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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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,
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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..
Read more…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?
Where does one find those great Cable spools I see in so many of the goat play area photos? Are they expensive?
Read more…I will be picking up my first goats on Tuesday. i have always wanted goats but just never had the time. I am getting two kids one was born Good Friday and the other one was born Easter. Sometimes I have to travel what do you do with your goats when y
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