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Listen to what is being said!!! Also find your local dairy goat club, attend meetings!!! Smoky Mountain Dairy Goat Association was a life saver my first many years of goatkeeping. Join ADGA and check out membership directory to find breeders. Even if you never plan to show, a goat with correct...

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,I used mineral mix for momma cows and herd included calves, bull, older steers. You can go look it up on Tennessee Farmers Coop, item number 678. Never had any problems in 30 years of keeping cows..

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Some breeds of sheep are good at eating browse and some are not.

How are goats today?

Teeth will tell. Google how to tell age of goat by their teeth. I also think by horn size they are most likely 2017 kids.

It is a low dose for the ammonium chloride and it does not taste good. Do you have a loose mineral mix for them?

How about a LGD?

If still passing urine it could be where he passed a small stone. As sbc asks...how is he acting? Vitals? If feeding grain, does it have ammonium chloride in it? What kind of hay?

If you can get banamine from vet that would help with pain. B vitamins help with stress and you can get them over the counter at most feed stores. If goat older than 6 weeks you give under the skin, sub Q. Sometimes dog attack hard to determine damage. Often dog does not break the skin but...

Did the vet take temp? Listen to gut? Listen to lungs? Although the B12 was ok, a better vet would have picked up on something wrong (as you correctly!) I would get another vet!!!! Goat whisperer is right, never waste a dead goat. Necropsy can be hard to watch first time, but you learn an...

Genetics as well as management plays a role in temperament! Katharine rams do seem to be much less human aggressive than wooly breeds. I think the fellow who created the breed culled hard to get more docile rams.

Ten year old chicken?? Wow! That says so much about how well they are cared for!!!

It happens to the best of us. Used to hate it when calves born now. Had to really watch them close and make sure they got sprayed on rear and navel with fly spray. I docked my Katahdins and usually had no problems once spring grass flushed and green grass poops gone. But, even then still...

Baking powder will cause bloat. It reacts with acid to make carbon dioxide which gives baked goods light, airy texture. Baking soda, sodium bicarbonate can aid with relief of rumen acidosis if goat over eats grain. It is not necessary unless you are pushing for milk production or weight gain...

This has happened many times to me over the years. I would keep kid separated from mom and let it nurse every 3 to 4 hours. Milk out side kid likes. Put kid on side it does not like. You still will have to milk out once a day until kid can take it all. Most does figure out how to get tape...

Yes! I would avoid any form of castor bean!! Old timers grew them to have poison for moles, mice,etc. I have never planted any here, but 22 years ago when we moved they were here. One will germinate now and again and as soon as I see it I kill it.

Yes, scout our breeders now. You have to freshen a lot of young does to get a few that are show quality. So, those with very minor cosmetic flaws will make both good family milkers and bred to good buck have genetic potential to produce better than they are themselves. And, sometimes breeders...

CUTE!!! I would have escape proof penning for three new girls so they do not decide to strike out for home and see how all goes. As new to goatkeeping do you have thermometer, B vitamins, know how to give injections, etc? Moving and adding new herd members stresses everyone. Giving the...