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How many tests do you need to determine if they're disease free, and how far apart?

Perhaps we could put the top up, please?

Forgive what is probably s silly question from a goat newbie! We have just two LaMancha does (one of whom is due on Easter, one who just had two bucklings), bought from a small untested herd. Now that we have kids, we've been thinking that we should be testing since a) they're being dam raised...

We use arnica regularly as well, which is what gave me the idea! I'd rather give something like that for an extended period of time than an NSAID or similar. We have some "quick dissolve" arnica tabs for the human kids that are taken under the tongue, and had thought that since they melt so...

Thank you! We think they're pretty handsome little ones :)

Just dairy at the moment, although we may have to make a foray into meat if our second doe gives us more bucks! We're pretty much just homesteading to try and be our own primary source of food. Getting there slowly but surely, it was pretty great to not need to buy eggs or milk at the store...

Right now, we have one each of black, Tort, and fawn does, and one black and one seal buck, plus 9 week old kits-4 black does, 1 REW doe, and a black buck. We lost our best mama a few weeks ago to what we are assuming was a broken spine-went out to the barn one morning to find her hindquarters...

Bucklings! Just 2 weeks. No goat vet locally, unfortunately.

Thanks! We're originally from NH--I went to UNH, and then we lived in Newmarket when we were first married.

We will be banding our bucks soon, and am hoping to find something to help with the initial pain/swelling. Has anyone successfully used and/or know the dosage of Arnica Montana for goat kids?

Here you go!! I am MORE than happy to share pics, most of my friends aren't really interested in seeing a dozen pictures of goats :p

It was a textbook birth! About 3 hours from when we noticed the mucous plug to the 2nd kid delivered, and both presented perfectly. They were 7.5 and 7 lbs at birth respectively, up and nursing within 15 minutes. She didn't need any assistance at all, and has been a very attentive mother...

We're very lucky, we have the last piece of the original farm from the neighborhood, still zoned ag/res so no restrictions!

Hi! We're brand new to homesteading, and recently moved to seven acres in the suburbs of Syracuse, NY. We have two does, on LaMancha and one LaMancha/Saanen cross. Our LaMancha just had 2 bucks this past week, and the other due on Easter Sunday. In addition to our goats, we have 9 French...