Hello! My name is Amber and I am very excited and (im)patiently awaiting the new year so I can get my goats! I'm new to goats, but have raised sheep, chickens and horses. I've always just had them as pets though so this is my first attempt at 'farmi
Read more…My doe Capri-Dance Mystery has kidded with twins out of my buck Poppy Patch Rio the Rebel. A tri-colored doe kid (3.25lbs) and a black & white buck kid (3.5lbs) This is Mystery's second freshening, and her first since her arrival here. I am so lo
Read more…As I posted in my blog recently, the goats are grazing near a green soybean field. Well, recently the goats have been getting closer and closer to the soybean field. I saw them over by the field today, but can't be sure if they ate any.
My question
Read more…We are going on a four day trip next week (first in many, many years!), and it will really be only the second time I'll be leaving the goats in the hands of someone else. The people caring for the goats have really no experince with goats - mostly ho
Read more…Hi, I just joined. I have a small herd of Nigerians currently in new Mexico. We will be moving to Missouri later this year I know big change. Anyway I am a member of the local goat club here. We put on local shows and such. Can anyone tell me if ther
Read more…I thought it would be fun to discuss various odd goat behaviors...When I first brought home one of my young goats she would stiffen her front legs, ponce forward and bark, cough at the sight of my dog. He is the sweetest dog, but does look threateni
Read more…I promised to share my experiences with my first kidding, so I decided to start a mini-blog beginning with the first signs of labor.
Trauma, aka Queenie, is due anywhere from September 4th to the 13th since the previous owner “pen bred” her. This
Read more…I am just curious. How much milk would you feed a bottle baby? And at what intervals? I am just curious after watching a video on this site about premies.
Thanks
Melissa
Read more…Hello ALL! I am writing because I won the wonderful goat milk soap from Deborah Neimann-Boehle and it recently arrived in the mail and it is just terrific!!! it smells wonderful! she is truly an artisan. If anyone is looking to buy soap she has a ter
Read more…I picked up our first goat last night.:o) She isn't registered,and I actually don't even know for sure if she's a nigerian dwarf but she's looked enough like one to give her a shot for 20 dollars...lol.
I fell in love with these little goats about six
Hi again from Minnesota. Does anybody out there have experience with goats and cherry tree leaves. I know the wilted leaves are listed as poisonous to goats. I still don't have any yet but I'm making the yard for them on my small piece of property. W
Read more…I just posted a pictorial of Sherri's birth on the Antiquity Oaks Facebook page, and someone said that it would have been nice to see pictures like that before her first goat birth, because she thought that bag of red-tinged fluid meant something was
Read more…At the end of April, we brought a buck in who spent about a week and a half with my girls. The older doe didn't seem to come back into heat and gained weight over the summer, so we thought she was pregnant. However, this is our first time breeding s
Read more…My goats will be arriving in about a week and I'm currently building three pastures out of cattle panels. The space I'm putting the pastures is all dirt so my question is what would be the best mix of grass to plant?
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Hello! My name is Rachel, and I'm a new goat addict! lol We inherited a goat because my husband works for the Sheriff's Dept. and he got a call about a goat on the loose. Long story short: Because he knew I was THINKING about goats, he decided to bri
Read more…We have these two Rhode Island Red bantem hens who decided they wanted to hatch some eggs. We didn't realyl think anything was going to happen, but we let them stay out in the nest they made. Well, we went out to the barn tonight to find one egg brok
Read more…We are in the process of getting our goat shelter and pen set up. When that is complete then we will bring home a 2 year old registered ND female who already pregnant due in Feb and a younger doe 9 mo that is 3/4 ND. We are breeding her with a fully
Read more…One of my goats (only 2 months old) got half of a dried, but yellow leaf. I called the vet. He said that the goat should not vomit, and if it does then I will need to get medication. All of the websites I read say the goat should vomit to get rid
Read more…My milker was down on her milk today. The weather has gone from very hot to fall weather. She hang on the buck fence as soon as she got into the outside fence...tail up. standing. When I put her in I watched him penetrate and hunch and minutes lat
Read more…I am new to the whole farm business. It is something I have wanted to do for as long as I can remember. I spent the last three years in Iraq, as a contractor, paid off all my bills and put a good downpayment on a 10.44 acre farm in West Central India
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