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Not sure if it is ok to post this here, but I thought I would give it a try as I am desperate to rehome our goat friends. Unfortunately we have some sad news. Apparently after having our little mini-farm for over a year, the county has decided that we are not 'zoned' for farm animals and has...

Unfortunately we have some sad news. Apparently after having our little mini-farm for over a year, the county has decided that we are not 'zoned' for farm animals and has ordered us to remove our goat family from our property. We are also in the midst of relocating out of state, so you can...

Well, unfortunately we lost the little doeling last night. Still not entirely sure what had happened. We are not sure if someone hit her, or if she wasn't getting enough from mom. Still strange that she was fine the day before, and yesterday morning was weak. We did everything that we could, or...

Temp is fine.. we have pulled her from mom this morning and been working on trying to get her better. Not getting any stronger yet. We milked mom and tried to give it to her, but half of it comes back out. She is getting a little bit, but not much. We are switching between milk and electrolytes...

Just took her out to mom to see if we could get her to nurse on her own, she wouldn't even try to nurse.

Her skin goes back fairly quickly. We have been giving here electrolytes, and she drank some water on her own. We have also been syringe feeding her some milk from mama. She has urinated quite a few times and has pooped a couple times so far since we have had her inside. She is still fairly weak...

Not sure how to do that.. never found anything about testing for that.. I will have to look into it and try it out

Very true :) i have been trying to figure out how much BoSe to give... I have seen everything from 1/4cc to 1cc for newborns. She is only 1 week old today, so we are nto sure. Still waiting to hear from our vet too... but she can sometimes take a little longer to get ahold of unfortunately...

Oh wow.. I didn't think they would get the same dose as the adults... isn't it 1cc per 40lbs? That is what we give the does before kidding. This little thing is so tiny... a lot smaller then her twin.

Mom had BoSe 2 weeks prior to kidding... do we need to give another to the kids themselves? If so how much and how soon should we see improvement?

We have twin nigerian dwarf goat doelings that were born last Friday 7/12. One is happy, healthy, jumping all around and playful when we let them out this morning to be with the rest of the herd. The other one was less lively. When we checked on them again, she was just laying in the middle of...

So are the pens faster and easier than the stamps?? Can someone let me know how each one works? We are new to registered goats and have some kids that are due in June/July that we will have to tattoo, so the easiest, fastest, less stressful for them is what I am hoping for!

Thank you for the replies!! After doing some research we came up with about the same thing. We have sseveral other does in the area and none of them have the issues so was not sure if it was! We will get what we need and get it taken care of!

We just noticed that one of our does has a sore on her leg. I got a picture, but it is not the best. She does rub up against an old tractor tire that we have out in the yard. She sits her butt on it and rubs back and forth... not sure if that is causing the irritation or something else?

Yeah.. we are a little disappointed, but hopefully we can still show for 4H... going to have to have a talk with her leader about it again. We have two others that are registered with ADGA and are due to kid in a couple months, so we plan on keeping some of their babies. We are also getting...