Hello everyone. At this point I am thinking of starting my own website. I am fairly computer literate but have never done anything like this before. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Read more…well.....on my part not on my does part. She is due today. Yesterday I started thinking about how to take care of all the little poop piles in her pen. The pen is roughly 500 square feet, and so far housing is just 2 large dog houses and a tarp.
Read more…My oldest (and I'm pretty sure pregnant) doe lost all her winter undercoat pretty suddenly.
Along with her lost undercoat, she seems to be more bony than my younger doe. She has also started shivering... I live in Oregon. She and the younger goat are
Read more…I am a new owner of two pregnant does. One is obviously expecting in the next few weeks. The other...not so much. She is checking her own urine and demonstrating the flehmen response. Any idea what this is about? I've read about does checking their k
Read more…Finally!! She started labor at 9 pm last night. I was out with her until 1:15 and when I saw her snozing I felt cheated! I went to bed and went back out at 5:15 hooray! a doeling, 4 lb. and a buck little under. the doe is chamoise (spelling??) w
Read more…As some of you may know we are starting from scratch and we are planning on leaving the floor of the barn alone. My question is this, how do I prepare the ground before I put in straw for the girls?
Do I need to put in a layer of sand or gravel to he
Read more…I think one of my goats is biting the hair off of the others goats or maybe the hair is breaking/cut off. I don't know. They still have a very nice think undercoat but their long hair is now short. Anyone have any ideas what is going on? A few of the
Read more…How long do you all usually separate the recently freshened doe and her kids from the rest of the herd?
Read more…Seeking 2 baby doelings with great milk genetics and conformation. Preferable not too much black in the coloring. Let me know if you have some available and where you are located.
So I'm venting about the weather.... it has been pouring rain for days and the winds last night were awful! My husband is out of town in sunny Arizona (of course!), but meanwhile I am stuck at home dealing with this mess. The worst part of it is th
Read more…After your girl gives birth when do you start to milk and how often. Do you always need to continue milking after the baby no longer needs to nurse or will the mother dry out on her own. I work full time and will need to find time in my schedule to
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Well the time is quickly coming that I need to start tattooing the kids. My question is there a certain sequence of numbers/letters that you have to use? Do you typically use the first two letters of your farm name or just a variety of numbers or
Read more…For many years I've been thinking about setting up a homestead, I just didn't have a house or land of my own. Well we finally have a home on an acre in NC. Having organic food and raw milk has always been important to me and with the laws ever chan
Read more…Someone I know is considering a doe that has the same buck in both sides of her pedigree. He is a grand-sire on one side and a great-grand-sire on the other side. This could be ok, except she has done a little research on this buck and his progeny
Read more…Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats from excellent bloodlines for show or milk!
Spring kidding season is in full swing and we will have babies & adults available for sale. Currently have 1 adult doe available in milk, a few doelings born this Spring, a couple
Hi, My daughter's buck is a sweetheart but he has a very annoying habit now of pushing his head forcefully at you, hands, legs, whatever is near his head. He seems to want to be petted but he does not stop even if you pet him. And he only likes pett
Read more…I found this website very interesting and signed up. My son always wanted goats and we always had other animals and I always turned him down until he started asking for a large house dog. This wasn't such a good idea because I had two stray cats in
Read more…Hello everyone,
I have a doe who came to me pregnant, but with several possible due dates, the first of which was today. This is her 6th freshening, so she is a pro and has had anywhere from 1-4 per kidding. She isn't as wide as I would think for 4
Read more…After staying up most of the night I missed the early morning birth of the triplets. All are doing well even though it was cold toward morning. She had 2 doelings and 1 buckling.
Read more…These kids have great milk lines in their blood.
