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do you open the gate toward you or toward them? i found that if i opened it toward them, i have better control. if i open it toward myself, they all lean in and push their way through. just a thought.

we are raising meat goats, boer. after weaning, our spring kids were started on grain feed in the morning, and pasturing the balance of the day with hits of grass hay if it's raining. i wasn't sure if it was an age or weight target to hit. thanks!

has anyone heard of a paste to remove goat horns on very young goats? an amish woman mentioned it in passing and i have no knowledge of such a thing.

recognizing that i will get many responses that are against eating hand-raised goats, would anyone tell me the best age to have them processed for the freezer?

i needed to use some bloodstop while trimming my goat's hooves. now my cuticles, nails and dry skin are stained black! anyone know how to clean this up without tearing up my hands? it's like the creeping crud . . .

now that we know this buck yearling tested positive, we will check his sister as well. the mom doe came back clean. so confusing. i checked the ABGA papers of my does and: jack and jane were parents of 4 of my does these same does were bred with jack (their father) [i did not know this until...

the breeders we purchased all of our stock from were contacted and we were told they did not test any of their stock for either CL or CAE, nor did they vaccinate for it, yet they sold 4h and breeding stock for 5+ years. hindsight is 20/20. i was so excited about and taken with the boer goat...

the deposits are for kids that had mothers that tested clean, so i'm good there. since i have had no physical signs of CL to date, do i have an otherwise clean herd? the yearling buck is the one that tested + and i am in the process of drafting an email saying he is no longer for sale. from...

we just got the lab results on our small herd of boer goats. we tested the adult does and and one yearling buck - everyone tested negative for CAE - 2 tested positive for CL. what to do next? no physical signs of CL in herd right now, but am unsure with how to handle this or what to do with this...

are waddles hereditary? because both of the babies have them.

the father was dehorned at 2 weeks. the mother was purchased at an auction and i have no info, but she has what looks like horn scars on her head. so i guess we have a decision to make . . . i love the wattles too! i just considered them goat jewelry on the mom.

mom is saanen - dad is boer. will the offspring have horns? so far they are white like momma with long legs and have dad's large face and boer ears. both also have their mom's dangles (?). if i want them removed, should i band them like testicles? isn't he too cute!!?! just 3 hours old.

thanks! ours kids are 100% boer. i noticed on another site that a 3/4 boer buckling went for $200 as a wether and $250 as a buckling. kind of goes all over the map, doesn't it? i'm not wanting to squeeze a 4H kid, but i sure don't want to take a loss either. we're pretty new at this, so we have...

we are receiving calls for 4H wethers (our first births on the farm!) and are unsure what they are going for in se michigan. one farm is $75 another is $125. input from other boer breed michiganders, please . . .

any recommendations on the size stall we should have for a boer doe? i have 8 goats who will be birthing in mid-march and just starting setting up stalls in our pole barn. thanks for any input!

i tried the outside the fence feeding as well, after getting mauled a few too many times by my boers. first few weeks i split the herd up into two groups closing the gate to their mini pastures. then i lined up the flat bowls along the fence and would drop food through the fence. it worked so...

we are "almost amish acres" and we aren't amish. friends called us that when they saw we moved from the city, heat with wood, grow/can/freeze our own produce, raise our own eggs, etc. i say it's because i won't give up my blow dryer or coffeemaker...

it had soybean on it last year. i just thought dry land was better than the wet land they are now on. it's the lowest spot of our property, near woods and wetlands, so i wanted to move them quicker than later. and i was planning on just fencing in a small area until the ground accepted the seed...

we just purchased 6 acres next to our property that has been used in a rotating crop for years. we want to put up a goat structure and move our boer goats to that land since it is higher ground and dryer. need recommendations: do we need to seed in pasture before we put them there? i'm thinking...

we got the lambs as feeder lambs because we don't want to over winter livestock here in mid-michigan. i'd love some ewes (and pregnant ones, especially!), but we don't really have the facilities for overwintering; just a shelter for them from the sun and a small pen area inside a larger pen...