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I have been working with one of the mustang's out at the rescue. The goal is to get training on a pony sized mustang for my daughter to start working with him. He is halter trained. My daughter and I can pick up all 4 feet to clean them with no issue. At first he yanked away. We have worked...

Due to lack of time in my schedule. I have only bred 3 does. The mini herd has been put on hold until I have more time. We have 2 ND and 1 mini mancha bred. Nilla was bred back to Dreamy. This is a repeat breeding. Due 12/22/20. Mary (ND) bred to Valor. Due 1/3/21. Kate (mini mancha)...

I need help trying to diagnose what is going on with a rescue mare. My daughters and I are trying to get this mare back into health. She is thin and her hip seems to pop in place (it does not make a popping noise, just the best way I can describe it). We have 1 local vet that sees large...

I have decided to start my registered mini mancha herd. The mini mancha is my absolute favorite breed. The thread currently will be plans for the herd. With showing the progression. I am in no rush to get to F6. I want to make sure that our foundation is solid before moving forward into F5...

Hubby has been wanting to raise our wethers for some time to process. This year I agreed. Our does had 2 bucks. One Mini Lamancha and one boer/lamancha. DH also went and purchased 2 nubian wether bottle babies that we will be fattening up as well. With our processor he gives a discount if you...

A lot has changed since last year kidding season. We sold all of our unregistered goats. With our children showing, we needed all registered goats. We are trying to keep our numbers small. We have 2 ND does bred. Nilla is due 2/29. Rhea is due 3/7. We're excited to see what both have. Both...

This year my children will be showing our does. So far 4 of our children want to show. I am looking into everything that is needed and the rules with the fair we are planning on going to. I was reading the rules and unless I am not understanding them. My youngest who is 8 y/o, can not show...

My sister has 2 steers that are being raised to slaughter. They were about 6-8 months old when she got them. She has had them 3 1/2 months. They are on about 5-6 acres pasture (this is a guess as to how big the pasture is). The pasture is lush and green right now. Right now they are...

Friday the 15th of this month right as my family were laying down, my husband heard a horse whinny. At that moment my oldest DD came into my room, telling me there was a horse in front of our property. I ran outside told my oldest DD to grab some grain in a bucket. He walked off at first, but...

The Southern California Dairy Goat Assoc. is raffling off a simple pulse milking system. Here is the link if anyone is interested in buying some tickets. http://www.socaldga.com/store/c2/Select_a_raffle_ticket_option_by_clicking_on_the_picture_below%3A.html

With Thanksgiving around the corner. I was wondering if anyone had any must have holiday recipes? As a child I thought cranberry sauce (canned from the store) was the worst thing to have on Thanksgiving & Christmas. Until I found a recipe. I made it for my husband. My husband loves cranberry...

My sister has an American Fainting doe. Trying to figure out what is the correct age or weight or both she should be before breeding? She was born December 2016. She's not in a hurry to breed her. Just wants to know when she could breed her. I googled this, trying to find any information out...

A lot has been going on around here. My husband sold his mini alpine buck & wether. We sold strawberry the boer/nubian doe. Honey was bred by my sisters buck. My daughter did not close the gate right, he escaped. About a month left before shes due. Picture taken yesterday. We got a new...

I just came back inside from checking on the goats. I noticed that strawberry is starting to get an udder, it's visible when she walks past you. We checked her. I checked the other two girls that are older than her, they do not look like this. She has not been around a buck since she has been...

We are trying to decide on when or if to breed two of our doelings. We have chocolate who is a ND she was born 5/4/16. Willow Mini Nubian born 5/8/16. I have searched on BYH and googled, but the information on when to breed it seems is very controversial. Willow will not be bred until we...

My husband finally won me over. We brought home his feeder pig yesterday. I have never raised a pig and have always been opposed to it. However I do want to make sure the guy is 1. Fed right, 2 taken care of properly up until freezer camp. We went and got pig food from the feed store that is...

We brought strawberry home today. She's boer mix. I'm beyond happy to have her home. She's slightly older than 3 months old. Was told she's boer/nubian. However she's got some crazy ears like Willow. Only bucks they have on the property are nubian & nigerian dwarf. She's 36.6 lbs. I will try to...

Hi everyone, We brought home a 10 week old buckling yesterday. He is SO thin! You can't tell he's that thin, until you put your hands on him. I just couldn't leave the little guy. You can feel every bone. Back bone, rib bones, hip bones. He is currently in the house, in a kennel. We gave him...

My sister purchased two Corriedale Ewes. She's looking into purchasing a ram. She wants to cross the ewes with something to get a good meat lamb. What breed of sheep would you recommend to cross with the Corriedale to get a good meat lamb?

Just curious what age everyone weans their kids? Our bucks were all weaned at 8 weeks old, when we brought them home. I also have my sisters ND that were also weaned at 8 weeks old. Our mini nubian was weaned at 1 week shy of 3 months. We're getting our last doeling a boer cross soon? She...