So I have started feeding my girls lespedeza as a preventative measure, and it's just another part of their daily ration currently. I was wondering if there is a minimum amount they have to ingest to be beneficial? Can I feed it with their alfalfa/
Read more…We would love to travel and take our goats with us in a toyhauler, so that we can always have fresh goat milk wherever we are. Is this breed travel-hardy?
Read more…I am so excited I just had to share my success with you all because this forum has played an enormous part of my goat-keeping experience.
My Doe Joy freshened May 20th with two bucklings. Unfortunately one of the babies died due to a disbudding misha
Read more…1. My doe was 32 lb before breeding and has gained 16 lb. We don't know the exact date of breeding but think she is about to go. Is there any rule of thumb on how much a doe will gain? Of course I know this will have something to do with how many
Read more…Remember Ginger who didn't have kids the first part of August this past year? She is pregnant after going to the "fat farm" November 25th to February 2nd. She was with the buck the entire time she was there. She did lose weight and appears to be p
Read more…What are the best scissors for trimming the goats feet? I've left them far to long and they have overgrown. The garden snips don't work.
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I'm probably going to call my vet, and do a fecal test, but in the meantime I thought I'd see if anyone here has experienced this. My four-year-old buck has had clumpy poop on and off for the past few days. He is on dry lot and fed hay, so worms
Read more…The land my family and I have purchased, 38 acres, is all forested. It is made up primarily of hardwoods (black walnuts, oaks, others unidentified) that have been growing for about 100 years since the land was last farmed. As I dream and read about h
Read more…Please, any of you who pray, pray for my sister in law and family over the next few days. She is getting a scan within the next couple of hours to see what has happened with the cancer over the last 6 months. Tomorrow morning they will meet with the
Read more…My bottle baby doeling is getting bigger, which is great, but some of her cute baby behaviors are now becoming annoying. I've stopped for the past couple of weeks allowing her to head butt me (is that what she is doing? At first I thought she was jus
Read more…We have a yearling buck for sale, with or without papers. He sired great kids born this spring and is a gentle and exceptionally friendly fellow who even gives kisses. We are in SW Wisconsin. Please see www.couleemeadowfarm.com/.
Read more…Are Nigerian Dwarf's ok to live in the same pen as my chicken's and duck?
Read more…What kind of percentage are we talking about when you pen your goats with chickens and a duck together?
Read more…We have a grey fox that seems to have made it's home very nearby to us. The grey fox is very rare in these parts, old timers say it's been years since they have seen one. He is quite bold and not bothered much by us humans. Our neighbor opened the
Read more…I have two pregnant does. One is due to kid in about 10 days and the other in about three weeks. I am seeing signs of worms in one of them (clumpy poop, off her feed, etc.) I knew this was probably going to be an issue as we have had to keep them
Read more…I've been lucky to be able to have my own bucks for breeding. While it comes with some nuisance factors, I do enjoy the bucklings. I tend to run my bucklings with the whole herd until they are 16 weeks supervised. Meaning I don't leave them alone wit
Read more…I just got results back from a water test.
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience housing bucks with rams. I'm hesitant, as I wouldn't want the rams to 'ram' and injure the buck. Just wondering if anyone has had any success or experience with this.
Read more…I think my doe is trying to kill me.
I am absolutely positive of how far along she is (152 days today) because she was only with the buck one day. She has had an udder forming for the last 3 weeks, until today her ligaments were extremely tight. Thi
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