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Irish and Lainey, soon to be Mammas:) Ready for some spring and grass and kids!

While my does have been pregnant I've had them on a 14% Textra feed. My Sanaan is due to kid in three weeks and I'm wanting to gradually up her protein. The store gave my husband the 16% Stock NCA feed labelled Sheep (with no copper)- saying they didn't have it just for goats. Should I...

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Too funny Jenn. He does look a bit scary!! lol

The goats will know how much they need so they'll only consume that much. I sprinkle a couple pinches of loose minerals on their grain just to make sure they get some.

Thanks for the reply. They are getting about a quart Each. My step dad is a dairy farmer on our road and grows grass to feed his herd. This is where we get our hay. It's good stuff. About the 18% feed, it's what I've been feeding them during lactation.

This is our first year having pregnant does through the whole winter. When we purchased them last Feb they were pregnant. They are given free choice grassy hay and a quart (yogurt container) of 14% feed in the morning with a half cup of alfalfa pellets dressed on top. They have access to...

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This is our first breeding season and it's so obvious that our doe is in heat! I thought we'd have no idea-have to get a buck rag, etc. Her tail is continuously wagging and she's dripping back there. And our buckling (her kid) is right around the corner and she's trying to climb the fence to...

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We have a screaming buck who lost his sibs to a sale. We threw a few chickens in with him and it quieted him down. My does fence runs along the chicken yard and those two are always hanging out and have found a way to poke their head through the fence and watch the chickens and ducks all day...

I throw a handful of pellets on my doe's sweet feed twice a day. She loves it and tries to get a mouthful when she walks by the can. I have some cubes and they are hard as a ROCK. If you soak a few they really expand into a good amount of alfalfa...and it smells really fresh and it's rich...

At first I set out a mineral feeder but it always got messy, dried up, or got pooped in. Now, I just pinch a good amount and sprinkle it on their morning feedings.

I would find a local dairy farmer and see who he uses for a farm vet. A local vet who I've never used for my animals will run a fecal for $14 and a recommendation over the phone.

I found my sweet Irish laying on the ground with one hoof caught way up in the top of the fence wire. Scared me soo bad!! I had let her young buck out to roam a little and once my does saw him, they got nosey and climbed the fence. I could not get it undone as it was wrapped tight, and had...

That has happened with my first timer too. But it stopped in a day or two. I have no idea.

I'm selling my twin boys. One I banded already a while back, and the other I thought we'd keep, but we've decided not to. Anyway, is 18 weeks too old to band him?? Will the new owners run into problems if we him at this age? They are requesting it and will pick them up in a week.