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Welcome =) Goats are tough on fences, I hope you have them in good shape. If your goats are anything like mine, they love attention, so make sure you give it to them hehe Other than that, you will probably have to ask a specific question, there are a ton of things that people will share with...

They are Boer/pygmy crosses as far as I can tell. All I know for sure is that they are great pets =) They will come up on the back porch and stare at us through the french doors until we go pet them. This isn't a great pic, and it's a little old, they have now started getting their beards.

I'll stop to let them out and stretch at rest stops, but I don't think we can find a place to let them out overnight (hotel or whatever). This should be an interesting trip.. hehe

The wifes family lives in Longmont (near Mead) If we could have found a job offering closer we would have, but it's only 2 hours away, and that's a LOT better than 30 hours. hehe

Great ideas there Queen Mum, I didn't think about a dog harness. They wear collars well, but don't like to walk on a lead too much, A harness would at least stop them from choking themselves when something spooks them. And I am fully expecting to leave a trail of hay from here to there. hehe

on the plus side for them, we are looking at a house with 40 acres. and another with 10 acres. that would be a lot more room for them, as they have a little less than an acre to roam on now hehe. Their "temporary home" at our uncles farm has 20 acres. If they can just bear with us and endure...

My wife is a Veterinarian, she has all the health certificates under control. and they will have scrapie info/tattoos this weekend I have a 99 ford ranger stepside, I have been looking for a camper shell for it, but they are pretty rare... I may wind up getting or making a dog box like thing...

My wife is originally from CO, her uncle has a farm out there with cows/goats/sheep, he will be taking care of our goats till' we get settled. So they have a place to stay as soon as they get there. I figure that we are going to have to drive it straight through.. not a lot of hotels accept...

We are accepting a job today in Colorado. that means relocating from eastern NC to Colorado Springs. or about 1700 miles.. roughly 30 hours of drive time. We have 2 goats and want to take them with us. We are selling our chickens.. sadly I don't think we could take them with us. so.. what is...

The goats were 5 months old on the 2nd dehorning, my wife is a vet, so we took them in and put them under. I wouldn't try it yourself with an iron, and the wife said we can't do it again.. something about sinus cavity being fully formed or something like that. I'm not the vet, but I'll ask her...

Yes, horns look very good on a goat.. But, they are not welcome at my little farm. I have 2 young children that love playing with the goats, they climb on the stumps and wire reels with the goats and play for hours. Horns can be very dangerous in that situation. Also, my wifes uncle has goats...

I noticed that you are in NC (same as me) so I will give you the contact info I have. Nc Department of Agriculture & Consumer services Veterinary Division 1030 Mail Service Center Raliegh, NC 27699-1030 The lady I spoke to was Leslie Kent, DVM, She is the Scrapie Program Coordinator. her...

thanks for the info guys, you have been helpful. Luckily my wife is a vet, and I think we can get the job done with as little pain possible for them =) I was mainly interested in the number of digits, and tattooers. It kinda sucks that I have 9 digits in my farm ID number.. is everyone elses...

I don't know how cute they are to you, but I love my critters =) This is Madigan, she is an 8 week old Irish Red White Setter. Cutest puppy? I think so =) This is Madigan meeting the goats. Phineas is coming over to check her out. He is a hansom goat, not sure if he is "cutest goat"...

Yeah, we are in little Washington, pretty close to Greenville. For a LaMancha, here is a way to tattoo the tail, and make a nifty green butted goat =) http://fiascofarm.com/goats/tattoo.htm

here is what I have found so far, it has 5 digits, so that means 3 reloads per goat =/ http://hambydairysupply.com/xcart/product.php?productid=1816 On the plus side, it comes with 2 sets of numbers and a set of letters a-z and has an ear release. I would like to see what everyone else uses...

As I said, they are pets, and we like petting their ears =) It is purely a cosmetic reason, nothing more.

ooh, that is 9 characters on one ear, and the herd number on the other (4 digits) So if I got a tattooer that did 4 characters, I would have to reset it 4 times per goat... Trying to avoid that hehe

We only have 2 goats, but we were thinking of moving and one of the requirements to move goats is to have them tagged or tattoo'd for scrapie. I got all the info and contacted the USDA, they sent me an information packet and a set of tags for the goats (Even had a tagging tool). But, seeing as...

Hehe I guess this thread is a bit stale isn't it? Let's see if anything interesting has happened... We had to re-de horn the goats... the first try apparently we didn't get all of them on either goat =/ They started growing back. Luckily, my wife is a veterinarian and we just took them to...