Moving goats to Kentucky

[cmjust0]

Kentucky parasites may be worse (due to milder climate) than your goats are used to...I'd be diligent in checking their worm loads.

First thing we'll be doing once we settle in is to order new hens. I've had as many as 2 dozen hens that clean up behind the goats so to speak. I've always given them routine worming medicine. There are also a few natural killers of parasites that i use, but the hens seem to do the best at eating the parasites.

Kentucky doesn't have a goat parasite problem...indeed, Kentucky has some of the finest goat parasites in the world!

Seriously...I'm not going to get into the debate over natural vs. chemical wormers or whatever, but I don't know anybody personally who would dare try to raise goats in Kentucky on natural wormers alone.. In fact, most folks I know have a hard enough time keeping parasites at bay using lots and lots of some of the spendiest chemical anthelmintics modern science has to offer.

Safe Guard doesn't really work at all.. Ivomec works better than Safe Guard, but there's a fair amount of resistance to it, too.. I know people who lost goats this year to parasites even after being dosed orally with pour-on Cydectin numerous times.

Just sayin...parasites are a constant, looming threat to Kentucky's goats, so be prepared. Forewarned is forearmed.

 

[Bonnie_Brook_Mom]

OK You guys are scaring me! We'll just have to sneak them in at the border, and take our chances till we get there, then worry about complying with local laws then. I haven't been able to find a goat vet up here in NH. I'm sure there is probably more available in KY than NH. You've all given us very useful information. All Rasta goat has is a herd tag from somewhere in Massachusetts, & his son got nothing! For all who inquired we just came back from a scouting mission in Kentucky & have bought a 4 acre plot of land that was subdivided from a former farm in Lincoln county, near Stanford! Yeah!!! No all we need is a house to put on it! LOL we'll have a goat shack built before WE ever have a house. We just had our first snow yesterday, I am so looking forward to leaving that behind! & to all you (soon to be) fellow Kentuckians, thank you for the warm (key word there) welcome!

 

[FarmerChick]

Congrats on the land!!

Are you building or maybe buying a pre-fab modular home?

 

[FarmerMack]

Congrats on the land!!

Are you building or maybe buying a pre-fab modular home?

We are thinking of putting a prefab modular home on it. There seems to be 3 companies in the Stanford area that manufacture them.

 

[cmjust0]

For all who inquired we just came back from a scouting mission in Kentucky & have bought a 4 acre plot of land that was subdivided from a former farm in Lincoln county, near Stanford!

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to all you (soon to be) fellow Kentuckians, thank you for the warm (key word there) welcome!

Not to burst your bubble, but there was about 1/2in of snow on the ground when I left this morning and Friday night's low at my house was about 17 degrees.

The old, oft heard saying around here is.....if you don't like the weather in Kentucky, wait about 10 minutes and it'll change.

Stanford...if you guys enjoy fishing and boating, there's a new lake down there called Cedar Lake. It's small, with the focus being on fishing instead of watersports. I haven't been there, but a buddy of mine said it was really, really nice. They're pulling some monster largemouth out of there already and it's only been in commission for a few years.

 

[FarmerMack]

For all who inquired we just came back from a scouting mission in Kentucky & have bought a 4 acre plot of land that was subdivided from a former farm in Lincoln county, near Stanford!

...

to all you (soon to be) fellow Kentuckians, thank you for the warm (key word there) welcome!

Not to burst your bubble, but there was about 1/2in of snow on the ground when I left this morning and Friday night's low at my house was about 17 degrees.

The old, oft heard saying around here is.....if you don't like the weather in Kentucky, wait about 10 minutes and it'll change.

Stanford...if you guys enjoy fishing and boating, there's a new lake down there called Cedar Lake. It's small, with the focus being on fishing instead of watersports. I haven't been there, but a buddy of mine said it was really, really nice. They're pulling some monster largemouth out of there already and it's only been in commission for a few years.

I checked out that lake as it is at the end of the road we will be on. As for the bubble a 1/2 an inch of snow is nothing an annoyance in N.H.. The difference is a 1/2" is only the beginning of a long long winter. I spent time in the south and mid Atlantic in the Army. When your winter is just getting over the winter in N.H. will just be kicking in full force. The snow banks around my house and driveway were 20-30 feet last winter. the winter itself doesnt end until mid april if we're lucky, then it's rain rain rain, and after that black flies. Black flies unlike mosquito dont just suck blood, they take bites out of you , they are so bad the named a season for them. Summer is 2-4 weeks in late july/August, before you had back to winter again

 

[FarmerChick]

Congrats on the land!!

Are you building or maybe buying a pre-fab modular home?

We are thinking of putting a prefab modular home on it. There seems to be 3 companies in the Stanford area that manufacture them.

Pre-fabs are wonderful and right now there are deals out on homes everywhere...plus they go up in like 30 days.....haha....which is wonderful vs. waiting 6 months..LOL

Hope you find the home of your dreams. We have tons of pre-fabs around NC....Tony and I love to walk thru the homes and see what is out there. They make them so nice now!!!!

 

[FarmerChick]

OMG those little black fly no-see-ums in NH are horrifying.

Dad had to work on the porch since it rotted under the snow finally---and he had to get one of those bee hats...wtih netting. The flies will eat you alive literally....ugh...don't miss those suckers one bit!!! You almost can't leave any body part exposed, or it is lunch.

 

[cmjust0]

I checked out that lake as it is at the end of the road we will be on.

Nice!

Hey, you wanna buy a bassboat?!? I have one for sale -- cheap! Haven't had time to use it since we moved out to the farm and got GOATS.

As for the bubble a 1/2 an inch of snow is nothing an annoyance in N.H.. The difference is a 1/2" is only the beginning of a long long winter. I spent time in the south and mid Atlantic in the Army. When your winter is just getting over the winter in N.H. will just be kicking in full force. The snow banks around my house and driveway were 20-30 feet last winter. the winter itself doesnt end until mid april if we're lucky, then it's rain rain rain, and after that black flies. Black flies unlike mosquito dont just suck blood, they take bites out of you , they are so bad the named a season for them. Summer is 2-4 weeks in late july/August, before you had back to winter again

Um...you win.

Getting 1/2" is just an annoyance here, too, but I really can't remember the last time we had more than 8-10" of snow. Heck, we plant sweetcorn in early April and it's usually safe to plant tomatoes in early May.. First decent frost isn't usually until late September or the first of November. It was mid November this year, but we had too much rain during the summer...our tomatoes were DEAD by August, before they ever really started coming on nicely.

Usually can get a pretty good garden around here, though.

 

[FarmerMack]

I checked out that lake as it is at the end of the road we will be on.

Nice!

Hey, you wanna buy a bassboat?!? I have one for sale -- cheap! Haven't had time to use it since we moved out to the farm and got GOATS.

i will be looking when i get there, selling my jon boat and motor here