rasheika
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new goat owners here-just got 2 Nigerian Dwarfs. Looking forward to learning lots from y'all!
Greetings from Central Texas
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norseofcourse
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Welcome from Ohio, and congrats on your new goats!
DutchBunny03
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Welcome from NY!!! We'd love to see pictures of your goats, and feel free to ask questions to all the goat people!
Greetings and welcome to BYH from another Texan, but out east. We have a pretty decent TX contingent here and it keeps growing... always a good thing! Make yourself at home and browse around. jump in when you feel ready. Grats on your new little goats.
animalmom
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Yip Yip Yip some one from Central TX! A big howdy and welcome from North Central Texas, where as you know, the stars at night are big and bright!
Where are you located? We've got a bunch of folks out on the Eastern flank, and a few right nice folks down in the Houston area. A couple new folks are around San Antonio.
Glad to have you here, ticked pink you found us! We love, adore, live by pictures so feel free to start a journal and put up tons of pictures for us addicts. Mega thanks!
Where are you located? We've got a bunch of folks out on the Eastern flank, and a few right nice folks down in the Houston area. A couple new folks are around San Antonio.
Glad to have you here, ticked pink you found us! We love, adore, live by pictures so feel free to start a journal and put up tons of pictures for us addicts. Mega thanks!
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rasheika
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Yay, thanks for the welcome. I am west of Austin, in the beautiful hill country. Having lots of fun with our goats so far. Can y'all recommend any kind of situations to chain or rope them so I can get them into some different fields to graze until fencing is complete. I just want to be able to move them around. I would never leave them unattended. My 12-year-old also wanted to be able to walk them around on a leash. I have a breakaway collar, but they just break away from it immediately 
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rasheika
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animalmom
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We use a plastic chain that breaks with a sudden "panic" pull. It is substantial enough to confidently lead the goats (we have Nigerian Dwarfs).
http://www.caprinesupply.com/plastic-chain-collars.html is a good place to start. They also have a package where you can get 30 feet, all the same color, for a good price. I buy it that way and also get a bunch of extra connecting links. When my goaties break a collar I use one of the extra connecting links to put it back together rather than cut off a new collar.
The website says not to use this collar if you are going to tie your goat out... but I can tell you from my experience the collars are strong enough to lead the most determined not to be led goat.
Hope that helps.
http://www.caprinesupply.com/plastic-chain-collars.html is a good place to start. They also have a package where you can get 30 feet, all the same color, for a good price. I buy it that way and also get a bunch of extra connecting links. When my goaties break a collar I use one of the extra connecting links to put it back together rather than cut off a new collar.
The website says not to use this collar if you are going to tie your goat out... but I can tell you from my experience the collars are strong enough to lead the most determined not to be led goat.
Hope that helps.
Pastor Dave
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Welcome from Indiana! I don't have goats or walk my rabbits, but glad you're here too. Enjoy the folks and all the content.
LMK17
Loving the herd life
Welcome from San Antonio!
