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We had 2 baby goats born 5 days ago. They are 3/4 boer and 1/4 Nigerian dwarf. They stood and started rooting pretty quickly, and both were seen to get a drink from the udder. But after that first drink we only saw them rooting around on her chest and they couldn't seem to find the udder. We...

This year has been a terrible winter for our little homestead! We still have 3 feet of snow and it will be in the negatives tonight. One of our does kidded early this morning with twins and, she is up in our barn but it is as cold in the barn as it is outside, although they are out of the wind...

Hello! I'm making this thread so we can all brain storm names for our animals together! So post you best names and for those of you who can't think of names like me, take your favorite names!

How many goats can you bottle feed at one time?...

I have two 16 day old bottle babies. I found diarrhea in their crate this morning. I have been feeding 6oz 4x a day. I think I fed too much, they are 6lbs each. I just gave them both 1/2 a cup of electrolytes. They diarrhea was really just soft poop but still not firm pellets. Please help. I...

Hi everyone. New goat mum here!!! My little girl has these red patches on her ears and nowhere else. Is this normal? She's only 6 weeks old so I'm wondering is this like a shedding process that kids do? Also looks like she has some black freckels but again I'm not sure if this is normal. Help!

I have a goat that is three months old. She was one of three triplets. She has been a little smaller and weaker from birth. She, at times start panting, gets weak and lay down. It seemed like her muscles would just give out even if she had already laid down. It lasts about two minutes or...

Sadly, we had another goat kick the bucket while giving birth last night. She was a bit older, and we did plan on retiring her after this last season. But, after giving birth to these healthy twins (though one is about 2/3 the size of his sister), she went into labor AGAIN about 12 hours later...

Hi, I’m new here and have a huge problem. So my 1.5 Month old baby goat is doing terribly, she didn’t receive any colostrum from when she was born because she was a bit premature and her mother barely had any milk. I’ve been bottle feeding her ever since. At first she was fine then she got a...

Hey, I was wondering if it was safe and effective to use Cydectin (sheep oral drench) for 9 week old kids? I have the safeguard liquid too if that would be a better option. Let me know your opinions.

Okay forgive me if this is long but I want to be detailed so I can best manage my situation. I have a backyard mini farm with a fenced in acre. 2 Nigerian dwarf does that are 2 years. 4 ducks. 3 chickens. 5 barn cats. We just brought home a new 4 week old buckling from a farm 2 hours away. I...

My doe would be expecting between aug 6-22nd. The 6th marked 3 weeks after kidding and the 22nd would be for the last day I had a buck. Please no bad comments about her being with a buck, I know now that a buck shouldnt be kept like that with does. Last image is her post kidding back in...

So i weighed the triplets today and the weights are. They are nigerian/mini alpine/mini nubian crosses Forrest Gump- 19.6 pounds Lt.Dan-17.4 pounds and the one Im worried about: Jenny- 13.4 pounds She is the only girl and i am afraid the boys are pushing her away. I wish i could give a...

So....I need to post a doe kid up for sale..I put her on craigslist: https://raleigh.craigslist.org/grd/d/fuquay-varina-alpine-doe-kid-adga/6876575917.html where else can I put her? I live in Eastern NC. thanks so much

Our nubian had twins 4 days ago and her milk had not come in. We brought the babies home as one was very near death and the other not far behind. After hours of work they did warm up and both took to a bottle very well. The first 2 days they looked to completely rebound. Both playing, eating...

I' new to goats, we have 4 now. 2 girls and 1 boy we bought from a farm. Both girls got pregnant and one had a heathy baby boy 2 weeks ago who is doing great. The other we found last Night had lost twins, they were small and looked underdeveloped. Any ideas on what it could be that caused it...

Hello everyone, I just noticed that one of my kids has lost quite a bit of hair on the bridge of her nose. She is only 22 days old and her mom received copper and BoSe at breeding and a month before kidding and was given Vit a, Vit e, and zinc at weekly intervals (just one human pill) and then...

I have a baby boer born Thursday evening. Things seemed to be okay even though she was a little weak. Yesterday I noticed she was cold and a little limp, so I brought her inside, got her warmed up and gave her a bottle. Once she was back on her feet and moving around, I put her back with her...

I have a 10 or 11 day old baby goat that I'm having to bottlefeed because the doe rejected it. Everything was going fine until yesterday evening when I noticed that my little girl kept stretching out her back legs constantly and seemed just a little bit wobbly on them. When it came time for her...

I have a 13 week old male pygmy who just died from bloat. I have been weaning him and just feeding once a day, and when I got home from work, and fed him a cup of milk from his bottle, he seemed happy, and about 5 min later started expanding and making noises, and then he kept expanding. I...