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Milk stand help!

Ok we have the stand part completed, and are working on the Stanchion. We have been following the FiasCo Farms instructions, however we made our stand wider than that on the instructions 2feet wide and 4 feet long.  David can build things better than

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Minerals

I use Hoegger's Golden Blend minerals and my goats are really gobbling it up.  For 2 adult and 2 9 months old goats, they are eating nearly 2 cups in a week.  Is this ok?  Is it possible for them to overdose on the minerals?  

I have always left my m

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Minerals

My mentor and I have been discussing minerals lately because we have recently found a store that sells another mineral someone suggested. I feel reasonably certain everyone here agrees that Purina's minerals are bad because of the salt content.  Now

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Winter Woes

HELP!  I need ideas.  We lost our livestock housing....snow collapsed it.  Our goats are in the outside pen with a 4 x 6 wooden structure.  We can't lock it up.  Now we have soooooo much snow  they are just jumping / walking over their 4 ft fence.  W

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CAE

How common is it to have problems with CAE with Nigerians?  I will bring home my first Doe this spring. I have 2 Nubian weathers at home who were bottle fed.  I had blood samples sent to Purdue last week to test my weathers for CAE and Johnes --I wan

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Tiny teats!

Isabel freshened for the second time 3 weeks ago. She has a beautiful, and very well attached udder, but it is small and so are her teats. She had not been milked before 3 days ago.

She comes from good milking lines, so I am hoping that in the next f

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Twitchy legs ??

I was wondering if anyone else has seen this or heard of this. I'm very new to goats.

My question is , both my goats seem to have twitchy legs. All of a sudden , it's almost like they have a invisible fly buzzing around them. Does anyone know what mi

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questions

I had triplets born on sat. The smallest one had a few rough days and is now in the house doing well. He had white on his umbilical cord, I have never seen this before and wondered if this was why he had such a rough start. It took a day before he co

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Hair Loss

One of my neighbors has an Alpine that is losing clumps of hair and has bald spots from the neck down to mid back. She is acting fine as far as eating and sleeping, just the skin irritations. He has researched, she gets a good mineral supplement with

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Not A Perfect Birth

I made mistakes with a kidding yesterday and thought I'd post so that others may learn from them. This was the first kidding of the year, but the 6th kidding at our farm so I'm very new to it but it wasn't my first.

I have a doe that I purchased bred

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Mastitis

My doe has been nursing fine and letting me milk her in the morning and at night.  But lately she has been kicking more and tonight she would not even let me touch her.  Her udder still feels soft but she is acting like it is painful for me to touch

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