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I let Lily's previous owners know about her worm status, in case they wanted to worm their goats. They told me she'd been wormed with Cydectin oral sheep drench on the 4th of july. Can I give her another dose of that, or is it too soon?

@Fullhousefarm @Green Acres Farm etc Myrtle was wormed last week, with safeguard, so I shouldn't need to worry for another week or so? Either way, I'll dose her and do a fecal run then. Lily is only 5 months, could she actually be pregnant? I think I'm starting to see what 'skinny' looks like...

Fecal test showed barberpole worms. I'm on day 4 of worming them with safeguard. The package says it takes care of this type, but I'm just doublechecking that it does. Also, Lily has barberpole worms as well. I am not able to handle her yet-I touched her today! Do you have any suggestions on how...

What's funny is that I put a kiddie pool in their enclosure yesterday, and the kids were sleeping in it when I got back with myrtle. Rain is awful! Goats melt! Except... if it's hot. Then goats melt in other ways? LOL :rolleyes:

So it started raining here- The goats are screaming at me like it's my fault. :rolleyes: Apparently in the face of their arch nemesis, the rain, all unfamiliarities and disagreements are being forgotten. Myrtle is letting the kids in the shed and giving me the stink eye. Clearly this is my...

When I'm ready for it, can I post pictures here and get opinions and have you tell me what to look for? This sounds like something I'd need some experience to see

I saw their opinions on homeopathic care, so I was taking the information with a grain of salt, thank you. If all of you tend to agree on a subject, I feel pretty confident that it's probably right.

thanks!

That would be ideal. I will be building another pen, however, in case I need to separate for kidding or something. My vet that gave me Myrtle is only about 15 minutes from me, and was in the process of changing his intact buck, so maybe next year I can get that buck to cover her. (He's adorable-...

Yes, the people here have been amazing! I'm very, very thankful for the information and help (someone even offered me vet info!) I had no idea that goats were the first domesticated animal- I thought dogs were! My girlfriend is lactose intolerant, so all in all this has been very beneficial.

Well, she came from a herd that ran bucks with does, lily did too. Could she be pregnant now? It took me forever to figure out why I had never smelled goat before I took home these two, and then suddenly my backyard smells like them, it's the buck scent! But if I had to admit it- it doesn't bug...

I'll have to build a pen. I could tie up petunia, though. She's docile enough to just stand there if I'm there, mostly. I don't think I could get close enough to the other two to collar them, though. I see all these people who have collars on their goats all the time, but I'd be afraid they'd...

Oh darn, guess I'll hold off on the steak dinner for em :D And yes, that's the window! She did it in one leap... "nothing but net" and landed graceful as can be. It was crazy. I've been sitting out there. Lily is starting to warm up to me, she's willing to eat from a bowl I hold, but not my...

So we have a new goat, I'm pleased to introduce Crape Myrtle (are you guys sensing a pattern to these names? :gig) She's a nigerian-pygmy cross, that might have some other mutt genes in there. I'm not too concerned with genetics and show goats, obviously. You don't look a gift horse... goat...

Her ears are hilarious, too. They move about when you talk to her, or when she complains. All in all I'm enjoying her.

Mom was all white and curly. Looks a lot like this, without the curly horns: Lily has the curly hair at the back of her legs, not sure if you can see that. She also has brown spots as like opposite knee pads. The dad was quite clearly a miniature goat of some sort. Very stocky.

My bad, I'm bad with names. It was fullhousefarms

Because I thought that Petunia was an emergency case, and lily could wait. The price difference was significant- the mail in one is only 5 dollars.

So the people called her a Kinder goat, but said she was an alpine x pigmy. I saw the parents, I'm fairly certain her mom isn't a boer- don't they have red heads? She was all white.

Thanks, this makes me feel better.