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I have a goat that is an excessive cud chewer and she has been foaming at the mouth for months. I've checked her out and had her seen by a vet, and since there are no other problems, I left her untreated and stopped worrying about it even though I didn't know why it was happening. I saw this...

Who are Granite's dam and sire?

Scully's udder was dragging in preparation for a sweet doeling and buckling in June '15. Both were polled and blond and white.

Hazel's second freshening in 2015- a polled buckling with blond and white coloration like his dad. She always looks so satisfied as a mom!

The lovin' never stops-

Thanks for the various comments, the discussions were interesting but didn't end up going in the direction I was trying to explore. I looked for a way to delete the whole thread, but didn't see that option.

I had to share this ad that someone put on Facebook-

Can you believe this is all she kidded?

Any time now... Mabel likes to keep us waiting. And 45 minutes later, we have a 4 lb 5 oz, black with touches of white, buckling! A single!

The other day Scully was so enjoying being scratched, I thought I'd share this little photo essay- That is the spot!

After kidding time comes cuddle time!

Not to be outdone, Zaph kidded twin bucklings the very next day. Fox and Zorro were both around four pounds.

You can tell the goats are cold and a little miserable with waiting on the new arrivals, even in the slightly warmer temporary lodgings. This was only our second kidding and Mabel was being hard to read- ligs? no ligs? She kept us on our toes and DD ended up spending her high school winter...

Mabel's due date came and went. She knew the code by instinct and waited for the coldest weather to settle in to keep us guessing. After trying to freeze in the barn with her, we decided to make things a little warmer and a lot more convenient and moved her to the garage. She wasn't happy, of...

It was obvious that Fortunato had gotten the job done- the due date for both does was mid-February. In the meantime, another friend's buck came to visit both Hazel and Scully. Rocky Balboa was the sweetest little blond buckling.

Now it was September, we were still looking to breed our does and borrowed a young buck from OFA, Fortunato. I fell in love with Fortunato the moment I saw him! What a nice animal. He was brown all over with a blond streak down the back. It looked a little flamboyant or something, like someone...

Time went by and we tried to breed our two other does, Mabel and Zaph in the early spring. They had some visits from OFA Big Brown and all looked like it was a go. When summer rolled around, however, the signs just weren't there. No new little bouncy kids for 2014, but we enjoyed the four...

I wanted to add that the tall fencing isn't for our goats- it's to keep out the deer. We use 10' electrical conduit pounded into the ground to make 8' tall sides to attach deer fencing to. They can still jump it if they are extra motivated!