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The goat is primarily affected on the rear limb, circumferentially, from the hock joint (superior) or point of hock all the way to her hoof (inferior). If she was a horse, it would be most correct to say her entire canon bone area was involved. I've not seen that term applied to goats or, my...

A friend suggested that it is rain rot, or the goat-hock equivalent. I have posted photos of the hock here I'm going shotgun here. It was getting to be time for worming anyway, so every goat got a dose of oral ivomec. I used a steel comb to clean out the worst and thickest of the crusty...

While milking this morning I found that one of my Saanen cross does has thick whitish scabby crusting all around her left hock. Very thick and nasty. It does go down between her toes a little, and there is some above the hock joint, but it is thickest on the hock itself, all the way around...

I rolled rotten eggs that had failed under a broody into a groundhog hole. This was a very effective eviction notice. Dunno if you want to go there under your chicken house, though. And dunno if a skunk would be bothered, or consider them a housewarming gift.

I keep my dog sidekick nearby when dealing with the goats, and I don't allow any goat to take liberties with my person. Rosie (the English shepherd bitch) watches my back. The goats respect her a LOT. She moves them where I need them to go, and keeps them back when I have work to do -- like...

Also, putting your goats in right next to your vegetables really is asking for trouble, no matter what kind of fencing you use.

Your dimensions are much too small. I used a 16x16 tractor made from four cattle panels for a while, and will still use it if I need a small area browsed over. It works well. I clip the panels together at the corners, and add as many t-posts as necessary for support. Now I'm using...

I'm looking for a chart with normal growth curves for dairy breed goats. I want to be sure my doelings are growing at the right rate, and are on track to breed this fall. I'd have thought that google would turn something like this up pretty easily, but no dice. Ideas?

That's exactly the cross I have -- 3/4 Saanen, 1/4 Nubian. Can't tell you how they milk or anything as mine are brand new. But I think I got a really good goat for a reasonable price by getting the dairy cross instead of a registered purebred. I really like them, they have nice temperaments...

Photo of the tractor here : It's just four cattle panels clipped together at the corners. Since there isn't a spot of level ground on this place, I use old existing fence posts (am laboriously ripping out the noxious old barbed wire and smooth wire "fences") and the occasional driven t-post...

I'm a little confused about "free choice hay all day." Do you have hay out on pasture with them? My doelings spend the daylight hours out in a moving goat tractor, with a good mix of browse and grass. We shift the pen about every third day, when they've made a good dent in all the forage...

Hey Scout, why not look for good-quality dairy breed (including crosses of dairy breeds) does near you, rather than decide on a breed and then look for just that breed? It doesn't sound as if you have a strong aesthetic preference for one kind or another, so don't limit yourself by breed. And...