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Hi my 6 1/2 week old mini Nubian goat hurt his leg tonight. I’m a nurse and am currently working night shift. Won’t be home until 8 in the morning. I’ve been staying with my parents(my dads sick) and so have my 2 bottle baby mini nubians. At time through the day the goats will go outside in a...

No I didn’t feed it gave it to someone with beef cows, and bought some 16% goat ration for my little guys

Hi I’m looking for some opinions and wisdom on the amount of feeding my bottle baby mini nubians boys.They were born Wednesday March 11. So they are about 2 1/2 weeks old. They were eating 8 ounces 4 times a day. Today I bumped them up to 9 ounces 4 times a day. I introduced hay 5 days ago and...

Ok thanks. Yeah the feed store gave this stuff but I’m leery of giving it

Does anybody know if. This is safe to feed to goats?

I asked for a bag of goat food at the feed store today, they asked me if they were milking goats I said no and they gave me this stuff. Once I got home and read the tag I wondered is this really goat food or cow food?

Hi guys. I’m getting a couple mini Nubian wethers bottle babies once they are born( some point this spring) and was Wanting to put together a little first aid kit before I get then. What would be some good things to have on case of emergency? Just to keep in mind I’m in Canada and unfortunately...

Sounds good!

Thanks. On the other goat forum I was on, someone assumed I should know everything about taking care of baby goats because I’m a nurse, and said they were appalled because I didn’t know about bottle feeding goats.made me feel really bad

Thanks!

Hi. I’m soon getting a couple wether mini nubians, and trying to research as much as I can before I get them. I’m a member of the sister site backyard chickens and have gotten very valuable info from that site. I was a member of another goat forum, but had to stop going on there as I was...