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Hens and Roos, you have a terrible case of G.A.S.! But you know what, that gives you a build-in petting zoo when required! Love my goaties!

Regardless whether the baby is wethered (castrated) he counts as a hooved animal and the mom and baby together make a herd. Congratulations on your new herd! As far as milking, you only need to separate baby and momma overnight (not longer than 12 hours without milking her out) where he can't...

The vet said that with barber pole worms goats that are dry lotted are at a higher incidence of getting them, in that if the eggs show up in the nanny berries they spread from there by staying within the lot. I've always been with the understanding too that dry lotted goats are healthier and...

We just lost Pepper, a 1-year-old doe. We had called the vet out to treat her when she went down. He said that barber pole worms are epidemic this year with all the wet weather we had earlier in the spring and summer here in Texas. Your goats can look perfectly healthy, bouncy, slick coats...

Goats take a while to figure out you aren't there to hurt them. Get a chair or an upturned bucket and sit quietly somewhere in their pen really often. Daily or more would be best. You might have to do this for weeks, or in my case with my buck, it took months. Don't make any attempt to...

I'm thinking that the shaking was because they had no fuel in them, i.e., milk, and this causes them to hunch up to try and stay warm. They most likely were chilled. The fact that they took to a bottle eagerly after being fed by the mother for 2 weeks tells me that they weren't getting enough...

My Nubian/LaMancha mixed goat Pepper kidded on Wednesday. It was her first freshening and she had no problem at all having her buckling and a doeling. Pepper's closeup is first, then the doeling and then the buckling. Both babies are extremely colorful and she's a really great mother. The...

I have a friend who raises pygmies and her herd queen is about 14 years old and just delivered twins in December. As they get older they have a tendency to get thinner if still being bred. Her 14-year-old is a little on the thin side, but still very healthy. She will probably retire her now...

I'm sorry to disappoint everyone, but the camera is eating batteries so fast that I can't get a picture and try to upload it before having to replace the batteries! Blasted camera! Anyway, Brownie had 2 brown bucklings this morning. When I found them they were all dried off and with I...

It's amazing how resilient newborn baby goats are. Glad to hear they are doing okay now. It's hard to be goat grandpas and grandmas without worrying!

I went out to check on very pregnant Brownie, who this morning not only had a big change in her udder size, but also had signs of scours (all over her tail, anal area and hind legs). Her sister, Pepper also had udder change overnight and I thought that she was beginning labor this afternoon...

Aren't pygmy kids the cutest little dickens? Congratulations on your new arrivals! :celebrate

I was wondering why the colostrum this late in the game? Was that all you had to feed at the time? I wonder if it was too rich at this point for his little tummy. I would just keep an eye on the snotty nose and continue to take temps as suggested by babsbag above. Use of a bulb syringe might...

OMG, Virgil is so sweet! He seems like a real fighter there and nursing well. You are really getting some experience with having to go in and assisting with difficult births. Congrats on all the new cuties! :love:woot

Congratulations Sweetened on your husbandry skills and a great outcome from a difficult birth! Difficult births are scary as h*ll and my first 2 with my pygmies (who are notorious for difficult births) had to have assistance. I lost my herd queen and her 2 bucklings last year because she...

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I've banded all my wethers at 2 weeks with no problems. Just did a whole batch of bucklings with a friend and they were all around a month old. They've done fine. The only problem we had was with them pulling a single testicle into their groin area, simply because it was cold outside, and not...

So glad that the 2 made it and sorry for the loss of the other. You were really thinking on your feet about putting the temporarily rejected kid with the other new mother. Surprised that the first mother came back after her remaining kid, because by that time it should have smelled like the...

Just went out and fed Nell. The little dickens are all over the place this morning. Momma is going to have her hands full watching after this trio. Nell is an incredible mother and after watching the little ones for a few minutes all are finding the milk handles with little problem now. The...

Okay, I keep my promises and there are pictures of the babies and one of Nell. The black and the brown ones are the bucklings and the cream/white one is the doeling. [/ATTACH]