What we do as goat breeders....

There is an ad on my local craigslist, offering goat stud service (driveway breedings only...).

Apparently their only criterion is that the doe 'must be healthy looking'.

I wonder who is taking the bigger chance, the owners of the bucks or the owners of the does? Either way, not sure it's a risk I'd want to take. Although I know many breed this way rather than keep a buck, and I'm guessing it does usually work out alright.

norseofcourse said:

There is an ad on my local craigslist, offering goat stud service (driveway breedings only...).

Apparently their only criterion is that the doe 'must be healthy looking'.

I wonder who is taking the bigger chance, the owners of the bucks or the owners of the does? Either way, not sure it's a risk I'd want to take. Although I know many breed this way rather than keep a buck, and I'm guessing it does usually work out alright.

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healthy looking Just WOW!

Glad my goats can't read I don't want them knowing that there are goats out there like that!

maybe an on-line dating service...

saw an ad for this on CL advertising it for goats...does this even work? Figure the cattle panels or similar would be a better choice.

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"Driveway breeding" is generally a term used. Some maybe mean that literally but more often than not there is a small pen where the doe and buck are put together for their 15 seconds of "love"
But yes, some people keep them on a lead and bring the buck on a lead. Nigie and mini bucks are one thing, I cannot imagine a 200 lb buck on a lead trying to mate. I know often our goats do this whole courting, dancing, and romancing before they get around to it.
A few times our does have been like "uh... yeah, I'm standing- get on with it" and the buck is still trying to woo her. Goats

So a friend who also has goats asked me why we are feeding whole milk to our 5 week old baby ND instead of the goat kid milk replacer...they use it and feel that the goats do better on it then whole milk.

I think the answer to that is simply what has worked for the individual person. IMO sheep need replacer.
We don't have much experience with it but I can share our experiences.

We got a 2 day old buckling and bottle fed him whole milk, that was after asking MANY people beforehand. LOL We had a little bit of goat milk but not enough to spare. He did great and gained like crazy. We never had any scour, soft poo, nothing.

This year our Kiko doe got bluebag mastitis days after giving birth. Sad! We had her euthanized. We started out with replacer our vet had given us (our vet is very generous) we kept them on this for awhile... they always stayed skinny and were not growing well. We SHOULD have switched them MUCH sooner than we did but after we switched them to whole cow's milk they grew and gained great. No poo issues at all. Pood less on replacer more on whole milk...
They didn't seem to like the replacer that much either because RARELY would they finish a bottle, and that is highly unusual for a bottle baby as they scream for more no matter how full they are.
The two were definitely a little stunted and they are still small for Kiko's. I do think they will mature and catch up. Their weights are great now but they are really short! LOL almost "mini" Kiko's

Not much to go on... but those are our 2 experiences.

that's make sense...everyone has to do what works for them!

okay for those of you who also have chickens, would it be possible to post pictures of how you keep the chicken feed safe from the goats.

Also do you have problems with the goats eating the chicken poop?

I had the door closed.. my goats would be having a fit if they heard that last line!
We use to have a rail up high where the chickens fly up on the rail and eat out of a long feeder rail out of goats reach... of course that was Nigie reach... Standard goats required us to change it up...
We have a long rail behind a section of hotwire in the woods... chickens can go under the wire and get to the section that has the feed rail ...goats cannot.
We tried hog panels etc. we had 40 -45 lb goats fitting through the 6 inch squares... Still cannot believe they can squish through but in a goats mind they can do anything, for the potential to kill themselves, for chicken feed.

I'd love to hear what others do too!