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Anyone feeding fodder? Do you mind sharing pictures of your set up? Thanks

It's been awhile since I've posted. I have been reluctant to start a kidding thread because I didn't think we were that close to kidding. Well, I had a doe surprise me today. Sadly, she kidded in the early morning hours and lost both kids . She is new to us this kidding season and is rather...

What is the appropriate age to sell bottle babies?

I have a strange question: is it normal for kids to have a strong smell? Oreo's kids are 9 days old and smell terrible. The don't have messy bums and they look clean, but the smell like they've rolled through really raunchy barnyard. They are on clean bedding. Is this normal?

We were given this girlie this morning. Any guesses on breed?

Well, here we go. My Nubian doe, Oreo is our first up. Last year, she delivered triplets early and we lost them all. I thought she was due to deliver between Christmas and New years, but doe code is in full effect. She passed some mucus that week and started bagging up. Now, we are three weeks...

I have an approximately year old lamancha wether. When will he reach his full size? He has never been sickly, just small. He I about the same size as my 4 month old Nubian buckling. Maybe he's a mini? I need to sell him. What would be a decent asking price?

Yesterday, our second sow, Penelope, farrowed. She had 15 piglets in just a couple of hours. 3 were DOA, 2 of them looking like they had possibly had a twin to twin transfusion problem (if such a thing exists in pigs) 1 was really small, like the size of a cube and a half of butter, and the...

I just checked on our mama pig, she is due tomorrow, I am thinking it will be any moment! She is dripping mucus, her milk line is enormous! This will be her second litter. She raised 9 of her 12 last time. 2 were stillborn, 1 got stepped on. I hope she will hold off until tomorrow though. We...

We have witnessed a miracle on our little farm the past few days. Oreo, our Nubian who lost premature triplets a month ago, has found herself a baby! I had purchased a week old, exclusively bottle fed buckling off of Craigslist a week ago. We were keeping him separated from everyone else, as he...

What is the best way to deal with extra teats? When is the best time to deal with extra teats? My daughter and I each have a doe with extra nubbins. Her doe is currently in milk, having kidded last Saturday. Her extra nubbins is confusing to her kids and makes milking tricky. My doe is either...

We should be having kids in the next day or two. Grammy goat (suspected kinder) was marked on Sept 30. I swore I wrote that down somewhere, but of course, I can't find it. Oreo, my Nubian FF is looking like she is very close as well. I don't have a marking date for her, but she is bagging up...

We got baby chicks today. 10 Leghorns, 4 black sex link, 4 buff Orpingtons! Can't wait for this batch of chicks to become layers!

Today, while I was at Cal stores getting baby chicks, I asked about loose minerals. They had 2 different kinds, a trace mineral and a trace mineral plus selenium. The problem was that the bag said for horses and cattle. I asked 2 different employees who shrugged their shoulders and said they...

We should be having kids in the next week to 10 days. The goat house has been cleaned out, but we have no straw at this moment to put down. Pine shavings are easy to get and affordable too. Would these shavings be acceptable to use as bedding for kidding? I don't want to buy any if it isn't.

Quick question: What counts as 'grain' for goats? Specifically whethers? Do you have to watch intake of all grain type feed? Does pelletized goat feed hold the same dangers as rolled mix, sweet mix, or just whole grain wheat or corn?

This is our Grammy goat. We did not ever intend to buy her. My husband had bid on and purchased 3 newly weaned kids. When he picked them up, someone had insisted that she had purchased one of our weanlings. So they offered Grammy goat to us, she was in dire need of a milking and no one had...

Today was the big day. I went out and checked on our mama pig at 9:30 this morning and could tell that she was not well. She tried to get up to greet me and then just laid down with a "it's just too much work" look about her. She was breathing funny, kind of like she would inhale, hold her...

I have a pure bred, not papered, boar buck. We were so excited to have him breed our nubian girls, but, he doesn't seem to know what his business is! He spent 8 weeks with our girls, mid winter, early spring, and no kids! He spent some time at different farms in our area, where he didn't...

Hi all, I am new here, and kind of new to goats. We 'inherited' a couple of nubian does when my oldest daughter got married a couple of years ago. One of our does passed away during the winter, being new to goats, we have no idea what went wrong. Our other went on to give us beautiful...