My FF freshened yesterday with triplets. Her udder filled with milk today and she is HUGE and really full of milk-- way way more than the babies can consume (and no more colostrum). I put her on the stand and milked out a couple of cups to ease her,
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About 2 years ago a woman in the valley next to ours was arrested for hoarding. About 200 live animals were found on her place and about a hundred dead ones. We have done rescue work with injured, abandon and old horses for years and had
Read more…I have 1 beautiful doeling and 2 beautiful bucklings for sale they were born 4/5 and 4/7 I will attach pictures below. Their mothers have great udders. They are out of Mini Blessing blood lines. All can be registered with MDGA . The first picture is
Read more…Hi,my name is kari and i am a newbie goat herder. My husband of 25+ years and i live in upstate ny for now, though we are planning to head south soon ...all animals in tow,lol. we have dogs and birds and house bunnies,laying chickens amd now goats!I
Read more…I am curious what sort of breeding/kidding schedule various breeders prefer? It seems like a lot of people breed in fall/winter for spring kidding. That's what we did this year and it worked well but I'm curious to know why people prefer their chosen
Read more…I searched all over the web without success for a free downloadable excel sheet to keep up with my Gal's shots, de-wormings and hoof trims. I designed this form. My farm name is in the header section. Feel free to share and customize this form any
Read more…Has any one used the battery powered milk machine at Dansha Farms? What did you think about it? I have been trying to find a reasonable milking machine, that works but wont damage the udder or teats, any other suggestions?
http://www.danshafarms.com
Today my black buck, Frosty went down and he won't get up. He's was maybe a little slow yesterday but today he laid down and won't get up for anything. My husband saw him trying to walk once today when the buck peed and he sort of walked in a sitting
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I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, but when it's time to pick up my goat, how should i go about doing so?
I do have a horse trailer conveted for mini horses, but while that might be okay it's axle broke, so that's out.
Read more…I've been having on again off again ear shaking with my goats and so I just did a review of all our posts on this topic. I saw in Feb that Debra and Rachel were discussing scabs and itching on a doe and you pondered if it was mites from hay/straw.
I'
Read more…I am wanting to keep one of Peachy's bucklings for myself. I have to make a decision between two of them. Both are blue eyed, both buckskin, one has fancy white overlay the other has moonspots.
The fancy white overlay buck is a little bigger and a
Read more…My Doe recently gave birth to two adorable bucklings and I'm wondering what to do when they "come of age".
What are some things to look for in a quality buckling?
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My name is Holly, I have two goats, one girl and one boy. They are 9 and 7 months old. My boy is a wether, I got him and his brother and both recently had a bout with UC, his brother died, but I managed to get Blue to Cornell to help with the s
Read more…Hello, everyone! My name is Kelly. I have a small farm that began with four chickens which became thirty chickens, plus a few extras, add eleven ducks, a couple rabbits, and of course THREE GOATS! I purchased two doelings last June and named them Fio
Read more…I have a wonderful 2 year old first freshening doe that I has been milked 2x's daily since March. She is incredibly easy to milk with huge orifices so that the milk just gushes out.
Two weeks ago I found that I could not milk from the right side. Mil
Read more…After reading everyone else's postings and being so nervous - my doe went and snuck in her babies in the 40 minutes I was gone! Really I'm not complaining - I am not a good birthing spectator!
Anyway - she never changed her body shape, she ate food
Read more…I am adding an adult doe to my herd. I have LOTS of new babies on the ground so I feel I should quarantine her and do the 3 class dewormer protocol before letting her in with the babies.
She has passed the WADDL biosecurity screen (CAE, CL Johnes s
Read more…I use homeopathy as my first go-to health care system. For me, my dogs, my goats, my chickens, cats ...
I've moaned and groaned recently about one of my goats being a little dry, a little dandruff and also a tad greasy. I was concerned since she was
Read more…Okay, so I have two does that are about the same age. Fiona is larger and weighs more than Aurora. I let our Buck in with them back in late December and he was put back in his own section in mid march. Hopefully I will have kids in late may or early
Read more…One first Freshener- Gabby produced triplets but our Xena also a first freshener had a positive pregnancy test in December but no babies and ultrasound showed no fetus. My problem is she seems to be a hormonal mess. She is behaving like a buck alte
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