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Thank you both for your comments. More hotwires will hopefully be installed this weekend to keep the other dogs at a safer and unchallenging distance.

Our dogs have settled a lot now, and have naturally taken "charge" of the acre they are in. Are no longer crazed trying to escape it and follow me back to the house. Whew. It was a loooong three days of stress. But the end of the third day they seemed so much more content. The neighbors do...

This outside electric is high on our priority list. As well as fencing the road frontage of the property with fence they can't come through. But it's over 600 feet of road frontage....so it will take a while. But running electric line at nose and ground level on the outside fencing is a must...

Can anyone give me some counsel or confirmation that we're going to be okay? We just moved from a small farm to a 40 acre farm out in the country. Just today we moved the LGD's and their goat herd to the farm. They have a 1 acre paddock, field fenced with goat fencing and electric wire along the...

Y Yes, the blind one is Clippin' and his buddy is Tumnus. They will both be wethered and kept as pets. 😊 I love the idea of the bell! Thank you!

Thank you for all of your thoughts etc. I did look into the goats of Anarchy, and it looks like they keep blind goats together, but perhaps I will ask about that. However we have a very gentle buckling here who has been making friends with him and spends time with him very willingly, almost...

During our kidding season this year one doe kidded triplets, and one was born blind. He can't mix with the other kids who are all with their moms much, and gets abused by the more aggressive/pushy kids. His mother has completely rejected him and I'm just looking for a goat kid that shares his...

Hi All, Our little blind goat is doing well but is lonely. He can't assimilate to the herd and everytime he runs into another kid he gets butted, sometimes very unkindly and repetitively, because he doesn't know that he's being rude by running into the others. Especially the ones at the top of...

Hi All, So we have been blessed with a quiet little Nigerian Dwarf buckling who is blind. His name is Little Clippin'. He is the runt of triplets, has been blind from birth, his eye is all pupil and shines blue/green when the light hits it etc. No dilation. Anyway...we live in the DFW Texas...

So...I'm wondering if he is gaining some sight or if he is just a determined little guy. He is still nursing on mama and is able to find her by smell/hearing. We've introduced a bottle, but he wants mama instead, and has even joined in butting his siblings to move them over to get his share. He...

Our mama Nigerian Dwarf Doe, Betty, kidded two nights ago. I was present for the births. (Mostly, the first one was born and I got there right after, mama already was cleaning it). One if the kids is smaller than the other two, slightly weaker and needed help latching on for colostrum in the...

So for Math, I actually love Masterbooks. I'm using/have used 5 different levels of it currently(k through 4), and my kids are grasping the concepts and doing great. I don't think it is babyish, it just isn't "public schoolish". They use a story form only in the introduction to each lesson and...

So horrible, such a tramatic thing...but yes, you made the absolute right decision. I'm sorry that you had to go through this.

Hi! I'm also a homeschooling mom and am currently teaching four grades and have a 2 year old as well. I have a fourth grader, third grader, first/second grader and a kinder. We also homestead with chickens and seven goats, two LGD's and three cats. We love this life, and it is certainly a...

We have found having a second LGD to provide dog companionship has really helped our young dogs to direct their romancing in the right direction (at least species related). The male LGD occasionally looks/licks at the does when they are in heat but directs his humping to our spayed female GP...

Also, I have seen photos of both parents and the father certainly looks Anatolian/Pyr, as he was claimed to be. I should have realized from the photos that the mother wasn't (she doesn't look it), but he assured me that she was just "red fawn", and the pup was so gorgeous I wanted to believe...

I am hoping he will continue as he seems to be now. At 20 weeks he is amazing. The goats have finally accepted him as one of themselves, and now the matriarch only has to look at him or softly bump him and he submits to her. He lays among them, lets the babies bounce and play all around him...

Yes, we do work daily on basic obedience and he is very well socialized with children and accepted friends. Thank you for that recommendation, we'll be sure to keep at it!

Thank you so much! What an exciting surprise!