. Raised them as a kid, but that was a long time ago. Now my girls are raising Nigerians. We started out with two does and one whether. One of the does got really stressed on t

Under Developed Kid?

Hi there,

This is my first post, but hopefully someone can help me out.  Our doe just kidded 4 kids yesterday.  2 were still-borns, and 1 healthy, and 1 with a lame leg, and weak joints.  

I'm writing about the weak guy.  I thought we could maybe

How much hay?

Hi...

If our goats are turned out all day on pretty thick grazing, foraging, do they really still need hay when they come in for the night?  We won't leave them out due to lots of predators here.

Just exclude lactating does, late pregnancy does..

Unidentified tree...can anyone tell me if this is safe for goats?

Hi all...I have these trees in the pasture I want to use for goats but I don't know what they are.

We are in SW Florida.  Can anyone recognize these?

Cable spools??

Where does one find those great Cable spools I see in so many of the goat play area photos?  Are they expensive?  

Broody Hens Hatched Chicks!!

My broody hens hatched babies!!