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My name is Sarah and I am a new goat owner! I have three beautiful alpine goats that I purchased from a local breeder. I have two bucklings that are currently 1 month old (today!) and a beautiful doe who is 3 months old. My husband and I bought a house that had a fenced 1-acre pasture and stable already built so all we had to do was get the animals! Last year we raised a bull for beef over the growing season and had him butchered in October. We "goat-sat" for a friend so the bull had company. I LOVED having the goats back there! We are raising beef cattle again this year and decided to have goats of our own to keep him company.
So, without further ado, meet our kids: George Michael (black one), Buster (black and white one) and Lucille (AKA "Lucy", brown and tan one).
Right now we are all set with some good mixed-grass hay, Blue Seal medicated grain (for the boys, we will have them castrated when they get a bit older), lots of pasture for grazing, and a comfortable stable for shelter. I also have some medicine on the way to stock up our medicine cabinet for the goats. I purchased some Probiotics, Fortified Vitamin B-12 gel, Bovi-Sera, C&D Antitoxin, and Bio-mycin. I just dewormed Lucy with Ivermectin from the vet. She already had her dosing of Corid to prevent Coccidia before we got her. The boys will get their dosing in a few weeks. I am really hoping I've covered everything at this point!
My biggest concerns about being a new goat owner: 1 - that I do not recognize signs of some sort of illness and do not know how to properly treat it once identified and 2 - I am nervous about winter care. We live in a very windy spot and our stable has two wide open doors and no electricity (at the moment, we are planning on getting a solar panel out there). I may have to figure something out to keep it warmer in there during the cold windy central Pennsylvania winter days. Maybe pile up bales of hay or straw in front of the door outside their pen. We'll see.
I am really happy to have found this forum. I've already posted a thread and a few replies and am looking forward to getting to know the community better! I have to say I find myself spending a lot of time browsing the breeding pen photos! Goat kids are so freaking cute! I cannot wait to breed my doe in a year or two
My name is Sarah and I am a new goat owner! I have three beautiful alpine goats that I purchased from a local breeder. I have two bucklings that are currently 1 month old (today!) and a beautiful doe who is 3 months old. My husband and I bought a house that had a fenced 1-acre pasture and stable already built so all we had to do was get the animals! Last year we raised a bull for beef over the growing season and had him butchered in October. We "goat-sat" for a friend so the bull had company. I LOVED having the goats back there! We are raising beef cattle again this year and decided to have goats of our own to keep him company.
So, without further ado, meet our kids: George Michael (black one), Buster (black and white one) and Lucille (AKA "Lucy", brown and tan one).
Right now we are all set with some good mixed-grass hay, Blue Seal medicated grain (for the boys, we will have them castrated when they get a bit older), lots of pasture for grazing, and a comfortable stable for shelter. I also have some medicine on the way to stock up our medicine cabinet for the goats. I purchased some Probiotics, Fortified Vitamin B-12 gel, Bovi-Sera, C&D Antitoxin, and Bio-mycin. I just dewormed Lucy with Ivermectin from the vet. She already had her dosing of Corid to prevent Coccidia before we got her. The boys will get their dosing in a few weeks. I am really hoping I've covered everything at this point!
My biggest concerns about being a new goat owner: 1 - that I do not recognize signs of some sort of illness and do not know how to properly treat it once identified and 2 - I am nervous about winter care. We live in a very windy spot and our stable has two wide open doors and no electricity (at the moment, we are planning on getting a solar panel out there). I may have to figure something out to keep it warmer in there during the cold windy central Pennsylvania winter days. Maybe pile up bales of hay or straw in front of the door outside their pen. We'll see.
I am really happy to have found this forum. I've already posted a thread and a few replies and am looking forward to getting to know the community better! I have to say I find myself spending a lot of time browsing the breeding pen photos! Goat kids are so freaking cute! I cannot wait to breed my doe in a year or two
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