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:/ I've been organizing my online albums, will add back shortly.

I've been trying to explain this recently. You have to have an understanding of extruded feed production...and then compare pellets side by side along with analysis of the tag and a call to the MILL (plant) that made the extrude. Corn content in an extrude is different from that in a textured...

Next up: Gypsy Moon Witchcraft, bred to Buttin'Heads Epiphus 1st possible 7/16, saw bred for 7/31 Helmstead Minis Sarah Lee, bred to Buttin'Heads Epiphus 1st possible 7/23 - never saw the deed but I think this 1st possible is right on.

:hugs It doesn't matter who you are - teat defects crop up from time to time. It just happens.

Golden Kids Flicka kidded 7/1 with twins by MCH Kids Corral LL Fire Flame VG. The buck is available for purchase =) Already he shows a lot of promise with a beautiful topline and width - and nice color to boot! Flicka has done well at the one show she's been to so far, winning 1st, 2nd and...

We don't feed corn to our bucks specifically, and a diet high in corn can lead to acidosis in does. Goat Chow actually was responsible for killing our first buck ever when we got started years ago and didn't know better...the corn and molasses took him from healthy 2 month old to dead 5 month...

She is pretty small still, I'd make sure she had another 10 lbs or so and gains some width through the hips before you breed her. You can tell she's still growing - her butt's higher than her withers. She doesn't show the maturity I'd be looking for yet. My ND does range from 40 to 50 lbs on...

That's the worst kind of teat defect...a fish teat. Do they both have orifices? I hear it's practically impossible to milk them because it goes everywhere. It's genetic. If you breed her, I'd breed her for meat (market) offspring. I personally have zero tolerance for teat defects in my...

;) I think she's Nigerian, not Pygmy...

Yellow = milk poop. When he starts eating something solid regularly, it'll turn green/brown to regular brown.

If she's maintaining good condition through her lactation, you can go ahead and breed her. It's not uncommon at all for dairy breeders to milk through pregnancy, only drying the does off about a month before they kid again. They key is good nutrition - you give them that, and they'll perform...

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I really think antibiotics at this point are premature. JMO 20 - you can really only treat bacterial scours with a sulfa drug.

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Mostly just that goats HATE baths...

;) Actually it's 14 days incubation, so as early as 2 weeks, but not before. Earlier than 2 weeks and you have a bacterial or diet scour.

You need some sort of disinfectant on your wash/wipes...to prevent things like staph.

:welcome (they're quail ;) )

:clap She looks pretty Alpine-y to me. Pretty! It's really hard to get more production out of one...but she should still give decent enough to be worth it once she udders up.

It's been so long since I dam raised, but I do remember often the kids got runny poo off and on from hormonal changes in those 1st two weeks. I will hold off judgment until you get your fecal back...but I BET he's not ill...just getting his digestive functions going. The few cases of bacterial...