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Hey everyone, I’m struggling to find any information on this, but I have a doe who kidded last night and delivered triplets. She had 2 healthy babies that are still doing very well and one stillbirth who appeared to be full term with no visible deformities. I stayed with them all for a few...

I didn't think that was right! We did flip him upside down had his head between our legs and holding his back legs up. We checked again when I was holding him to trim hooves. (Spoiled thing likes to be held like a baby haha) I'll see about getting him to the vet. He urinates like a boy but I...

Yup throwing it all out there from the get go! Haha. Hope everyone is well. The little goaties are doing great and they're not so little anymore! So my little fella as usual is my problem child. He's finally growing like a weed and filling out (no longer the skinny runt he was!) So we waited to...

Everything is still good. The scours are gone and they're both still playing an eating well and it seems like they're growing like weeds! Since the scours cleared i figured I would keep my initial appointment. Will definitely let you guys know the results!

Will definitely do that. That's why I sat there watching him so long! He'd poop constantly all day long until I needed him too. :rolleyes:

Hallelujah we have solid little pellets! You know I never thought I'd be sitting outside for half an hour watching a goat poop. Seems like the scours are gone for now. I reckon he just stressed out by not being so close to Mama anymore. Still keeping close watch!

That's what I was thinking too. Plus taking him off his milk worries me anyway since he's already skinny.

Appointment isn't until Monday but I'm probably going to just bring him in tomorrow. That came from "Storeys guide to raising dairy goats" said it was a remedy from a vet. It's something like 1 cup of buttermilk + 1 raw egg + 1 tsp cocoa and 1/4 tsp baking soda. Said to stop milk all together...

First off I wanna say I'm going to worry myself into an early grave with these two babies. Seems like there's so much that can go bad quick! I moved them out to their permanent lot this weekend and now I'm wishing they were still in my garage where I could watch them closer again lol. But now...

As for the heart check, and this is just an interest question, do baby goats have similar heart sounds if they have murmurs as humans?

You still can't see them even poking out of the skin. I can only feel them and she has the swirls of hair. They're maybe 1/4 inch long from what I can feel. Mama was polled so you're probably right they were probably so small she thought she was polled. Still worried a little about them being so...

No kids but I do have an in your face and anything livings face dog and I have chickens. So the duck story definitely sways me towards getting her disbudded. My only wish was that the breeder did it when she was a few days old rather than me having to do it now that she's 6 weeks old. But I...

and I'll be all for disbudding one minute and all for horns the next. The crunchy/naturalist side of me says they're supposed to have horns and if they were born with them blah blah blah then my "I want prize winning adga/ndga/jklmnop goats and they say dairy goats have no horns" kicks in and...

I'm not sure how well versed the vets are where I'm going but they're large animal vets. I haven't been there yet but they have 3 vets and looks like it's a big place. There's a livestock auction in Shelby where this vet is and there's usually a lot of goats there so hopefully these guys will be...

Hopefully we're still in the disbudding stage of growth and not dehorning. They just got their initial CD/T Saturday and mom had hers while she was preggo.

Good to know guys! So just a routine exam, fecals and getting little man wethered and little doe disbudded maybe I'm still on the fence about disbudding but I'll see what the vet says. Other than that should be all I need until their 1 year checkup?

Hey guys it's me again! So my babies are going for their first checkup this week as well as their first fecals. My question is what all do I need to ask my vet and what other kind of testing do I need to have performed? Do I need to have them tested for Johnes and CAE at this time? Also what...

Well that makes me feel better. I have definitely learned that goats are tougher than we think! They didn't even flinch when they got their cdt the other day.

Maybe terrifying wasn't the word. I guess they just don't look natural and knowing my luck I'll have them growing towards her little skill lol. I also imagine though just like people medicine when you lookup information of course you only find the worst of the worst cases documented and being in...

Thats another thing scurs sound terrifying.