Getting 2 Kids

[bethh]

Your biggest concern will be ventilation. There is no ventilation here unless there is a window or something on the side.
You could remove the doors and make new ones using hardware cloth (1/2 heavy duty chicken wire) or 2x4 fencing to close them in at night.

Thats a great idea. We could do the same and just do windows for cross ventilation.

 

[OneFineAcre]

2 week old kids in Georgia in April shouldn't need a heat lamp

 

[Southern by choice]

Yeah at this point the temps should be well above freezing... you probably won't need heat.

 

[bethh]

An adult is available in milk. Would this be a good addition to the 2 kids or just start with the 2 kids?

 

[Southern by choice]

is it their dam?

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Congrats on the cuties! Definitely make sure you are comfortable giving a bottle before they come home. I agree with the other advice posted.

Goat math...we started with Boers, switched to dairy. Bought 6 knowing we planned on milking. We are up to 25 with one doe bred for June and our name out for several more to add yet this years.

 

[Daxigait]

They are just a couple of days old. We are getting them from Double Durango. She takes them and starts them immediately on the bottle. She’s already sent me care instructions. I’m going to go out one day and get a towel that has their scent on it so Gracie and Chewy can get used to their smell.

Do you use Corrid for coccidia in goats? I have it for my chickens. Would a large dog crate be good for them to sleep in? We have a shed for them.

I have been told not to use Corrid. It can lead to goat polio. Dimexoth is ok . Make sure you keep the antitoxin on hand in the first couple of months.

 

[Daxigait]

Good luck with the cuties.
I use heated barrels.
Built with a barrel, box, ceramic fixture, the clamp that goes in the punch out, and an extension cord one end cut to hardwire. Then a 125w bulb. I also strap the barrels to the wall.


If you get the barrels with a removable lid and the lock, you can remove the lid and store it away and just leave the Barrel in the barn or whatever that way you don't have as much to store or worry about when you don't need it that critters could get.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

We haven’t strapped ours to the wall thus far but we’ve also only kidded Nigerians up to this point. Definitely something to keep in mind!

 

[bethh]

Today’s the day. Heading to p

is it their dam?

No she isn’t. After talking to the breeder, we decided not to. If it would have made it easier on the kids, we would have but it didn’t sound like it would plus she advised housing them separately. So it’s just the two babies for now.