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  1. Health & Wellness
    I gave a mama (Nigerian) 2 pumps of Spectoguard at about 8am. I did not milk her, but was wondering if it is ok to use the 5pm milk to bottle feed to the babies or do I have to dump the milk? Thank you :)
  2. Health & Wellness
    Hey y'all I need some help. I recently purchased a new buck "Nigerian Dwarf" and he is 2 years old. I've had him for a couple weeks now and he was doing great. However today when I went to feed him there was signs of Diarrhea everywhere. He has some on his legs and in his hut. I cleaned up his...
  3. Health & Wellness
    Oh my god, you guys. I'm in over my head and the vet is on vacation. Agatha (12 lbs., 4 mos) and Amoreena (27lbs, 7 mos), two Nigerian Dwarf doelings. Had them about 6 weeks now. We went through a really rough patch, I'm assuming pneumonia, used short acting penicillin for 5 days on both...
  4. Health & Wellness
    Hello everyone! I’m a new goat owner (bought our first two 02/22). Up until last week we had 4 Nubians; 1 older one approx 2yrs old and her daughter who was 3 months old when we bought her. From a different breeder, we bought a set of 3 month old twins last month. About a week after purchasing...
  5. Health & Wellness
    I have 2 buckling Nigerians that are 6 weeks old. I've had them for 2 weeks now. They came from a dam that had quads and couldn't produce enough milk for all of them. The have been on whole milk since they came home with me. One of the boys is doing great. Great energy, talkative, and all...
  6. Health & Wellness
    I picked up a new doe and her doeling, who is about 6 weeks old, on Sunday. They were both sweet and happy and healthy, only about a 20 minute ride home so not super stressful. Late in the day Sunday I noticed mama had clumpy poop, so I gave her probios because that's what always helps my...
  7. Health & Wellness
    Hello, I have 2 does and three kids(4 months olds) that are being dam raised. I've had the does in a dry lot pen since February along with the kids when they were born in March. I have been feeding them grain and alfalfa. I'm trying to introduce them to our pasture which is mostly weeds(...
  8. Goat Management
    I had been fighting off Coccidia in one of my young bucks. Thankfully it cleared but now he has a bit of dried poop stuck on the back of his legs and tail. I was debating bringing him inside and giving him a warm bath and using a soft soap to try to get it off. Or am I better off trimming it...
  9. Beginners Goat Raising
    I have a buck that is about 1 1/2 and he has had dark green scours for a couple days. He’s acting perfectly fine I have been leaving electrolytes our for him but he won’t drink it at all. No fever either just the scours is the only odd thing. This is my first year in goat raising so I’m kind of...
  10. Health & Wellness
    He started to get scours yesterday, but he had quite a bit of alfalfa that day, so I gave him 5 cc goats prefer probiotics. This morning, he still had scours, so i gave him 10 cc of Jumpstart probiotics. I pulled feed from him this evening, and with each probiotics dose i gave him 24 cc of water...
  11. Beginners Goat Raising
    Hello! I am relatively new to goats and have only had them for a little over one year and know very little about the topic of kids. This year we had one baby that was rejected who is now three weeks old. We had a milking goat who provided us with the babies milk for the first two and a half...
  12. Health & Wellness
    Hi All! I’ve been following this website for a few weeks now since my 2 new Nigerians wethers came home and I’m finally deciding to join & ask questions I haven’t found answers to. They are about 5 weeks old today. My guys have been doing great but one has recently had some tummy troubles...
  13. Health & Wellness
    My friends show boer goat wethers and one of them jumps their 8-10 foot fence! he got into the feed, the alfalfa, the hay. they feed show- right and alfalfa and coastal hay along with weekly probios and work them daily... hes had scours for about a week so how shuld they go about treating this?
  14. Health & Wellness
    My eight week old doe has had scours for a few days. I've been doing my best to keep her clean and dry, but her vulva is irritated and bleeding a bit from constant exposure to the diarrhea and from frequent washing. I can't imagine this is comfortable. Is there anything I can do to protect that...
  15. Kidding Koral
    Hello All! I have two little bucklings I acquired from a dairy farmer Wednesday of last week. One is a Saanen (Waylon) and the other is an Alpine (Lucius). Waylon came to me with bloody, highlighter-yellow scours, but that has since cleared up since he has been on the milk replacer. I feed...
  16. Health & Wellness
    Hi! One of the goat kids I'm taking care of has diarrhea. I was hoping for some help diagnosing. She had the diarrhea for 2 days last week before it disappeared. I kept an eye on it but wasn't too concerned because she was acting normal, keeping up with the heard and grazing. I figured she got...
  17. Health & Wellness
    HI! I have this precious new kid who has a bit of a poop problem. It's a normal color but the "berries" are clumped together. When we first got him there was also an orange mucous involved but that has subsided. We got him at 15 days old, now he's 1 month and 1 day. He's a Nigerian Dwarf wether...
  18. Beginners Goat Raising
    I'm back with another question and have searched through the past threads trying to find an answer. Alas, there's not one that closely relates to what we've got going on at the moment. Unless I didn't search far enough back or in the wrong category. :? This is our first go round with goats...
  19. Parasites
    Lady is not doing well. She is severely anemic, is losing weight, and her poops have been fluctuating from normal to pudding consistency. Tonight, her poop is more liquid than solid. Although we have not had a fecal done on her recently, another of our goats just got results back showing high...
  20. Health & Wellness
    I have an eight week old Nigerian Dwarf Buckling who started getting diarrhea today. He was disbudded at 3 weeks. He started getting scurs recently so I had him disbudded again yesterday. The second time was much more stressful on him. He has been very healthy up to this point and has had his...
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