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This goat is going to be the death of me! She is continuing to not stand up on her own. It takes two of us to get her up, one on front and one on back. But once she is up and steady, she goes out to graze and walks around for hours at a time. When she gets tired, she lays down and then cannot...

Well, she has improved somewhat. I gave vit B, iron, and nutridrench. Also giving her electrolyte water. She is continuing to eat hay very well. She is also drinking a lot. Yesterday, she had complete water diarrhea, today it is completely normal. So strange! She was able to get up a...

A little history- 5 yr old doe just got over a bad case of coccidia a couple weeks ago and had lost a lot of weight. She recovered and has been improving daily, and has gained a lot of weight back. Her stools were normal, FAMACHA was coming back up gradually. She was in the clear in my head...

Yes and there was none. Liver fluke treatable? how to detect?

I am basing that on vet blood and fecal tests. I rushed her in for emergency visit she spiraled so quickly. I will reworm in 10 days for sure. Odd that the buckling is in a different field with different pasture. All other bucks and bucklings are thriving. All other does and doelings are...

We have a doe that had polio two weeks before she was bred. Complete recovery and seemed healthy. We lost her 4 month old doeling just a couple weeks ago, with what was a very rapid loss of red blood cells, worms were present, but not enough of a load to warrant the depletion. She died within...

Magnum laid down and watched the goats eat this morning without ANY guidance from me and not on a leash!!! I think it’s starting to click with him, I am so overjoyed!! This gives me such confidence to know my work with him is paying off.

I just wanted to document that my sweet boy protected me yesterday...from a toad!! LOL He was on guard and stood in front of me barking and growling at it very ferociously!! So if there are any toad packs that come our way, we are safe!

We built it in Feb of this year and the vinyl is still holding up well. We paid $20 for a remnant at home depot.

Welcome and you will LOVE goats. They are such fun and so loveable. We have a wood floor in our goat house and we put a piece of vinyl flooring in it to protect it. With a layer of sweetpdz(litter) and hay or wood chips to absorb, its so easy to sweep out. So there’s another idea to throw in the...

I have a FENCED pasture for Magnum to be in, his kennel is also in this fence when he needs to be alone/time out. I was only talking about the yard around our home that isn't fenced. The goats move from this pasture to a connecting bigger fenced pasture. The bigger fenced pasture is where...

I put this on Dooley's thread, but also wanted to put it here, the herding behavior you described is exactly what Magnum does with our goats. He runs up beside them with an open mouth once they move to where he wants them, he stops. So is he trying to herd them? Does this change anything...

I so enjoyed reading this!! Dooley is adorable and I'm sure you are very proud of him. I wanted to ask, the herding behavior you described is exactly what Magnum does with our goats. He runs up beside them with an open mouth once they move to where he wants them, he stops. So he is trying to...

The fencing would take a lot of time and money and something we would have to think about. Our yard isn't flat so there are hills and banks to scale and the layout wouldn't mean just a simple square fence, so it is something we will have to plan. It is my hope that when he is older he would...

@Ridgetop the yard around our home is not fenced in. We can see both pastures from our back deck. The smaller of the two is where the goat house is and where Magnum's kennel is, and I have to walk through the yard 20 yards to get to that gate. Walking through that pasture, there is a gate to...

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Thank you all, I'll stop asking for advice.

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Wow, that amazes me. I would love to use every bit of the animal for all these purposes. Lots of work yes, but what reward. Y’all are teaching me so much. I will read that post about the lard. I just made a blackberry pie this weekend and was disappointed the crust wasn’t flaky as my granny’s...

If it will keep him from gnawing on fence and me I’m all in! I had thought about making pork rinds with the skin, my hub and sons all love them but wondered how you get the hair off of it? @farmerjan it’s just like everything else that’s regulated in VA...