Our doe is due March 1 and we are taking reservations now! She comes from a great pedigree and a history of triplets! Please contact me asap at lcannella@hotmail.com We are in the process of registering our doe. Here is her pedigree
Sire: Rosash
Read more…I am getting two bucklings from Debra and am very excited. It will be the foundation of my herd moving forward! Already have the name of the first doe I keep using these boys! Because I like my bucklimgs bigger and older for breeding- I was grateful
Read more…I was wondering if anyone uses buck aprons on Nigerians? I read either on this list or another Nigerian list that in Africa, during times of drought, herdsmen are required to put aprons on their bucks so no breeding can occur. The does are the liveli
Read more…I'm hoping they are fine, but sometimes when I look at his eyes I think they look kind of off. Like, they're almost bulging out. He sees fine & everything. Maybe he has just more of a noticable membrane then my others? I attached pictures, please she
Read more…My first freshener was bred in November but showed strong heat signs in December so was bred again and stood for the breeding. She is now two months away from kidding and is enormous! What are the chances the first breeding took but she still cycled
Read more…To make a long story short (which I am not particularly good at...haha) I have a doe who is now six years old and has not freshened yet.
There are a few reasons for this:
At 7:am I noticed that the doe had a thin string hanging. Now at 10:20 am she looks lije this. Not eating and in her house. Panting, some times standing sometimes laying down. Nothing is presenting , and an occasional contractions not close together.
Read more…we picked up our little 6 week old nigi/Nubian named sunny and I noticed the bottom of her paws are cracked? is that normal? my daughter bought some mane and tale brand for hooves from tsc. (kinda feel stupid don't know if it's for goats or humans
Read more…Just a quickie - when you start to separate a kid overnight from the doe, do you let the kid drink milk first from the mother in the morning or do you milk first and let the kid drink after?
Thanks - again!
Katharine
Read more…We have a 3 yr old myotonic doe we just bought a week ago. Two days later we put a buck in the pen and she let him mount her atleast 4 times in the first 30 mins. Now 8 days later she has a discharge.has her tail up and back arched. Chewing at her bu
Read more…I believe there is good amounts of zinc in both sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. Do you all just feed sunflower seeds because a) cheaper, b) easier to find or c) has MORE zinc than pumpkin seeds.
I've been looking for a chart - I think someone on
Read more…My little buck is starting to run into my neighbours - already, at just 1 month! So I'm going to have to think about fencing - goats are tethered here (Nigeria) and I can't bear to tie him up......
I'll look and see what is available here to make a
Read more…Hi all,
I could really use some help. I purchased a pregnant doe and a doeling from a 4-her who went to college. She had put this doe with a buck before she realized that she couldn't take them to college, and took her out. When I agreed to purchase
Read more…I've been reading a few posts on Facebook groups recently about selenium deficiency, and it's bringing up some questions. I'm thinking I may need to do selenium a little differently than I have been, but I want to see what others think.
Since probabl
Read more…My doe was confirmed pregnant via Biotracking (yay!) and she will be 150 days on May 15th. This will be my first kidding (her 3rd) and I'm trying to get everything in order now so that when she kids I'll be ready. Luckily I have recently met 2 or 3
Read more…Jenny Pentland is Roseanne Barr's daughter. She lives in Hawaii and raises ND goats. I follow her on Twitter and Instagram and she posts a lot of pictures/vines of her goats. She's just finishing up her kidding season right now so there's tons of ado
Read more…Hi all,
This was my first winter kidding 2 weeks ago and I was super nervous about freezing kids so I built a warming hut for them. I found a great blog that had very specific instructions and I modified it a bit using what I had.
I had a 30 gallon
Hi there, my goat is in heat, but the discharge is yellow - I was expecting it to be creamy/whiteish. She seems otherwise healthy - although she did miscarry a premie late last year - this is her second heat since then, which had a whitish discharg
These are on one of the facebook groups. They are so cute and well traveled - just had to share!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204706596118608&set=pcb.928671390491075&type=1&theater
No sitting at home for these goats!
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