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I noticed when I was milking my doe that my hand kept getting wet with milk. I realized that she is actually leaking milk through the side of her teat, in possibly more than one place. If I squeeze the teat a drop of milk will ooze through the skin halfway up the teat. As far as I can tell it...

I have a buyer for my two 17 week old bucklings but they would like them wethered. Have I waited too long or can I still band? Also, I have read that I can give children's tylenol before. How much and in what form? And they have never had any shots, should I do CDT vaccine first? I'm very...

Aren't they great? I love my mini manchas. OK, one batch of soon to be cheese sitting in the kitchen :fl

Thank you Ohiofarmgirl, you are wonderful!

Can you please help me! I have the kit from Hoegger which comes with rennet tablets. Every recipe in her book calls for the liquid. Can anyone tell me how much of the tablet to use in how much water to replace the liquid? I have my milk and buttermilk all ready to make some chevre!

I have a lot of frozen milk. Does anyone know if I can use it to make cheese?

For the last year I've used a natural dish soap like biokleen and water for a wash and then after milking GSE and water for a dip. Have not had any problems.

Thanks, two boys and two girls and all with elf ears like their mom. I love the coloring on the fawn colored one, too bad it's a boy!

This is what we came home to today: Four babies :weee five days early! What a surprise. I noticed when I fed them this morning before I left for work that her udder was twice what it was yesterday and I thought hmmm, but she wasn't showing any other signs. I should have known it...

My doeling started to get hers at 7-8 months old. And now at 11 months old it's only gotten so far as a goatee :D , so kind of slow growing.

OK, that's definitely not what I wanted to hear. Maybe I will pay somebody to do it, I don't think I could do it to her again.

4/27, next Wednesday. I have to work that day so I'm keeping my fingers crossed she's a day or two early :fl My other mini mancha that delivered last month was three days early (ff), I was surprised.

I know, it makes me feel guilty. She enjoys being a mommy though (and all the extra grain she gets when producing milk). If she can just hang in there for one more week.

My poor Cupcake has a week to go and is as big as a house. She can hardly walk. Poor baby. She has had triplets the last two times, I'm thinking there's a good chance it may be quads this time.

This was our first time disbudding. We got a good copper ring on the blond doeling but did not burn the little buds off or do the x in the middle of the buds when we were done. When the scabs fell off it now looks like she has two little pink buds, not getting any bigger. The little doeling...

OK, here they are. This picture was taken a week ago when we had a lovely spring snow storm :rolleyes:

My doe's name is Indian Princess. Her Dam was Apache Tears and grandmother Jewel of the Desert. Any suggestions for her two doelings?

Yes, what a good doe. Mine refuse to cooperate unless they have all of their demands met :rolleyes:

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Disbudded for the first time last weekend. Not sure we were agressive enough. Got a copper ring on the buck bud did not do the figure 8 and not sure we went deep enough with the doeling (did a long time but no copper ring?) Iron was very hot. My question is, can we do it again if we notice...