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  1. Goat Management
    Hey all! So I posted on here a long while ago about a Nigerian dwarf buckling that we had purchased at an auction. He's around 5 months old now and he hasn't grown an inch since we got him. He's just so, so small. He's less then 2 feet off the ground. Overall he is very healthy, and very...
  2. Goat Management
    He is four months old, and a little small. Do you think he can breed my does this fall? Sure hope so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was soooo hard to find a buckling this year!
  3. Mini Mania
    Hi all, I have a 6-month-old Nigerian Dwarf buckling who is sick. He has runny poo and doesn't look right. He still fights the other goats, though, and is active. I gave him copper on October 5, and I gave him dewormer on September 14. He has free choice loose minerals (picture below of mineral...
  4. Health & Wellness
    Hey all! So the little buck we got from the auction was ear tagged at the auction with a very obnoxious orange solid metal ear tag that we have not been able to remove. It is getting infected and we have been cleaning around the hole but it needs to go. Can anyone recommend a way to cut it off...
  5. Goat Management
    I am planning on banding a buckling but I don’t have access to banamine. Can I give kid aspirin instead?
  6. Goat Management
    Hey I'm looking at a buckling and doeling on craiglist. They don't have a common sire, but the mother of the buckling is the grandma of the doeling is that a problem for breeding them together?
  7. Health & Wellness
    My buckling Mitch, just weaned, got sick (not badly) a little while ago. But I was paying a lot of attention to him and I noticed, he is literally SKIN and BONE.. soo thin.. help! I feel so bad, how could I not have noticed it.. My poor baby 🥺 What should I do? He has free choice hay and grass...
  8. Goat Conformation
    Hello everyone! My newest purchase (Osiris, also known as Ozzy) has made it home, and I am so excited to see him develop. I would absolutely love everyone’s opinion on him so far, as I’m still training my eye. Comparing him to the buckling born on my farm I can definitely see some body type...
  9. Bucks
    Hello, I am wanting to purchase a four or five month old buckling to have for future breeding and not sure what the best situation for him to be kept. Right now I have one buck and two wethers that are full sized being kept in one location and two pregnant does about to kid this month in a...
  10. Health & Wellness
    I have a 12 week old buckling who seems to have ZERO instincts. Like he doesn’t stay with the herd at all. Isn’t scared of new things or animals. Just seems oblivious to what’s going on around him. I thought maybe he was blind but that’s not the case. I will say he was raised inside for 2-3...
  11. Health & Wellness
    Help!! I spotted this dandruff-like stuff on my bucklings legs, from just below his knees to his ankles. None on the rest of his body. It smells like pee. He is only 4wks, surely not peeing on himself yet??He has lice… I am getting rid of them. He recently moved outside. He is on whole goats...
  12. Goat Frenzy
    As you may know from my other thread, I am getting a Nubian bottle baby buckling on the 5th of April. I just learned I may have to go away on the 7th 🫤 and so someone else would be filling in for me. But I really wanted him to bond with me, and if I have to go away will he still bond with me...
  13. Bucks
    I am possibly buying a bottle baby Nubian buckling!! What questions should I be asking the seller? I am more nervous about this as it’s the first time I am buying a really young goat! He is approx 2 weeks old. Looks healthy! He also has a Nice shiny coat. Thank you!!
  14. Bucks
    Well… I just spotted a REALLY nice Nubian buckling for sale. He’s 2 weeks old, a bottle baby. Only problem is… I don’t have a buck pen. So I was wondering if it would be ok for him to live with the does for a while? Until we build a buck pen, and get him a buddy. Two of three girls are about to...
  15. Goat Frenzy
    I just wanted to share a picture of my new buckling and his wether buddy. They left California bound for the eastern US this afternoon. Hopefully better pictures to come! They look pretty freaked out at the moment. I hope they are able to relax a bit. Wether on the left, buckling on the...
  16. Beginners Goat Raising
    I’ve been trying to get my bottle baby used to being outside. He stays out most of the day but comes in when it rains, too cold, and at night. The other 5 goats, 2 does, their two bucklings and my wether won’t let him in the barn, yet. They are starting to get along tho. Anyways, when I try to...
  17. Goat Frenzy
    So, I couldn’t help myself and I brought another buck home 😆 Captain is a Nubian/boer mix. He’s almost 8 months old, so has plenty of growing left to do. I’m going to see about giving him one of my open girls tho so I can see his kids before having to wait another year.
  18. New Buckling!

    Dottie gave birth to her first baby today, a beautiful buckling named Rolo. He is the result of crossing Dottie (Myotonic) with a Nigerian Dwarf buck.
  19. Goat Management
    If things go well I plan to start breeding the 1st of Dec. 13-15 Nigerian dwarf does in all, for may kidding. I will be breeding with 2 bucks one is a 3 year old and the other is my junior buckling. He was born April 9, so he will be 8 months when I breed. He's not very bucky, just starting to...
  20. Health & Wellness
    Hi y'all! I would like completely honest opinions on these two castration methods...all the pros and cons. I heard that banding can lead to tetanus, but it is sure to work, but I also heard that the burdizzo was less painful, but isn't guaranteed to work the first time. What are y'all's...
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