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  1. Health & Wellness
    Hello all, I have two Nigerian dwarfs that are around 9 months old and I've had them since they were 2 months. I've noticed that they get a bit bloated an hour or two after eating and I've been giving them baking soda 2-3 times a week with their food. They're diet is a combination of grazing and...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. New Member Introductions
    Hello all, I am new here and I thought I would tell you a little about our homestead:) we have 19 goats ( a mix of adults and kids) we raise Nigerians and kikos. We have two heifers and an assortment of heritage hens. We have one barn cat named Finny and one Great Pyrenees LGD named Bear.
  5. Waiting Room
    Well, we're down to 3 does on Groovy Grunder's Farm; Old lady Annika - she'll be 13 this month and is just planning on playing "Auntie" to the coming kids of her herd mates. Then there's Claire, an F1 mini Lamancha (bred to a Nigerian) who's a 3rd freshener and Pooka, an F2 mini Lamancha first...
  6. Bucks
    So apparently the buck I just bought like my ladies much more than the ladies he was around. I put him in one half of the barn as he escaped from my pen encloser with ribbon electrical fencing. I have about a 4’ fence and I don’t think he will stay in it when I put him there. Help! I need solutions!
  7. Beginners Goat Raising
    I am new to NDs and I currently have an unregistered breeding pair. I was wanting to get some registered does so I can have both registered and unregistered stock. What should I be looking for when it comes to registered does. Since I’m starting out I don’t need anything too fancy but would be...
  8. Hi!

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    This is Patty, our 17mo ADGA ND doe. She's into everything and tries to sneak into the house every chance she gets. They don't come any sweeter,
  9. Goat Management
    I just want to know how y’all feel about selling to meat buyers. I have nothing against people butchering their animals, I want to start butchering some chickens soon. But I am selling some nigerian kids right now and I’ve had offers to buy or trade them so that they can be butchered. I don’t...
  10. Goat Management
    I have been exclusively using electric netting to contain my Nigerian Dwarfs so far (premium 48" poultry netting from Starkline, energized with a 1.2 joule energizer from Premier1). It's working great. My goats have stayed contained, and the neighborhood dogs avoid it like the plague now. That...
  11. Goat Frenzy
    so, i recently bought a buck named saul (about 8 or 9 months old) i know for certain he has a little angora in him (i've seen his mom) and likely a fair about of ND but he is SO wide and SO chunky.later today or tomorrow i will get an above view of him but for now we don't have that. do you guys...
  12. Goat Frenzy
    What’s yalls opinion on mixed herds? I have a decently diverse herd. I have mostly nigerians with nigerian mixes, a pygmy, nubian, and a french alpine. Two of my goats have some boer in them too.
  13. Beginners Goat Raising
    I recently purchased my first three registered Nigerian dwarf does. As I was filling out the bottom for transfer on one of them I was distracted and put my address where my name should have been. So my first question is can white out be used on this official document to correct my mistake...
  14. 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...
  15. Beginners Goat Raising
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  16. Health & Wellness
    Has anyone any experience with Iris Coloboma? I bought a Nigerian dwarf that I have noticed has a weird shaped pupil, that does not dilate in bright light. Iris Coloboma is the only thing that I can find that fits the description. But I see nothing on the internet to indicate that goats have...
  17. Mini Mania
    So, little background since I'm new to the forum. We had meat goats when I was a kid, now I have my own mixed bag herd of dairy/dual purpose girls. Nubians, nubian crosses, sables, and a lamancha. All of course in medium to large size. I was completely and totally fine with that, and then I went...
  18. Waiting Room
    Hey y'all. Newbie here with my gals Coco and Zeppy. We're all new to this kidding thing. My girls are FF and Coco is due March 6-7, and Zeppy is due any time between March 6 & April 10. I think Zeppy is likely due between March 13 and 20th though based on heat signs and a messy rear end.
  19. Health & Wellness
    Is there any significant difference in how interstitial pneumonia presents in a one-month-old kid? Other than dosage, is there a differential in how to treat?
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