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Alfalfa is so expensive and someone on Craigslist has posted pasture grass with alfalfa and wheat grass bales for sale . Would either of these be OK to feed my goats?

Can't wait to see what she has!

Their purebred mini lamanchas. She appears to have blue eyes but I'm not sure if they'll change or not. Yeah three girl! But that's also bad because I'm already devising how I can get DH to let me keep one (or two) but then we'd have to get another buck... I can see how having goats could...

these were from the day after they were born These pictures are from yesterday. They grow so fast.

I think you'll know within a few weeks if you're going to get scurs. BTW, love your babies, I just love lamanchas!

So sad that your goat died :hugs She is doing much better and now able to support herself on her legs. I have been bottle feeding her every couple hours but did see her find a teat and nurse herself this afternoon. So hopefully I won't have a bottle baby! Not that I don't enjoy feeding the...

We also paid someone to do the first disbudding to get a good idea of how it's done and then tried it ourselves. I agree with Chirpy, you're much more likely to not burn enough than to burn too much. We were so worried about hurting our first little goat that we didn't burn enough/get a good...

She's doing much better this morning. One of her back legs is bowing, weak ligaments I think, and making it difficult for her to stand and walk so I did syringe some more colostrum into her this morning. She seems like she wants to nurse but will only half heartedly search for the teat and...

I know it's best to wait on banding until they are a little older to let their urethras to grow, I wouldn't do it at two weeks old. And as far as dis-budding, you need to do that ASAP or it's going to be too late, it should really be done (especially on boys) as soon as you can feel the horn...

Thanks, I love them too! :love I'm so glad the little doeling made it, she was not in good shape when we found her. She spent the rest of the night with Cupcake(mom) but is having some difficulty standing, her back leg ligaments are weak, and I haven't seen her nurse. She seems like she's...

And all with gopher ears!! :love This little girl became chilled. We missed the birth and I think in the fray she got left out in the cold by mom. We spent a few hours tonight in the house warming and feeding her and hopefully she will be fine. This was her enjoying the dog bed in the...

Yeah, I was worried about rejection too but when I took her out to mom Cupcake was so happy to see her that she began vigorously licking her all over. Cupcake is an excellent mom, she had quads last year and nursed them all without any problems. I could not however get the baby to nurse...

This is how we found her A much improved little girl

Thanks, I really thought she wasn't going to make it, she was completely listless and head tucked to her left side. After about two hours of warming her in the house she perked up . I tube fed her 1&1/2 oz of colostrum and kept her inside for about another hour until she was standing and...

I wasn't there for the birth and found her outside where mom had dropped her, she was partially dry but cold and listless. She will cry occasionally but then her head will droop and she makes no attempt to try and get up. Her two sisters are well and nursing on mom . We have warmed her up and...

Thanks for all the great pictures, looking forward to seeing the babies!

Just wanted to follow up and say that Kalua's teat did stop weeping after about two months. It never did cause her to get an infection.

Yeah, that little rubber band stretcher was a joke next to those big suckers. There was no getting even one through at a time. But we did try :lol: Ended up using the burdizzo and only time will tell if it worked. My DH and our neighbor did it for me, bless his heart, so I didn't have to...

Thank you, that sounds exactly like what is going on. She was born here on our little farm, so I know nothing was ever done to her teats.

Thanks DonnaBelle I am concerned about getting the band over them, and also concerned about this being even more traumatic since they are 17 weeks old. I do have a burdizzo that I purchased a while back after reading on fias Co farm, but then after reading on here it seems banding is the way...