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  1. Beginners Goat Raising
    We have a female, 2-3 week old kid who limps on both front hooves. It looks like she has one pad/sole instead of two. Has anyone seen this before? I can’t find anything online about it. I’m not what this could mean for her as she gets bigger.
  2. Health & Wellness
    Hello all! First time posting, so bare with me! I am semi new to goats, I have 2 adult male goats that were very well trained with their previous owners and have had them since this summer and have been easy peasy to take care of. I decided to take a leap and get a baby! He is just over 6 weeks...
  3. Goat Management
    I am planning on banding a buckling but I don’t have access to banamine. Can I give kid aspirin instead?
  4. Health & Wellness
    Any help is appreciated. The herd I work with has been disbudding successfully with no issues for 14 years. For the first time ever, this season alone, we have had 3 kids develop infections at the site of their disbudding 3 months AFTER they were disbudded. With the first two, the hair had...
  5. Health & Wellness
    Hello all, I have this one doeling who seems small to me. She is three months and is still on mom. She was a triplet but sadly the other two passed away. She just got dewormed recently. She weighs 12 lbs. is that a normal weight for her size or should I be bottle feeding her or feeding her...
  6. Health & Wellness
    Hi all. When my husband got home recently, he heard a small bleat and went out to look at the goat pasture to find one of my goats hung up in a hay feeder upside down hanging by her leg. He got her down and he said she immediately walked a little. We went back out about 30 minutes later and she...
  7. Beginners Goat Raising
    I have two bucklings that will be up for sale in April. I’m not sure how to price them. One is nubain/alpine and the other is 25%nubain, 25% nigerian, and 50% alpine. The nubain/alpine was born at 7.23lbs and at two weeks he is 15.63lbs. The other was born at 5.61lbs and is now 11.0 lbs. They...
  8. Pack and Working Goats
    My little alpine buckling got ahold of my does before my actual breeding buck could. I’ve posted him before. Well the two kids were born as singles and massive. The first one came out 5.61lbs. His mom is a nigerian/nubian and was NOT supposed to be bred to the alpine but the birth went good. The...
  9. Goat Management
    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...
  10. Health & Wellness
    If I use the 2% chlorhexidine only will it cure the staph ? Will it hurt my goat if she lick’s it ? How long will it take to heal? I have never had to deal with staph before so I am worrying about my kid .Thank you all.
  11. Goat Management
    We got a Jenny couple months back and she gets along really well with our herd enough to where we let her graze with them. The only issue came when one of our nanny's had a kid. They hit it off well but now instead of staying with the herd, her and the kid usually end up clear across the other...
  12. Beginners Goat Raising
    The kid I bought has tight shoulders but when she bends her head down her shoulders pop but not audibly, Is this normal will she be ok?
  13. Health & Wellness
    How much should a 2month old singleton Nubian doeling kid weigh ? What grower would be best to help put weight on a kid.Thank you all
  14. Health & Wellness
    EMERGENCY UPDATE: Original post 11/4: My almost 4 week old baby goat started having diarrhea last night. She took 3 5oz bottles of electrolytes today and is now refusing a bottle and standing hunched and keeps laying down. I took a fecal sample to the vet and they will have results in the...
  15. Health & Wellness
    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...
  16. Health & Wellness
    Hello! One of my dwarf nigerians (4mo. old) has had scours for about 9 hours now, it onset pretty quickly. She was going to town on this bald cypress we have on the property, then a few hours later, pudding, now scours. They have not been treated for Coccidiosis (definitely going to now). She...
  17. New Member Introductions
    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!
  18. Health & Wellness
    Hello, We just had our first Boer kid born about an hour ago. I want to make sure we give it all the correct meds/supplements to promote health and wellness. Can someone give me a list of essentials with dosage? Thank you!
  19. Health & Wellness
    Is this copper
  20. Health & Wellness
    Me sweet baby boy (born 2.28) has an umbilical infection that he has surgically removed on 3.31. Since then he has had a persistent fever (treated with banamine) and drainage (treated with quartermaster) from the incision site. Things took a turn for the worst yesterday when he has a 106.5 fever...
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