Hi, I live in Michigan and am starting a Nigerian Dwarf herd this year and i am wondering about getting my own buck. I do not want the hassle of loading up my girls and taking them somewhere to hopefully be bred, it would be so easy to just put them
Read more…So I have owned goat's mostly Boars but wanted something smaller not Pygmy goats.
I think these guys are just perfect I bought a doe that was already breed she had 5 kids all alive.
I didn't think she would have that many but I am looking for to many
Read more…Have to share this. We all know things could go array but just don't think it really will. Just read on another site, someone with standard goats, dosed her goat kids per her vet, with Mu-Se. She had 4, it killed everyone of them. I have vaguely hear
Read more…Our little one year old doe had a single doeling. The mama, is a skittish doe we got last year from a family where she had very little contact with people and she is extremely skittish and shy. Now that she is a mother, I was worried she wouldn't b
Read more…One of my does had triplets 4 days ago (yay!). Two, a doeling and buckling, are big and strong. The third, a doeling, is smaller, although very spunky. The two bigger ones dominate mama's udders. I have noticed that when the little one finally gets a
Read more…Rather then re-type this, I have copied it from my page at VanEdenGoats.com - I hope that does not offend anyone. Regardless of what you are told; if you have questions, call your vet!!! The very last sentence *is* absolute truth.
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Read more…Looking for benign reasons for blood in my Ginger's urine.
I took a sample to the vet but have not heard back. When I first noticed it, it was more bright red. I followed her around to get a sample which was more brown. This is Day 17 from kidding (lo
As I've shared on here before, I've had a heck of a time getting my doe Juniper pregnant. She's had two "successful" breedings and didn't take either time. In December I decided to just let her spend a week with the buck when she was due to be in hea
Read more…My doe, Willow, has a kidding date of April 13, 2016, so I'm starting to add more to my goat kit, so as to cover kidding needs. The only thing is, I have no idea what I should add. Someone mentioned that I'll want to have some milk replacer on hand.
Read more…I love articles that provide good information instead of biased hysteria on either side. This one gives really good "food for thought".
http://modernfarmer.com/2016/03/gmo/
Read more…Wondering what the earliest date people have had their goats kid? This will be my 1st kidding, senior doe due to kid 4/18. I just found out I need to go out of town 4/9-4/10. Is this cutting it too close? I would appreciate any input! Thanks!
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I am a teenager from Tucson, Arizona, and have been looking into getting goats. I have several questions before I can get goats, and one big problem: Mom hasn't agreed yet. Any tips on convincing her a couple of nigis would be the perfect add
Read more…I am scared to death to disbud my babies! I had 2 kids last spring (my first ones ever) and enlisted the help of a friend who raises Boer goats to help me disbud. My buck is polled. My friend didn't think he felt any points so we decided to wait. Aft
Read more…At first milking today, Ginger's left teat had a cut on it. I have no idea how she got it unless it was from blackberry vines that had been cut and put in their pen. She freshed on March 8th (babies delivered dead) and I started milking her late on
Read more…My Ginger (two years old this past March) is not showing any signs of labor rather than the babies "relocating" a few days ago. I asked her yesterday if she is even pregnant! Her weight is about the same as it has been for the past year, maybe a bi
Read more…Did anyone else catch this news story about a Nigerian Dwarf in Utah that gave birth to six kids? Not only that, but they're all alive. This doe and her owners have all my sympathies! :)
http://fox13now.com/2016/03/17/utah-goat-litter-ties-world-rec
Read more…...just look at the roof... Moral of the story: don't put the dog house (where the goat kids sleep), next to the goat house (where the moms sleep), next to the hay storage unit, next to the roof....because, having discovered one step of the ladder,
Read more…We just recently moved back to my husbands home town for him to farm the family farm. I am new to everything that comes with living out here but have so far been raising my chickens. Goats are my next venture so we are going to look at what I am hopi
Read more…I knew that when i got my goats that I would have to move them twice a year because of flooding. At that time i asked around about the flooding helping with parasites, ie washing the poop away. Well we have had the flood and the goat pens were under
Read more…This is meant to be an informative discussion for new goat owners. I am new and looked for this specific information on the web and couldn't find what I was looking for, so I plan to document with photos and milk records my FF's progression. I also d
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