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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...

I'm getting a bottle baby in a few days. She'll be 3-4 days old, and was wondering how cold is too cold for babies? The low here will get around 32 degrees. She'll be out of the wind, have plenty of straw and a heat lamp if necessary. The straw she'll have 24/7, but I'm not sure at what temp I...

my almost 2 year old pygmy goat wether over a pretty short time has become lethargic and lost his appetite and this morning when i came out to feed them he had a short coughing fit and sneezed a few times. does that sound like a cold? i just hope it's not pneumonia. i noticed he was acting a...

As I'm sure many of you are dealing with today, we here are dealing with unusually extreme cold today. It's currently 17* out with a steady wind. My bucks have been lightly shivering pretty much all day. I covered their cattle panel door with a tarp to help block a little more wind. They...

Hey everyone, I'm new here! I have five nigerian goats, and it's quite literally -40 here in BC. They are not doing so good, and I'm worried. They have a shelter packed with hay, inside a barn, they get lots of grain twice a day, and unlimited hay and minerals. But I think their legs are...

My girl had 2 babies early Tuesday morning, one is doing great and the other is really struggling. She was nursing on and off but sometimes won’t so I’ve been trying to supplement by bottle feeding her (milk from her mom). Her sister will take 5-6 oz from the bottle easy but my weak girl...

I'm new here and this is my first time posting, so I hope I have this in the right section! I have six Nigerian dwarfs: three adults, three 9 month old kids. We had an unusually warm January (mid-50's F most days, with lows in the upper-20's), so they've all been blowing their winter coats for...

New to goats and I have two Pygmy brothers that are housed in a rather large doghouse, but currently don’t have other shelter in their paddock. It’s 25 F with a windchill of 18 F. It’s also snowing, a wet snow, and piling up. Both are visibly wet, but cashmere looks dry. One is shivering. Given...

At what point can newborns be ok without supplemental heat...when it’s in the 30s? My little ones are approaching a week old. I have a heat lamp available at night still. They don’t always sit under it. (They are always with mom). In the mornings, they come charging outside in the 40s without...

Good grief. No fun caring for livestock in sub zero (F) weather! I don't have a real barn, so the girls are getting lots of extra hay and multiple servings of hot water. So far, so good - even Ditza is doing ok with her bald spots. However, yesterday my daughter got some HOT water for...

I purchased a yearling ND doe from a lady on August 31. All her goats were penned together with her buck, so she said she was possibly bred, but obviously had no idea when she would be due. Turns out she is pregnant, she started developing an udder around November 18. Anyway, I'm in northern...

Is it at all common for goats to have both a clear slight wetness to their nostrils and occasionally lick it? Or is that more of a sign of having a cold? Long story short, I'm new to goats and kind of spazzing haha

I have 2 pygmy mix goats due to have babies any day. Yesterday because it was going to be cold and rainy I hung a heat lamp in their shed. I didn't even turn it on, but both goats were too scared to go back in their shed. So I took it out and they were still to scared to go in their shed...

This is the first winter with my does and we had snow today. They have been out most of the day and their fur is wet. I was concerned about them as the temperature begins to fall. Just went and checked on the and they are outside ( Temp. 31) and they have ice on their fur. I got them in their...

I have a goat that is moving slow and just standing and staring like a zombie. She is friendly and always comes to me but late yesterday she stopped. Today she is doing the same but has stayed in Barn most of the day. Her poop was clumped yesterday and I just checked her she looks to be starting...

Hello all! I'm new here, so go easy on me.(; Three or so days ago, we went to auction and purchased two one-week-old Nubian bucklings. I've never had goats before (despite always wanting them), but my stepdad has a ton of experience with them and so we're going off of what we've been told, what...

We're about to have a pretty bad cold spell...my six month old Pygmies have beautiful winter coats, but have yet to experience any cold below the thirties. We're supposed to get close to the single digits, and I live with pretty severe and cold east winds (35-40mph winds) brings the already cold...

My doe is due to kid on April 25. She had a respiratory infection when she came back from the breeder. I was able to knock it out with Bova Sera. She then came down with a mild case of pinkeye. I got rid of that by Cleaning around her eyes with mouth wash and topical drops of antibiotic into her...

Hi all! Well I'm new to this Goat Forum, but not new to goats. We raised them as a kid and finally I have my own! I'm so happy about all this, but of course it doesn't come without challenges. Brought Biscuit home on the 15th and already dealing with stuff. First, runny nose then some bloat...

Poor goaties! We have a split barn door and the top didn't get latched securely last night. (My daughters assure me it won't happen again. They were so contrite that I didn't even need to lecture them!) The door opens directly into our one stall. The goats were snow-covered as was all their...