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Can anyone help me? We have a baby doe who just started to ooze diarrhea. Her Mama hasn't been doing a good job of feeding her so we have bottle fed her at least two times a day and let her try to fend for herself with Mama, but today for the first time she woke up and was filled with poop...

OK, now we have to think about the gruesome stuff. Does anyone have experience with disbudding with caustic? Any thoughts are appreciated. Good or bad. Thanks so much. Chickylou

Thank you! It's worked out. Mama decided to want them, but needed recoup time after a hard birth. The female hasn't figured it out so we milk the goat and bottle feed her three times a day. This is quite the learning process, but we have 5 healthy and vibrant little Nigi/pygmies. :D

THANK YOU! All for your encouragement and your advice. Buttercup is recuperating well. I'm just soooo new at all of this. I had to manually go into her womb and help remove a dead baby. I had the vet on the phone guiding me in all of this and it was agonizing for her and me as I knew I was...

Anyone, if you can give some counsel. My goat had a horrible and traumatic birth. She is now shaking. She expelled the placenta, but she is baahhing and won't move and she wants comfort. Is there something I can do for her? I had to manually adjust a goat inside of her and it was dead, but...

Help me if you can. My Nigerian just delivered three goats. It was a traumatic birth. The first and second baby came out OK, but the third got caught, head to side and two feet coming out. It didn't make it after a lot of pushing and I finally had to go in there and readjust to get the baby...

OK, One more question. Our Petunia has become aggressive after the birth of her little babies. She is in a separate pen with her triplets, but when I gave her a break to go and be with her long time buddy and friend, Buttercup, they got really aggressive with each other. The ears went down...

Can you all help me understand? We just had little triplets. Beautiful little babies. Our children named them after famous explorers so we have: Louis and Clark and Ferdinand Megellan. :D I thought they were all males because they all had little dangling things on the side of their jaws. I...

Hi All, Well our Petunia is HUGE and she has been showing lots of signs of delivery. 1) She is so full her udders almost touch the ground. 2) She's been soooo affectionate and talks to me all the time. She wants me to pet her and massage her tailbone area. Today I went in to check on her...

Hi, I need some advice. I just heard from another family that has goats that one of their baby goats died because they didn't bottle feed it the right way (drowned?? Went down the wrong way?). Can you help me understand this? How do you bottle feed correctly then? I don't want mine to die...

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Hi, I need some advice. I just heard from another family that has goats that one of their baby goats died because they didn't bottle feed it the right way (drowned?? Went down the wrong way?). Can you help me understand this? How do you bottle feed correctly then? I don't want mine to die...

Is it really hard on the Mama goats to pull their babies or are they pretty "I don't care" about it. I'm so confused. As a Mama, I just keep empathizing!!! I see how huge they are and I think about my own HUGE pregnancies. I'm trying to see them as just animals, but I can't shake the horror of...

Hi all, My milker Petunia is VERY pregnant. She got prego in December and I'm pretty sure she is going to have twins. I was just reading my book about goats and weaning. He recommends that you immediately take them from their mothers and milk them. What do you do when you want a milking...

Thank you all so much! I appreciate your feedback. :lol: I sure hope they get prego.

Folks I need help! I don't have a buck, but found one for my goatie girls. We took them to the farm and immediately the buck was interested in one,m my Buttercup (she's my worst milker! UGH!). I left them there and it has been about one month. I really want my Petunia prego because she is my...

Hi, Anybody know? I don't want to give them bloat. :D

Hi, Anybody out there have Nigerian Bucks that they breed? We just can't find anybody close and our next option is to breed them with Pygmy buck. Any counsel? Thanks :)

Hi all, Do any of you know if you have to stop milking your goat in order for her to go into heat and become pregnant? We have a great little milker and I want to breed her so she has more milk for us next year, but I don't know if I should stop her milking in order to get her bred. Thanks...