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  1. Goat Management
    I have a doe in milk, she was fine during this mornings milking, but tonight she was the last to come home (walk!) and didn’t eat any hay and clearly she wasn’t feeling well. I had to find her to milk her, when she is always first. She did not eat on the stand and when I milked her the one side...
  2. Health & Wellness
    I recently hear about snake root. Apparently in the past, is killed thousands of people because their animals ate the plant and they drank the milk. They called it Milk fever or Milk Sickness, and they didn't really know what caused it until one lady talked to an Indian woman who helped her...
  3. Dairy Diaries
    Hello! We're looking into milker options for our nubian does (currently only two.) I have carpal tunnel and my husband's schedule is kinda silly (12 hour shifts most days.) So we're looking into options that I can manage the milking in the morning myself without getting up at 3-4am. Our one doe...
  4. Kidding Koral
    My doe kidded in February and has a lopsided udder. About two or three weeks ago I noticed one of her teats, the smaller dried up one, is expressing a clear fluid. It doesn't have a smell or color and her good side is milked without issue, no off flavor or anything. Should I be worried? We are...
  5. Goat Management
    Hello everyone, I’m having problems getting good information on how to schedule this falls breeding. How long before kidding do I need to dry up my alpines and how long does it take to dry them up? Background: I have three alpines which I rely on to supply my household with milk and would like...
  6. Dairy Diaries
    Hi So I have a goat and I was milking her, as normal, and I was milking her for me to use. I was doing the first squirts and her right side seemed completely fine all the way through milking but her left side was something I have never seen before. The left side felt a little different than...
  7. Dairy Diaries
    I have recently bought the Motor-Sich 100-15 and need help troubleshooting. Question 1. "We are having an issue with the Cream Separator we just got yesterday. If we install the black rubber O-ring at the bottom and turn the machine on the rubber O-ring seems to expand and rubs on side of the...
  8. Health & Wellness
    My 6 year old doe is due to kid this week .The front of her udder where her vain is has three lumps one right after each other which are soft and squishy the vain it's self is puffy and there is pockets of flued in it .Oh she seems to have other vains that are doing the same thing I'll put pic's...
  9. Dairy Diaries
    Hi! New dairy goat owner! Had kids on Thursday. Birthing was not easy, I had to pull. Both Obers broke in with the wrong buck (bigger in size) and caught. 3 days after birth my one first time mom has a fever. I had a wellness checkup after birth since I had to pull, I will call the vet again...
  10. Dairy Diaries
    Hi, so yesterday I got a milking momma who kidded 8 weeks ago. She is used to being on the stand and being hand milked by her previous owner. I brought her home and she didn’t even make a sound in the car the whole 1 hour drive. We got to the house and at 4 went out to try to get her on the...
  11. Dairy Diaries
    Hi! We have Nigerian dwarf goats and we drink their milk. My youngest will be ten months tomorrow. I weaned my other three at 10 months (after an iron test) and switched them to whole milk. I would love to give him our goats milk, but I’ve read there might be too much protein in it? Has anyone...
  12. Dairy Diaries
    Hi yall.. i have a 2 1/2 yr old doe nubian/sanaan X.. she had her first babies in November.. i statted milming her aftsr about 2 weeks a d she only have 1/2 quart but i was thankful.. now her kids are 8 weeks and just weaned.. her production has dropped in half some days less.. she eats hay...
  13. Health & Wellness
    Hello everyone. Hope all is well I was surprised this morning to see one of my first-timer doe's gave birth! When I came out to check on them, she must have just birthed them maybe a half hour before I came out. She kidded a week earlier than expected. She was due next Thursday. Anyways, as I...
  14. Dairy Diaries
    So my two does were missing for 4 days in wooded mountains around my house. I’m sure they walked under power lines at least once. The power company sprayed about a week prior. So they plants were already browning/yellowing. I started to wonder if I should be concerned about chemicals in their...
  15. Dairy Diaries
    Due to timing this morning, I was only able to filter and chill my milk before putting it in the fridge. We pasteurize as I have a young child with a sensitive tummy, and so this evening after milking I filtered, chilled, and then combined the two quarts for pasteurizing and rechilling. I don't...
  16. Dairy Diaries
    Hi Gang, We've been milking our own goats for over a decade now. Now faced this one before: The girls all kidded in April and May. The milk has been wonderful - sweet and creamy. It usually keeps about a week before it starts to lose quality. I've made a zillion pounds of farmer's cheese...
  17. Goat Management
    So, it just dawned upon me, (when i saw briar drinking from one of my does!) that my boys are too young to be weaned. They are almost 8 weeks old, and lost their mamma on Sunday. I know they probably wont take to a bottle too well but i will try to get them to. I have a doe in milk, who has no...
  18. Dairy Diaries
    Hi All - So I have been a goat fanatic for awhile (guilty, sorry husband) and am now am beginning to get more into milk and milking genetics, milk testing and etc. I was wondering if you all had any tips and tricks for maximizing udder growth and potential? In the past we have always had dam...
  19. Health & Wellness
    I have a doe who has both mastitis & an injured teat end. To milk her I must remove a scab at the teat orifice. At next milking it is again scabbed over. There has to be a way to get her milked & treated when necessary without the pain of removing a scab each time. Also, there needs to be a way...
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