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There is a product marketed for babies called boogie wipes that are basically baby wipes with saline on them. They really helped when my human kids had crusty noses and I needed to gently clean them. The saline helps loosen things without being irritating. Maybe those would work?

Thanks for the advice. The kids are 8 weeks old today, and it is definitely easier right now for everyone to just be out on the pasture. I will give them a couple more weeks and then I may just start with separating the boys during the day for a few weeks to ease the transition. I would start...

I have a boer doe with triplets that just turned 7 weeks. She has two bucklings and one doeling. The bucklings are both (still) quite a bit bigger than the doeling and I've been noticing them trying to mount each other, their sister, and my other doelings who are about a month older. I know...

Update again. I weighed everyone again this morning and buck #2 has gained 1.8 pounds since Friday. That is the same as the other two kids gains combined. I guess whatever the issue was, he's got it figured out. Thank goodness! Mama and babies have been in one of the stalls in the barn...

Well, after the first day the girl wouldn't take the bottle either. Mom seems to be doing well at making sure everyone gets a turn, she actually has two functional teats on one half of her udder, like P4 on the ABGA chart and sometimes I see all three nursing at once. I weighed them today to...

I suspected she would have trips and my other doe had issues with engorgement/kids only nursing one side the first week, so I froze everything I milked out of her just in case. I offered the bottle this morning thinking it would be a good idea to introduce it from the start and the doeling took...

Yes, the boys were pretty much the same weights as what my doe who had twins had this year - I was a little surprised they weren't all smaller since there were 3. Oh my, I don't know what I'd do with Nigis!

I just went out and weighed them. Buck #1 8.8 lbs, Doe 6.8 lbs, Buck #2 9.6 lbs. I knew the poor girl was carrying a load!

After watching her just stand there for a while I decided I needed to assist so I got my husband to come and hold her. She had trips, buck, doe, buck. All were correctly presented, but kid #2's sack was trying to come out with kid #1. I ended up assisting with them all. The doe is tiny...

I forgot to answer about deficiencies. I don't suspect any, but I'm not sure what to look for. The goats are on pasture that also has a wooded area for browse and they have loose minerals. They also get a small amount of pelleted goat feed once a day.

Honestly she's acting pretty casual. There really hasn't been much activity with her labor which is what was concerning me. I noticed the first long string of amber discharge probably 8 or 9 hours ago, and it has continued since then but I didn't notice many contractions at all until after I...

I have a boer doe in labor. I think today is day 153. She has had the long amber discharge since 3:00 or so this afternoon. She had separated herself from the herd, bag is full, ligs gone, so I put her in a smaller enclosure with a kidding stall. She doesn't seem to be actively doing much at...

Thanks for your reply. I am thinking that since a lot of people feed horse feed to goats their needs are probably somewhat similar. I think I'll just go ahead and get a horse block for the horse area. I have tried top dressing the goat's feed and they would leave the minerals. The goat's...

I have a herd of 5 boer nannies on about 5 acres and am needing to bring 2 miniature horses to the property. They will share the same pasture but I have separate shelters that have smaller pens around them so that I can keep them separated for short periods of time if necessary. I plan to feed...

I'm so happy to hear this! What an awesome mama she is!