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Check out this udder boom! And the mucus. She's lying down with her mother out there right now. These will be our first kids of the season. I only have 1 other doe out there that I think is pregnant and I have no idea when she's due. This is Brownie's second freshening, so she should do...

My 4-year-old Pygmy herd queen Trixie made a trip to the vet yesterday. She was standing around holding her mouth open and on the left side of her jaw she had a bulging area. She acted normal in every other way. Being a worried goat mom as soon as Bruce got home from work we loaded her up 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...

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'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...

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...

Well, the wait is on, and Nell, my LaMancha doe, is due any time now. I have no idea when she was bred, but about 36 hours ago her udder increased dramatically in size, to the point where you can now see it sticking out past her hind legs when viewing her from the side. Her sides don't...

Bottle babies can be a lot of work and the cuteness factor only goes so far after about a month of feeding and cleaning up after the precious little things. A new acquaintance of mine that raises goats says that with bottle babies he takes them and feeds them in the house and then puts them...

Sorry no pictures, but one of my first fresheners born last year had a single doeling on the 30th. She was doing fine until the next morning when going out to check on the baby found her to be on the edge of death. After checking momma found that momma had no bag at all! The baby had been...

I posted last week Trixie has a little buckling. Here's a new picture of him from today and he's 1 week old. We call him Rudy. He has a heart-shaped pink center to his nose and it reminded me of a valentine. That made us think of Rudy Valentino (yes, we are olddddddd!). So we settled on...

I had a feeling Trixie was looking pregnant here lately and last weekend she had some discharge. Today I went out to give them some alfalfa at noon and she didn't come out of the shelter at the back of the pen area to get some like she usually does. She's my herd queen now and she's always...

I have a 1-1/2-year-old LaMancha goat in milk who started with profuse diarrhea Sunday morning. On Sunday she was eating and acting normally with no other symptoms. I gave her a dose of ProBios for her weight thinking she might have something going on in her rumen. I put some baking soda in...

This is Olivia, my granddaughter. She maybe a teenager, cell phone and all, but still a country girl at heart and in love with the goats! They follow her everywhere in the pen. Nell's babies have been named, black one Pepper and brown one Brownie. They were 2 weeks old last Monday and doing...

Bruce came running in about 4 this afternoon and said Nell had kidded. She had 2 doelings, :celebratea black and white one with the floppy ears of a Nubian (from daddy) and a brown and white one with the little LaMancha ears from Nell! They both were already cleaned up and dry when we found...

Nell should be due the end of June or thereabouts. She's definitely getting larger and her cute little udder has gotten slightly larger as the days go on. She is such a sweet doe, as I hear LaManacha's can be, and my husband has taken a liking to her almost instantly. He likes the fact that...

Here are pictures of the new goat my close friend Cyndy and I went together on and purchased. This is Nel (short for Fennel, which is what the owners had named her), and she's about a year old and bred. She is a LaMancha/Nubian mix and is bred with a Nubian and is due around the end of June...

She gets bigger every day and her udder has been filling for about 10 days now. Today it looked pretty tight and she's been rubbing up on everything she can find trying to scratch it. Her ligaments have been mushy for days, but are still present. I was hoping that with the full moon last...

ET definitely is in labor, but it's very early. Tried to leave her in with the other goats, but she just wasn't getting to settle down any where and they wouldn't leave her or me alone (mostly me because I was with her). So we moved her to the kidding pen and this is the first time she has...

Bruce woke me up from a dead sleep this morning saying "I can't find the baby!" Well, I've been sick with a stomach virus for the last 4 days and haven't been moving around a whole lot, with the exception of to the bathroom and back, but with his statement I shot out of the bed at a break-neck...

Well, Trixie's udder was a lot bigger this morning than it was yesterday and in the last half an hour she has started constantly calling out. She also has a very small amount of amber colored discharge. Baby watch has officially begun..... Will let you know when something happens. Think...