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She's still hanging in there. Nibbles just enough hay to keep her functioning but only sniffs at grain. She always looks interested when I bring it. She'll stick her nose in the pan and get one or two little nuggets and spends an inordinate amount of time chewing that first little taste... then...

She's looking better still this morning. Far more alert and doesn't seem to be focused inward. She drank about a gallon of plain water through the night and she's actually letting the kids nurse regularly today. She still won't do more than taste a kernel or two of grain but she has eaten a...

Thanks guys, she's hanging in there tonight. She finally let the kids nurse this afternoon. She finally got a decent drink too. If I had a decent goat vet, I wouldn't be asking you all for advice. In my experience though, the vets round here don't think of these goats as pets or valuable...

Ugh... I have sick goat. She's a 2 yr old Boer/Savanna doe with 33 day old twins. These are her first kids. All has been well until day before yesterday when I noticed she seemed a little off. Just not as active as normal. She still came for dinner with the herd and ate her grain but didn't seem...

If anyone is swapping meat around here, I haven't heard about it. But that's an interesting idea. I do have a few folks I trade services with though. My sister has dairy goats and she and I help each other out with things like disbudding, castrating, tattooing, kid watch, etc. Another neighbor...

Well... I've about decided that if someone wants him, they'll have to make it worth my while. His two half sisters are priced at $225 because of their breeding. He's at least half that with the breeding, but he's growing bigger, faster. So even as a meat goat he's worth something. I wouldn't...

I guess my question of whether it'd be worth my while pertains more to price. Do pack goats command a higher price than a meat goat where you're selling by the pound... or a pet, which is only worth what someone is willing to pay? I mean... let's say I sell him for meat at $200... but someone...

Happy to see a thread about pack goats here. I had six kids over the last month and one of them has really caught my eye as a potential packer! Packing is not something I have ANY experience with or prior knowledge of but I've been reading everything I can find on the subject. I really think...

She's so pretty!

My chickens and goats live together... sort of. The chickens have their own house to sleep in, mainly because I have night time predators that will eat the chooks if they're not locked up. I feed them outside of the goat pen but they spend their days scratching through all the hay the goats...

Thank you. Guess I better get my buck moved! LOL!

Here's a question... once a doe has kidded, how soon can she be expected to come into season again? I mean... with horses, the mare will be ready to breed again within just a few days of giving birth. What's the standard time for does? (I ask because I DO NOT want my does bred back until this...

What a little angel. :)

Here's the one I was waiting on! She was born in the wee hours of the morning. We had a total of six kids this seaon, 2 sets of twins and 2 singles. And we only got ONE boy! I feel like I hit the jackpot. LOL!

awwww!

awww... yours has a star! So cute. I'm still waiting on my last momma for the season. She's due tomorrow but appears to be in early stages of labor now. We'll see I suppose. I've seen them act like this and then just quit in the middle of the night. They do like to tease like that, don't they?

Oh how cool!! This is my first time submitting. Thanks everyone for the kind words. :-) What fun!

Nyla and Lilly, Boar/Savanna twins.

Here's a pic of Morty and Rigby, a set of Pygmy mix twins. :-)

A successful kidding season so far. One doe to go!