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As I'm sure many of you are dealing with today, we here are dealing with unusually extreme cold today. It's currently 17* out with a steady wind. My bucks have been lightly shivering pretty much all day. I covered their cattle panel door with a tarp to help block a little more wind. They...

Hello, We have a senior goat about 16 years old... I know very old.. we have her over a year now, we rescued her, she is a floppy eared Nubian. Sshe started showing signs of illness about 3 weeks ago when the vet seen her she had a temperature so she was commenced on antibiotics, the vet...

New to goats and I have two Pygmy brothers that are housed in a rather large doghouse, but currently don’t have other shelter in their paddock. It’s 25 F with a windchill of 18 F. It’s also snowing, a wet snow, and piling up. Both are visibly wet, but cashmere looks dry. One is shivering. Given...

Hi there! My name is Cindy and I just bought two 9 week old Nigerian Dwarf goats. I am brand spankin' new to having goats, but my husband grew up on a "hobby" farm. We got these guys from a reputable breeder 45min. from us. They are both males and were banded the day we picked them up (Aug...

My five year old Mini Nubian May has suddenly stopped eating. This is the goat that has frequent problems with ketosis (I think - the vet diagnosed it the first time and after that whenever she showed the same symptoms I treated it like ketosis and she got better). I’ve upped her alfalfa and...

I got Chloe on August 18th 2018, bottle fed with another goat, Faith. I'm not 100% on all of the information of the parents or the herd they came from, just that they are from different does but the same buck. Chloe seems to be a Lamancha but may have Nubian in her, Faith is a cross between...