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She looks like a single to me. I find it strange that she would come into milk this early in the year if she wasn't bred. My Saanens come into heat in mid Aug but I hold off until Sept to breed. They will breed in Feb without using hormones. She could have come in heat anytime in August, so you...

Has Hoeggers started back up again? I know that after Anne died and the people that took over helping the family but ended up running it into the ground, the business folded. The family tried to make good on their orders, but were struggling and stopped trying to get orders filled. Haven't been...

No, she doesn't look pregnant...but at one month she wouldn't. As others said above, have the vet pull blood and test for pregnancy. If the vet doesn't test, then go to https://www.biotracking.com/ You can ship to a lab close to you or to the main lab. She would need to be 35 days pregnant for...

She can easily have a precocious udder....my Saanens with milky lines get them all the time usually after 10 mths old.

Squirt gun filled full and shot in his face. When I smacked the nose of one of my bucks (have 6 Saanens....all over 225 lbs and 36+ inches), he bowed his neck at me. When I got in his face to push him back, he reared up a couple times, but came straight down fortunately. He was taking over the...

About 18 yrs ago, while dealing with the husband's health issues, I realized that the girls weren't cycling, talked to the vet and he suggested that I give them Lutelyse...I did to 3 does. Within 48 hrs, on Thanksgiving day, two of the does passed approximately 3 mth old kids. The 3d doe passed...

Where are you located? Laura

Ridgetop, I'm confused why you tattooed RT1....your herd tattoo, along with 1, 2, 3...10, 11, 12, 100, etc when the left ear is the sequential number of birth order along with the year identifer....M (2020) 1 or 01, 2 or 02, 3 or 03, etc, L (2019) 1/01, 2/02, 3/03, etc. You can, but it just...

If you get NDs, the 16 ft cattle panels will work for them. I had one Saanen, known as "fence-jumper" clear cattle panels and all fencing until she was 2 yrs old with an udder, then she stopped. Cattle panels work for my other Saanens pens. As for a buck, you can always find someone that will...

Yes, you can get horned from a polled x polled breeding. So far, there is NOT a test to determine the polled gene. It also appears that homozygous polled, while a possibility, does not happen as eventually polled bucks and does end up with a horned kid. The numbers needed to prove homozygous in...

You don't want chickens to eat them....those "Red Wigglers" or "Compost" worms are EXPENSIVE to buy. Get a compost going and put them in there and keep adding house/table scraps (no meat) to the pile. Put chicken and goat droppings on it also. Makes wonderful compost for gardens and flower beds.

Nubian x Alpine cross is my guess. Ears indicate Nubian. Flat nose and coloring says Alpine.

With the blue eyes, I would say Nigerian or mini Saanen. Thought at first Saanen til I saw the eyes and body type. Laura

I would let the older doeling's grow out a couple inches, notch and band at the hairline. What are you going to do with the bucklings? If going in the freezer, I wouldn't mess with them. I couldn't see most of the pictures as they are blurry on my phone. If the horns are too tall, a good burn...

You can also use fine ground black pepper. Just block the eyes from getting it in them...same as you would with the blood stop. Never heard of disbudded horns getting infected....but anything is possible. Laura

I would use "Notes" in your smartphone as one of the places to write stuff down and in your house as the other. Then, every week or two, take the notes off your phone and put on your house computer. That way you are reading them again and they will still be fresh enough to add on more notes. Laura

Before dosing Toltrazaquil a 2d time, have the vet do a fecal. Toltrazaquil is a one dose medication and I have found that is all that is needed as a rule. Laura

Having raised goats for 20 years, I do have bucks. Do the bucks pay for themselves? Because there are not many Saanens, even my GCh and SGCh don't pay for themselves. What is happening is that I can sell an occasional buck to the dairies that have gone in around here. But I have to do additional...

They can also not develop an udder and come into milk until they kid. While not common, I have known it to happen. ~Laura