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Have you tried different types of hay? I’m allergic to some but found a grass mix that is good for the goats that doesn’t cause me a problem. The goats actually eat more of it than my old stuff. If you get your hay from a local farmer most will give you a bale to try. We did that with four...

I’ll Raet at the bottom and work up. The only issue we have seen with our goats are intestinal worms. We seem to have fixed that though by switching dewormer. We are now using a paste intended for horses. It was the vets suggestion. Next year we hope to switch to natural food based deworming...

The 2 tons would be pretty bad on its own but our vet want alfalfa to just be part of the diet so we would still need the grass hay

If we keep the goats and two llamas in the barn pasture they eat about a bale of hay a day. We are having to keep them close because they found a stretch of barbed wire fence they could get through by pushing their way through a blackberry bramble. It was 6’ deep on our side of the fence at the...

I wish we had someone locally that did enough alfalfa to sell it for $4.5. It's uncommon enough that people want 12 bucks for it. We can get it hauled in from easter Washington for around $6 for the 65lbs bales but we would have to take 2 tons. It would take us years to go through that much...

We've done this in our barn.

Hi Myshalla. We did the same thing you are about to start about 18 months ago. We are here in W. Washington too but we are south of Olympia. Have fun!

Rosebuttons we are south of the sound in Lewis County. If you want to come down and see first hand a starter farm you would be welcome. We started our adventure last spring.

I agree.

I used to have a great list of bad for goat plants but I couldn't find it. Here is a link to one I had on pinterest. https://dairygoatdiariesblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/poisonous-plants-to-goats/

A couple people in my area have a herd of CL positive goats that they lease out as brush clearers. We have black berries here that can cover an entire lot in a year if you let it. Where the whole herd is positive and they only have does and wethers it works out OK, no unwanted pregnancies...

I grew up all over the west but moved back to California with a job right out of college. We are loving it up here. Is you picture on BYH of two alpacas and is so are they yours?

We like the polled goats too. We bought 2 beautiful little doelings last January from a breeder east of the Cascades. It was one heck of a trip to go get them in the middle of a massive snow storm but these two were well worth it. The breeder has even told us we can have first refusal on any...

You're not nosy at all. Our farm is L shaped. We think of it as being made up of three 10 acre squares. The 10 acres square that touches the street is where all of our buildings are located and is where we will be keeping all livestock once we add a fence between it and the back two ten acre...

Amazing price for the pigs!

The 200 - 250 goats was based on pasteurized chevre. We had worked up a business plan with a mentor who has 35 years making goat cheese commercially on a small scale. Our market here will pay more for organic and certification would have been a little easier as our farm hasn't been a working...

The fence we are replacing around our farm is 4 tier 14 gauge and we have watched our goats walk through it without touching a single wire. Our youngest doeling is particularly good at getting around anything but 2"x4" woven. Every time the local farm store has it on sales we buy more rolls.

Good luck saving you babies. There was a Rhodie in the yard when we got here we dug it up and gave it to a neighbor with no livestock. We also had to move a massive old rhubarb. The silly goats kept eating the leaves and getting bad diarrhea.

I'm late to this conversation you have probably long since made your choice. We have concrete floors in our main stalls. Winters here are fairly mild and we change the hay bedding out every 2 weeks so our Nubians aren't laying on cold surfaces. The hard surface makes cleaning really easy, just...

When we decided 2 years ago to check out of the city to raise goats we were living in Long Beach, CA. We looked at setting up with goats in California. I'm actually a 4th generation Californian. The cost to license and water in California were just too much. My husband was born up here so we...