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  1. Health & Wellness
    I have a Nigerian Dwarf Doeling that is nearly 2 days old & the mom has not let her nurse. I've been bottle feeling since she was 17 hours old. She is nearly 2 days old now & weighs 2.67 lbs. The last feeding, which was this morning at 8:40 am, she only ate 3/4 of an ounce. I use Producer...
  2. Health & Wellness
    Hi! I am looking for some advice. We are new to goats and in the process of setting up just a backyard herd we ended up with two does that were already bred (both Nigerian dwarfs). I had my vet check them out and we figured out an estimated due date window. Both does have successfully kidded...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. Beginners Goat Raising
    I CIDRed a dry yearling doe that has been known to have silent heats. Fourteen days later, I pulled it the CIDR. Twenty four hours later, her vulva was pinker than what her vulva normally looks like) and looked swollen/a bit open, and she would wag her tail (not constantly) but every so often. I...
  6. Goat Conformation
    I will be bringing home these two next week. Originally we were going to get wethers but I found these does and realized they were a much better fit for us (my mom loves mini nubians LOL). We are very excited and I am looking for opinions on them just out of curiosity. They are unregistered and...
  7. New Member Introductions
    Hello all 👋 I finally found someone near me with goats for sale! Lots of people near me breed Nigerian Dwarfs so I’ve been checking Facebook daily for a while. Now I’ve been in contact with someone with two 4 year old wethers that I will be picking up on the 3rd! The tan goat is Nigerian Dwarf...
  8. Waiting Room
    It’s about that time of year again… breeding is just around the corner! I cannot believe this is my third year in a row creating a kidding thread, time seems to fly so fast. We’re planning on breeding a little later this year in November instead of October. Figured it will be easier on us and...
  9. Goat Management
    We have a lot of wild raspberry bushes here and I was thinking of drying the leaves and then giving them to my soon to be pregnant does. Is there any difference with wild raspberry leaves?
  10. Goat Management
    Hello Goat Spot community, I was wondering what happens if a goat aborts or something like that? I ask as my does started getting big (pretty sure they were/still are pregnant) but all of a sudden they seemed to have gotten smaller. I don't see any sign of them giving birth, could this just be...
  11. Health & Wellness
    Hello all! I have this ND doe named Sophie who looks like she is so fat! She really isn’t as I can feel her ribs and if anything she is on the skinny side. She is currently getting dewormed and has free choice minerals and gets selenium and a copper bolus every 6 months. She has been like this...
  12. Beginners Goat Raising
    A large portion of my property has a poison ivy infestation and ever since I moved there I have been told countless times by many different people that goats love to eat poison ivy, and I should get or rent some to eat it. So when a friend offered us two Nigerian Dwarf kids I said yes, if for...
  13. Dairy Diaries
    Double Orifice: Yes or No? I think it is sadly…… It’s on my registered ND doe☹ Questions: 1) Genetic trait that can be passed down or just a random fluke? 2) Selling any of her doelings and/or wethers (even if clean teated) would be basically selling bad genetics right? 3) Only logical thing...
  14. Goat Frenzy
    Hello all, I recently purchased a registered nigerian dwarf doe in milk. I am very excited about her and we will be picking her up on Saturday. My question is if I breed her to a unregistered buck is there any way I can register her offspring? I am totally new to this and she will be my first...
  15. Health & Wellness
    Hello all, this is my first time posting here:) yesterday I noticed that one of our goats Latte has a lump underneath her jaw. It’s about the size of a golf ball but longer. It also jiggles when she walks. She had access to loose minerals and gets selenium and copper regularly as our soil is...
  16. Kidding Koral
    Had a quick question about Nigerian Dwarfs' gestation period. My sister-in-law was telling me her NDs consistently kid about a week earlier than her Nubians do. Do they actually have a shorter gestational period than larger breeds, or is this just something unique to her particular goats?
  17. Kidding Koral
    Hi all! Do yall think that my Nigerian Dwarf doe might be pregnant? I put her with the buck sometime in October. If she is pregnant, how far along do yall think she is? (I took these pictures a week ago, and she has gotten slightly bigger.)
  18. Waiting Room
    Merry Christmas everyone! I previously mentioned I would be renting a buck to breed my doe, Nya, who is a Nigerian Dwarf mix. She did get bred on August 11th which means her due date is January 9th, so kids should be here shortly! She has had two sets of twins previously, but since she is so...
  19. New Member Introductions
    Hello. My name is Kristen and I am new to the goat world. I have been wanting to get into raising goats for a while and few weeks ago I got my first breeding pair. I have peanut who is an unregistered buck, and jellly who is an unregistered doe. Both are Nigerian dwarf. I was wanting goats...
  20. 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...
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