My buckling was born as one of a set of triplets to one of my daughters does. His two siblings were of normal birth size but my little guy was a tiny one. We were shocked he survived but his mama wasn't interested and he was far too small to feed fro
A couple of months ago, we had a Facebook post that elicited a lot of very passionate responses and also uncovered a lot of myths and misinformation about worms in goats.
Hello! I have a first fresher that I have been milking for about a month now and she has been consistently giving me one to one and a half pounds of milk per milking. I'm milking her twice a day at 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. this morning when I milked h
Rotational grazing is the key to parasite control. After all, if you limit infection of your goats, you limit the potential for them to become severely parasitized. But there is
Something I have been thinking about. With DNG's should the male always be kept seperate from the females even when pregnant? If so can you just keep one male or will this lead to problems? Finally is there a book that deals with DNG's? I will need t
New restrictions on over-the-counter antibiotics used in livestock will start in June 2023. Until now, anyone could walk into a farm store and buy penicillins, sulfa drugs, and other antibiotics
Raising baby goats, also known as kids, can be rewarding, fun, and exciting for both beginners and experienced goat keepers. Baby goats are known for their curious, playful nature, making them a pop
Apologies if I get this wrong as I am not good on these laptop things!
I am in the process of building a living area for our future goats and was wondering what the best flooring would be. I am considering using concrete or just good old soil. They sh
I was convinced of the importance of necropsies after owning goats for only five years when a seemingly healthy doe suddenly started screaming and was dead an hour later. Without the necropsy, we never w
All these years I thought we were just lucky to have never had a case of hoof rot in our goats, but in today’s episode, I learned that luck has nothing to do with it.
I have a 5 year old pregnant doe (Ella) due in two weeks and two pregnant yearlings that are all loosing hair by the handful and Ella has giant flakes of skin on her udder. All have excessive dandruf and seem itchy. It looks like zinc deficiency and
Although it is a fairly common practice for goat owners to treat anemic animals with Red Cell after deworming, there had not been any research on whether it was helpful — until now.
I am new on here. I reside in Bulgaria and am looking at adding goats to our current selection of small animals/birds and the Nigerian dwarf is one we are considering though they are not easy to find here. Knowing nothing about goats I here to fin
Although some animals are not as susceptible to tetanus, such as dogs and cats, goats can get tetanus. Like humans, which have been protected by the vaccine since the first world war, goats can also
Good morning ya'll - I have a first freshener doe, 5 weeks post partum who is nursing three babies. I have been milking mom since kids were 3 weeks old. In the last two days, I noticed one or two "milk clots" coming out when I milked. The teat woul
Not only is a goat placenta very different from a human or horse placenta but how it functions is also different, as well as how it should be managed after birth.
Although I had heard of two people co-owning a goat before, I had never heard of four until I met today's guests when we were recording last week's episode on Pygmy goats.
