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Just letting yall know she passed it on her own. She had a kinda rough delivery so she was exhausted. The first kid presented only a front hoof. The other hoof and head were turned backward so I had to help her deliver it. She is back to herself today. No, we are not keeping them. We have...

Thanks everyone. I would share the pink dust if I could. My buck got a treat for all that pink. :) You can click on the pics to make them bigger.

Our first kids of the year are here! Licorice gave us triplet doelings. They are all healthy and bouncing around. I am a little concerned because her afterbirth has been hanging out of her for over 6 hours. I know I'm not supposed to pull it out but is there anything I should be...

You would have to check your local codes. We called codes over here and after being redirected 5 times we finally got answers from animal control. They are the ones that enforce any animal-related problems so they knew all the rules. We had to have over 2 acres to have animals with hooves and...

She will have a stanchion by the time we go out there. I told her she needs some trimmers, blood stop, and hoof-rot treatment and that we will teach her on the does and she will have to trim the bucks. :) I had a really good mentor who taught me how to trim hooves and I really feel bad for the...

I got an e-mail from a lady saying she has had her goats for about a year and recently learned she has to trim their hooves. She said she tried to get the horse farrier (I think that is what she said. I don't know much about horses) to do it but he wouldn't. I agreed to try and teach her...

Our four does (Nigerians) are in a 8X12 split in half. (So two goats in each 8X6 section). It is easily manageable as long as they have a nice sized "run" to go outside. We don't get snow over here so I'm not sure how it would work as winter housing. Also, I have a sleeping bench the whole way...

They are cuties!

Congrats! Can't wait for pics.

Is Sodium chloride fluid the same as lactated ringers? Just wondering because that is what our vet had our goats on when then got azalea poisoning. It was to keep them hydrated.

No we didn't have her tested yet. She is not showing any symptoms, my son did not have it, and we are going to pasteurize her milk until spring when we will have our annual blood work done on all of our goats. They ruled it out as an option for my son but after being in the hospital with my 3...

I don't remember the medical term. It was something the doctors tested for at the hospital. They called it milk fever. It it caused by a bacteria in raw milk that can be passed on to humans. It scared us that we had not tested for it before drinking her raw milk. Looked it up. Its called...

We've been pasteurizing our milk. We've drank it both raw and pasteurized and don't notice a difference in flavor. I didn't notice a difference in how long it lasted either way. We tested our goats for CAE and CL. When we decided to just drink it raw and not pasteurize it our 3 yr old...

She used to eat them just fine. Our feed store started carrying a new brand and since then she refuses to eat them. She still gives lots of milk on only grain and bermuda hay but she will milk to skin and bones very easily. She really puts everything into her milk and I just wanted something...

I have one very picky goat that refuses to eat alfalfa pellets (she literally spits them out of her bowl and only eats the grain) and I'm having a hard time finding alfalfa hay. I found an add for peanut hay and they said it was comparable to alfalfa. Does anyone have experience with it? If...

Thanks for the comments everyone. We will be looking for a new hay guy next time. I was just really looking forward to having another goat-related contact. It made such a huge difference when we finally found a vet that worked out and we have a good working relationship with. I was really...

I haven't successfully weaned our doeling yet but I can tell you what I've tried. I had our doeling separated from her mom for 2 months. We have 4 does so we just put her in an adjacent pen with one of the Junior does for company. We were milking her dam the whole time so she is still very...

I doubt my husband would do business with him again. He feels like if the guy actually didn't get the money he would have made a bigger effort to collect (go look again after talking to my husband or try to find something they would agree on). There were only a few people selling hay nearby...

My husband thinks the hay guy was "testing the waters" to see if we will pay double. The guy said no one else picked up hay today. He didn't seem very interested in looking again for the money and got pretty upset saying he always gets ripped off when my husband started describing where he put...

This is our second year owning goats. We have been buying hay a few bales at a time from the feed store because we didn't really have anywhere to store large quantities of hay. It was getting really expensive really quickly. So my hubby built a storage shed for hay and feed. We found a local...