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Guess what, goats will walk right over chain link fencing, grrrrr Add electric, it works :D Mostly, they learn to respect that wire. When Dixie first came onto our place, we didn't have electric. A few days later, we ran some around part of the backyard, just to keep them off the back door. One...

Baaaacooooonnnnnn. Good grief what a score!

:welcome I'm also from Mississippi. The teeny tiny town of Carrollton :D

Raw all the way now for just over a month, absolutely no problems. Cheese, yogurt, drinking it straight. Best friend's son had way more problems with storebought than he did with my goat's raw milk. Keep everything clean & your equpiment sterile, and unless the goats are sickly, you shouldn't...

That's a pretty girl! What a great birthday present :)

I hand milk too, but my girl is very well endowed :D I did see a easy to build & cheap spray bottle milker online. I'll try to find the link. They used a larger plastic syringe, a short length of tubing & a new spray bottle top with a stream setting. From what I remember, you pull out the...

All I could think was ouch! :lol: Thanks :) Free, I'm pretty sure she was dried up before she was bred and her babies are 4 months old now. I'll double check with her previous owner. Just struck me as wierd that it just started, and then I coupled it with being kicky all over again, well, I...

:ep Yeah, the one they showed me looked like a meat injector. I do not want to do that to my girl. I guess I'm just doing the new mommy bit, obsessing over a non-issue. I'll just keep on with what I am doing unless the CMT comes back positive. I really just wanted to make sure I didn't do...

Thanks, ksalvagno. Does anyone have any tips or advice, please? My feed store suggested a milk needle? I'm not sure what that is (although I can guess) and I don't want to subject her to that if it is what it sounds like.

Mods if you could move this to diseases-goats? http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4751 Update: This weekend I took extra care in gently scrubbing her teat orifices. That seemed to help a bit, in that I didn't get the waterhose effect, but still not like normal. It took me an...

Thanks ksal, I'll do that.

Little more info, her udder is not swollen, red, hot or in any way different that I can see from when we first started milking. She's eating fine, good rumen, her condition dipped a bit when we first brought her home but she's recovering some now. Her temps are normal (102.9 this morning)...

I am so sorry to hear about your loss. :hugs

No heat, her udder is warm all over, but not fever warm. I'm using the Fiasco farm recipe, drop of blue Dawn, tablespoon of bleach & pint warm water as a wash & dip. I don't double dip & I use paper towels to wash with right now.

I've had Dixie almost a month and recently started noticing a difference in her left teat. It's a little harder to start the milk on that side and when it does start I get the finger-over-waterhose spray effect. (excuse me while I wipe milk out of my eye...) It takes about 15 squeezes to get a...

I'm using pine shavings under dry leaves, but I have a dirt floor as well.

:woot I bet that's a relief off poor Mya. Yay, baby!!

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:ep That's a whole herd with one birth!!

I don't separate mine (newbie rabbit owner) but window screen over a basin would work. The liquid would pour right through but the pellets would stay on top. Then just rake them off into a container. What I don't know is if there is a reason to separate? I guess for selling, but what about what...