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Thats great!! We have a Jersey Cow and have just raised a holstein off of her, but she wouldnt let him nurse unless we made her, however she loves that calf. Hes about ready to be weaned now, so were looking for another calf but we would really like to be able to let the calf nurse, hopefully...

Yes we do milk her for our own milk. Thats what we want is to be able to milk just what we need and to let the calf have the rest.

We do not have a chute to run her into. She loves the calf that we have with her now, she just wont let him nurse unless we make her, u know tie her or hold the lead rope and tell her to let the calf suck or u know just make her let him nurse, but now hes getting to where he can be weaned and...

We currently have a Jersey milk cow. She is a great cow, doesent care who milks her or which side you milk her on. Currentyly she is giving about 3-4 gallons of milk a day. We have a Holstein steer that weve raised off of her milk, but its about time for him to be weened. We had to raise him off...

Right now, we have all of our goats together, 1 buckling, 1 wether, and 2 doelings. They have a roll of good hay in the pin with them and they play on the roll of hay and eat what they want off of it. We feed grain only in the evening when they are put in the barn. Black Oil Sunflower Seed is...

We have been using just the Bronco brand equine fly spray on our goats and it seems to be working well doesnt last forever though usually have to use it about every coupla days or so. Ive also heard that sprinkling 7 dust on them works also, havent tried that though.

There is a goat section on backyard herds.

We are new to goats also. One thing that we have learned is that goats are very curious/nosy. They like to see whats goin on. One thing that has worked for us is taking a treat (apple/oat flavored horse cookies broke in half) and just hold it out and just wait for them to come to you. Then once...

We have staked all 4 of our goats out before we got our pin finished and never had any problems, we just used the screw in type stakes with 30 feet cables, we just staked them out just far enough to where they could get within about 2 feet of each other without getting tangled. However we always...

Im sorry we must have missed something, what happened? Sorry for your loss, must be hard. Get so attached.

So where is it that yall buy this purina or pelleted goat feed?? What is the price for the pelleted or purina "GOOD" goat feed? We hate to keep changing feeds, its hard on them to keep doing that isnt it? I am thankful for any information that you can share, its the last thing we want to do is...

So is what you are saying is that we shouldnt even be feeding sweet feed? We have stopped feeding the corn and started feeding 16% sweet "GOAT" feed from TSC. They are all healthy and seem to be doing well. ??

Were you feeding whole or cracked corn. Our goats love cracked corn but we have stopped giving it to them since weve been reading everything and people say its bad for their kidneys. Would cracked corn be any different than whole corn?

We are new to goat farming. Have a Saanen buckling and doeling, an oberhasli mix wether and an oberhasli doe. We have been reading alot and see alot of articles that say "chicken feed" causes problems with the males like kidney problems and such. Just wondering if anyone could tell us if cracked...