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
Read more…We decided to cut a feed out of our babies eating schedules in hope that they will start to eat more grain. Only 1 is eating consistently and the other 2 just nipple. All they want is milk. They are acting like I am killing them today. LOL AnnaBe
Read more…When answering a question on here, it occurred to me that I hadn't mentioned that my book, Homegrown and Handmade, is now available for pre-order from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, as well as Chapters Indigo in Canada. It will hit the big chains in earl
Read more…When is the right time to introduce my new goats with my other goats. I have two goats (Moose & Lola ), they are a 1yr old. Recently I rescued Oliver, he's about 7 weeks old. We have keep him in his own pen. He's been to the vet for his shots and is
Hi all,
I'm a new owner of 2 Nigerian doelings. One was born 3/1, the other 3/16. Although I've grown up on a farm with horses, cows, chickens, and dogs...we never had goats. So, I have animals my whole life.
This is the problem: we purchased the ki
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Well, got the girls all settled and will include some photos of their digs. They have been here with me for 5 days, and have settled well. They are both 8 weeks old. I have been feeding hay free choice, 1/4 cup of purina goat chow am an
Read more…Hi, i'm Jenna Walker, and at this moment, i don't have any goats at all. in our family, i have at least one sister who can't have cows milk, but goat milk is okay, so my mom and i are doing research on ND goats, and hope to get 2 sometime. even tho
Read more…Yeah. We opened a new bag of food this morning and there were some large clumps in it, which isn't unusual as sometimes the molasses binder (or whatever binder it is) clumps up. I didn't think anything of it and fed the non-clumped parts to 6 of my d
Read more…Hi guys, later this month we will be bringing home our goats. We will start of with 1 wether, 1 buckling, and 1 doe (hopefully pregnant).
I have read a lot about the different mineral needs of males & females due to urinary stones, but am very con
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My name is Jaci (said like Jackie) and my boyfriend and I recently got 2 ND doelings. One is 4 1/2 weeks, Lamb Chop and the other is 6 1/2 weeks, Jasmine. I thought I had done enough research before getting them, but obviously the res
Read more…Maybe if I post photos, she'll take pity on me and show us who she's hiding in that belly! The "most likely" due date was yesterday!
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About a week and a half ago my wether had diarrhea which gradually became back to berries. My doe at that time had completely normal stool. I took both of their fecals to the vet and he said no cocci or worms for either. He suggested I was feeding to
Read more…When it rains, it pours ... My rent a buck ( rab) was moved in with my buck who lost his companion (the wether who died) and he (rab) got out and got into my compost pile for up to an hour. I gave him a baking soda drench and burped him several tim
Read more…Does anyone have any advice on weaning Buckwheat, (he's going to be 3 mos. old on May lst) off the goat milk replacer? I've been watering it down for him, giving him fresh hay and also, I bought goat feed, but he will not touch it. Any ideas? He alw
Read more…ok lets start at the beginning about a month ago I moved her mom and her to the barn, two weeks ago she started with diarrhea and hasn't stopped it is normal light brown no blood. She also just started her first heat. she had bova sera at the beginni
Read more…So far we've decided to get a pair of Nigerian Dwarfs because we seriously enjoyed the goats that we've had in the past. These are to be our companions and brush nibblers and just for the pure entertainment that they bring.
We were thinking of doing
Read more…Does anyone know of any copper boluses other than Copasure? My vet just looked into it for me and ended up having to call all over the place, including down to the US (I live in Canada) and found out from the manufacturer that it is backordered and t
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