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They are 3 ish and I got them a couple years ago.

Hello 🤗 I have 2 Alpine does that I purchased a couple years ago. They have never been bred I had them running with a buck when I first got them but I think he was too small and was attached to one particular doe. Since then I have sold the buck and the doe that he was attached to and purchased...

Are your ewes ugly to your ram? I don't think so he is still young

Yes he has been in a fence and Everytime I try to let them in pasture together they run him

Hello, I just recently purchased a 1.5 -2 year old Nubian male to breed to my alpine females. They are very aggressive towards him will hang up on him head butt him in the stomach and chase him constantly hitting him. I had a smaller buck around them til last year and they were fine this buck...

I have a mini stud and I am curious about what I would get if I bred him to a full sized mare??

What What Did you get from the breeding ?? I am curious what you get from breeding a mini stud and a full sized mare

I have never heard of joint ill before he seems to be getting a little better I am not positive it's sprained just an assumption since one day he was running playing and jumping off his playhouse the next his knee was huge and hot

Hello I am concerned about my month old baby goat he hurt his knee a couple of weeks ago. It is swollen and seems to be hurting him. I have it wrapped. How long does it take for the knee to heel and what can I do for him other than keep him confined

I have a nanny that had a baby and she has not been taking care of him and will not let anyone touch her to milk. her udder got infected and now has a hole in it can I catch her and give penicillin or la 200 for this?? She doesn't like ppl or ppl to touch her

Thank you everyone for your help I am going to test om other goats for everything as well. He has been separated from the herd all together. I did not purchase him from the same ppl as i did my others so maybe this will help. It is just a hard decision to make when I am trying to get started...

I have heard that if the doe has an abscess on her udder or around the area at the time of nursing the babies can get it that way. I am still doing research on this. From what i have been told and researched the disease can only be transferred through the puss and mucus if there is an open...

Thank you for the information it is greatly appreciated and helpful. The first abscess was around the jaw line area the second was seems to be on the actual shoulder area not so much under the armpit or above it. He does not seem to be in pain or that nothing is bothering him. The vet did...

We are in the process of getting him and everything else tested. Then see if we can get shots for everything. We are new to the goat business and have had some bad luck trying to get started seems one thing after another. If he does have it what should be my next step with him. I have read where...

He had an abscess under his jaw line this summer. We immediately separated him from the rest of the goats. I took him to the vet the vet barely glanced at it said it was CL that I needed to cull him out immediately before it spread to the rest of my goats. The abscess finally burst and then I...