Does anyone here think it's possible for a doe to give more to her favorite milker?
My Will and I share duties; I almost always milk in the mornings, Will in the evenings. The evening haul is always more than the morning, unless I substitute for Will
Read more…Hello everyone! This is the first time that i have posted to the group and would like to thank everyone in advance who might be able to give me some information. I have a a female goat who will be kidding in about a month. I also have her brother who
Read more…Posting for a friend. Her goat is losing her hair in huge clumps. She is eating, happy goat but has lost about 30% of her coat. They called a vet and they have wormed her and are using an anti fungal on her skin does anyone have any idea what it coul
Read more…I had posted an ad locally looking for does. ( Long story but mine were poisoned by a neighbor last year. Lost 8 in 1 day) The bucks survived, the does did not.
So I received a response from someone saying if I breed polled to polled I will end up.wi
Read more…Does anyone have a source of Selenium/Vit E powder to order from? I am all out, and Hoeggers Farm Yard are not answering their phones so I am hesitant to place an order online. I don't see anyone else carrying it for goats online. All I see in Sel
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I am incredibly thankful for this website/ forum since yall have nigerian dwarf goats as well. I have had my goats coming up on three years and am by no mean a professional goat person. For some reason one of them is shedding like crazy. She
Read more…My doe just came into heat again and I moved her in with my buck. She is a first freshener but she is very flirty and seems very clear on what should be happening though she sometimes gets rough with him when he isn’t attentive it seems. That said, h
Read more…I have a 2 year old ff who just gave birth to triplets. Unfortunately she is not being very kind to them, head buts them whenever they try to go near her, and not gently. I have tried to hold her to allow them to nurse but she is having none of it. I
Read more…Hi! Heres a little about myself and my adventure! I am 28 years old, married to Mr Right for 9 years and we have 3 littles. 2 boys ages 5 and 3 and 1 girl 19 months old! All my growing up years I lived around cows, horses, chickens, dogs, and cats
Read more…Hi All
Excited to have found this group :-)
& looking forward to the introductory series of emails!
Brilliant idea
We moved to a farm a year ago & Nigerian Dairy goats were on my list to achieve self suffieciency
Not so easy to come by in Sout Afric
Read more…hello, we are a family of four, living in Seattle on our tiny urban farm of half an acre. We welcomed our two does last July , mama Peaches (almost 3 years old) and daughter Loosa (almost 2 years old). We would like to breed them both this winter bu
Read more…Two months ago, I castrated an 11 month old with a burdizzo (emasculator from Jeffers), and only one side took. This definitely could have been operator error, it was my first time using the tool, but I think the burdizzo was the culprit. I didn't
Read more…I want to cut out an area in the barn so the goats can out out to a fenced in chain link pen area if they need to (they free range during the day though). Does anyone have any suggestion on the size of the cut out so full grown nigerians can exit.
Read more…Thank you for adding me to the Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goat forum. We have a small mini farm in NW Missouri near Kansas city. We love our little Nigerians and we love our goat milk!!! We have learned so much in the last few years about these wonderfu
Read more…Hello, I am Joanna and I have 4 NDG’s. I am new to goats and have only had them since September ‘17. I need advise about a doe with a rectal prolapse. The doe was pregnant and developed the prolapse about a week before freshening. I took her to the V
Read more…Hi, I have some nigerian dwarf goats I got in the spring of last year. They did terrific on pasture and hay supplement during the summer. This winter I started to notice that they were getting little spots where hair wasn't growing. I have been givin
Read more…One doe isolates herself, she does not eat well like others and she gets thinner with time. Suggestions on how to help her will be mostly appreciated.
Read more…How much of a size discrepancy between buck and Doe is considered too much to breed? For example if I have a 23in buck around 40lbs and a 14 in doe around 25 lbs should I even consider the breeding?
Read more…Okay, folks, I have a buckling that was to be wethered Thursday when other goat work was done. However, his testicles are undescended. My goat person said he could be sold to be with wethers or bucks but should not be with does. She said he will li
Read more…we would like to breed our two does SOON and have missed their heats the last few months from being overwhelmed with other life events.
We don’t seem to have too many options for bucks in the Puget Sound area and our girls are not used to being put
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