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  1. Goat Frenzy
    It has been a while since I posted, but I just figured I would share an update since I am going to be absolutely SWAMPED in the next 30days with our biggest kidding season arriving and then tons of stuff going on. (sneak peek at the end of post). I have my website mostly updated with free...
  2. Goat Frenzy
    I don't know much about goat genetics so I was wondering if there was a way to know what my goat's kids will look like. The mother of the doe is white and the father of the doe is brown and black. The doe is black with white spots. The buck's mother is white with a little bit of brown and the...
  3. Goat Management
    Air shipping a new kid. I have never air ship any animal of any kind, so I'm kinda scared to have to deal with it, but either he's set to come in a couple of days. What should I give him after he gets here to deal with stress? He will be around 4 weeks and is a bottle baby. B complex...
  4. Kidding Koral
    How do I keep them hydrated in humidity & temps in the 80s? two the kids show signs of dehydration & diarrhea. I’m not thinking it’s the milk since, it’s from the the mother milk. Sometimes they get formula when the mother’s don’t produce enough milk. But when it was colder temps they handled...
  5. Goat Frenzy
    Hi everyone I'm looking to buy a tattoo gun so I can tattoo and register my baby goats. I need one with all letters and numbers. Which brand do you all like? Thanks!
  6. Kidding Koral
    Lots of new babies on the homestead!!
  7. Health & Wellness
    Hello, I’m pretty new to goats. I have one as a pet and she is currently pregnant, due any time now. I moved my horses to a new boarding facility and because she’s so heavily pregnant I opted to leave Millie at the former facility so it wouldn’t stress her out. My question is, how soon can I...
  8. Waiting Room
    I bred a Pygmy Buck to a Nubian/Alpine cross doe. I don’t know how far along Acorn my doe is. A friend gave me Bozo the Pygmy Buck because she didn’t like how his tail stands up[emoji23] and he wasn’t very friendly but it’s weird he’s super friendly here. He gently head butts you literally only...
  9. Health & Wellness
    Hi everyone. One of our kids is almost 8 weeks old and her umbilical cord hasn't fallen off yet. It's dry and she doesn't seem to have any swelling at the site but just hasn't fallen off yet. Our others have never had issues and have lost their cords after no later than a month (and we haven't...
  10. Beginners Goat Raising
    I have a Nigerian buckling born a month ago at 5.5 lbs who is now 17 lbs! He's a solo kid / mom's first freshening. I started him on hay and small amounts of pellet grower feed at 2 weeks to get his rumen going. Mom is now starting to reject feeding, and I don't have another milking doe. I'm not...
  11. Health & Wellness
    Have you ever had trouble with nearly all the kids from a specific buck either being born premature, or dying unexpectedly? I bought and used a buck last fall (Boer, fullblood) to breed my 8 does, then I sold him to someone else who also used him for her does (she had more does than me, but not...
  12. Health & Wellness
    I need some advice… So I believe I have some selenium deficient kids from two mommas, triplets from one mom and twins from the next. They are sisters and do every thing together including kidding at the same time yesterday and they are sharing kid responsibilities taking turns doing rounds and...
  13. Health & Wellness
    We have had Nigerian Dwarfs for 3 years now. Our first doe we had bred, she kidded 3 huge beautiful babies. Raised all 3 of them no issues and we had little knowledge about feeding goats. We had 2 goats and they just ate all stock feed,alfalfa and grass hay. Those kids turned out great. I've...
  14. Health & Wellness
    I was interested in buying 3 polled kids from one herd 2 does and a buck not related though to each other. what are my chances of geting a hermaphrodite. I don't want to disbud .
  15. Health & Wellness
    I bought 2 buckling at 4 weeks old. They were out of quads and I guess the mama was having a hard time feeding them all. So when I got them they had never had a bottle before. One is doing great. He took to the bottle like a champ. The other...not so much. He will sort of suckle then starts...
  16. Beginners Goat Raising
    We have 7wk old ND kids. 2 buckling, one doeling. How long can we keep them together without risk of the doe getting pregnant. Planning to wether boys, but hoping to hold out as long as possible. These will be pets. Not breeding. Hate the idea of keeping her separate.
  17. Goat Frenzy
    We welcomed our first set of kids this year! only 7 days early, it is currently -16 C where we are and they are doing great!
  18. Beginners Goat Raising
    ive got two 8 month old weathers, they are both nubians and I'm just wondering if feeding them twice a day, 12 hours apart is too long of time to leave in between each feed? any ideas on how i can improve their feeding schedule? they are both eating 300-350g of 'high yield goat mix' from...
  19. Beginners Goat Raising
    I have a 2.5 month old kid that keeps getting alfalfa pellets in the sides of her mouth, I have pulled them out and got bit. Can she choke on them ? The pellets are softened when I pull them out but not all the way. She looks like a chipmunk. Thank you all.
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