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Does In Heat

Today, two of my does were fighting a lot. These does normally leave each other alone. One of them was making weird moaning noises and her tail was wagging a lot. And she kept smelling the butt of the other doe. My guess is that she is in heat? The o

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Kidding

Is it possible for a breed doe to give birth before 5 months? It seems to me that we have 3 out of 4 does pregnant.  Two are not being milked anymore because they only give 1/2 cup of milk or less a day and the milk turned slightly yellow.  The one t

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Housing Bucks

In the spring, I plan on getting a buck for my girls. I have a few questions. We have a barn, and on the south side of it, the girls are housed and they have access to their yard out of the door. How far away does the buck have to be to 1) not be so

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Introductions...

Hello to every one!


We are in Ontario, Canada and have a 100acre farm which we farm organically. We run a CSA and use two Suffolk Punch draft horses to do the cultivating etc, we also raise Heritage Berkshire Pigs, and my husband is a newbee (apologi

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Introduction

Thank you for all of your kind welcome wishes. My husband, son and I have a small herd of ND goats, NW of Portland OR. I am a member of ANDDA, ADGA, AGS and NWODairy Goat Assoc. Our breeding program puts an emphasis on productive dairy animals, that

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