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Wow, those are some beautiful kids! I don't have any blind goats, but I have a blind house cat. Just keep things on a regular schedule, don't move furniture (or anything around in the stall in this case) and she will be fine! Blind pets or livestock are really adaptable to their environment...

I just nailed a bunch of cheap muslin fabric at JoAnn's recently when they had a sale. We use it for straining our milk, so I serged up a bunch for that, but also have enough left over for cheese or other projects.

For hand milking our little nigerian dwarf does, we use stainless steel dog bowls. Real cheap at the local grocery store.

Adorable! Would have loved to see a photo! I never have my camera with me at the appropriate times.. :(

Our bottle kids are about two weeks old and are now nibbling on alfalfa hay. We don't offer grain to our kids at all, as they're plenty fat with just the alfalfa. Our does get introduced to grain on the milk stand (slowly), but that's it.

So very sorry that happened. Glad the doeling is OK though.

I have a friend who raises chicks in her bathtub each spring. She doesn't see a problem with that and neither do I! :) You can't just own three ND's, that just won't work. You'll only make the rest of us addicts feel bad. Aim for at least ten or fifteen, with at least three cross out bucks...

I can't pull up the photos, but I'm impressed if someone has actually got around to spring cleaning goat pens already! We've still got enough snow on the ground that our pens are knee deep in alfalfa stem just to keep them up where it's dry. Not looking forward to digging it out, which will...

Our goats aren't on our back acreage where the irrigation ditches are (one across the middle of the acreage and one along the edge of the property), but we have a drainage culvert across that's covered with dirt. It'd be easy to fence the entire ditch system and then allow access across the...

Perfect timing for this conversation. DH just approached a stranger walking the easement area beside our property late this afternoon. He's leasing the back pasture and will be putting cows on it soon. Our back pasture is fenced in, but a couple of years ago when we moved here there were...

This is all great to know. I've been looking at those in case we ever want to do a day time pasture area out back for our ND's. Couldn't do it at night as the coyotes would jump right over it. Are any of you using solar chargers, or just regular fence chargers?

We have a lot of red tailed hawks here on and around our ten acres. So we keep our chickens in a covered pen full time and don't put our ND bottle kids out in pens until they are a couple months old. I love looking out my kitchen window and seeing the RT's hunting in the back pasture and...

I don't have the patience to stand behind one of my does and wait for them to pee on a test strip. Wonder if I could talk my vet into doing it? Probably not, since he's due to draw blood and preg test a few late March. ;)

Kids here yet?!

Also, I would suggest getting to know your local breeders. We're still building our herd and retaining stock, so the few kids we have available are usually spoken for before they're born. But if I get new customers, I send them on to other friends in the area who have kids available, and vice...

Is this the first time she's had her kids pulled and bottle fed? We bottle feed all our kids and milk the does, so the does bond with us and not their kids. Even with the new does who were bred when we bought them (local herd buy out), they only cried for about 24 hours. But that herd bottle...

I'm so very sorry this happened. :( Epinephrine is definitely something we goat people need to keep on hand. Our vet uses a long acting antibiotic, which is only administered once. I can't remember the name of it right now, but perhaps someone else can chime in. It's a lot easier than...

We just did a small herd buy out, including pregnant does (one delivered two days after we got her home) and they wolfed down the alfalfa hay as soon as they got here and all set out to establish the herd pecking order with the rest of the flock. We don't grain anyone, except for the milk does...

Great looking goats Mike! We had a doeling born on Valentine's Day, so named her Valentina. :)

Poor guy, so very sorry that happened! But it was wonderful to read through all the posts and know that he is pulling through OK! And I'm VERY glad you guys got that dog and hope you find the owners soon! They need to see those photos of that poor guy.