New baby goat! What do you think? Help with a name too!

[kimmyh]

You might want to do a preventative cocci treatment, and keep her on a good worming schedule. She is tiny, and at 8 weeks, she is in the peak age group for cocci/worm damage. She is a cutie, it is sure easy to see how she could steal your heart.

 

[JestersEye]

I could be wrong. She's 8 weeks, but she was a little smaller than the rest. I have a dog that used to be 7 pounds (I'd bet she's heavier than that now!) I estimate the dog and the goat are about the same weight, maybe the goat weights more. I'll have to check with a bathroom scale. But she is small.

The eight week old that we lost to coccidiosis came to us at only 4.9 pounds (the vet confirmed that one) and she was 8 weeks. Very tiny! It was like she had never grown since birth.

Our caramel pygmy goats, Buckwheat and Gambit, were also much tinier than either of our other goats had been at similar ages. Both BlackJack (black with white accents) and HyJinx (grey agouti with a white belly band) seemed to grow much faster. I don't really think the coloring has anything to do with size; but the darker goats had come from two different farms, while the caramels both came from the same breeder. It could simply be that the caramel herd included smaller, more juvenile-appearing animals than the other farms' pygmies.

We didn't have Buckwheat for long, but Gambit is still a bit smaller and thinner than HyJinx. It took almost two years before he gradually "grew into" his adult size. He also eats a lot slower than 'Jinx, so we often have to make sure his food isn't stolen before he finishes. Last summer (2008), he was in the 4-H Fair for the second time, and people were still pointing at him and referring to him as a "baby", when he was already a year and a half old! This year, he'd finally filled out.

 

[hoosiergal]

she is sooooo cute. my goats name is sadie mae.