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    Goat attack or something different?

    We've owned goats (Nigerian Dwarf) for around five years or so. They were mostly obtained from a reputable breeder (we had three goats that stayed with us for a year that were abandoned by a neighbor). The majority on our farm are bottle babies. We have four separate pens. Our largest pen...
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    Rejecting Kid?

    I have a goat currently (or just finishing) kidding. I'm not sure when it started, but it couldn't have been more than an hour or two. One of the kids is still 'dirty' and hasn't been cleaned. It was wandering around the pen and trying to play with another kid (different mother). The other kid...
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    Uncured Bacon?

    We recently brought back three pigs from the processor. My husband is the one who filled out the paperwork and he wanted nothing cured. He remembers being asked if he had ever eaten uncured bacon (which he hadn't). I cooked bacon today and it looked odd. It looked white after cooking rather than...
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    Wet Hay

    I'm a bit annoyed this morning... A neighbor down the road asked me if I wanted to purchase hay bales (square) at a great price. He had a number of bales loaded on his trailer and didn't want to unload them and re-load them. I've used his hay before - sometimes directly from him and sometimes...
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    Will Goats Roam Back to Neighbor's House?

    I have a few rescue goats - two adult females and one male wether. We acquired them when our neighbors moved 1 1/2 hours away and left them behind - they called and asked us if we would take them. They were in pitiful shape and one of them is still slowly in the process of gaining weight back -...
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    Abandoned Goat - Starving? Worms? Not Sure...

    We have raised Nigerian Dwarf goats for several years. I can identify and treat simple issues. I know our goats well enough to know if something is "off" but I'm not a goat expert. One of our neighbors moved here about two years ago and purchased goats. (We live in the country and have very few...
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    Can a rabbit die of stress a week after the event?

    A friend of mine raises rabbits and is on vacation for a month. When she left, she had four adult females, one male, and six babies. I raise rabbits as well, but only for about a year. She left another person house-sitting who would feed, water the rabbits and she asked me to be on stand-by if...
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    Breeding problem with Kunekune

    We purchased a breeding pair of kunekune last spring. The sow had been previously bred (to a different pig) and arrived pregnant. She delivered piglets without a problem. She had five but only two have lived to be a year old (both females). I was told the male was proven. Our proven sow has not...
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    Mastitis? Or something else? Nigerian Dwarf...

    One of our goats kidded about two weeks ago. This is her third time kidding and she has always been great. In the past, we let her kids nurse until they weaned. This time, we decided to bottle feed as she had two beautiful little does. We pulled the two kids late yesterday afternoon. When we...
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    Udder question...

    One of my goats (Nigerian Dwarf) kidded earlier this year. I was later than usual banding the boys. They were approximately 7 weeks old. A neighbor actually came over and helped my husband (I was out of town helping out my sister). She said that they were developing fast and offered to help...
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    Goat with Scours

    We have Nigerian Dwarf goats. I have an almost three year old doe who had quadruplets about 7 weeks ago. Two of them are still nursing. Yesterday morning, we noticed that she was having a great deal of diarrhea and looked a bit gaunt around the back end. She isn't having loose stools, she's...
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    Merging goats together?

    I'm purchasing three more goats (one male, two female) to add to our small herd. All three will be less than two months old. I also have young goats (less than two months old). We are keeping one male, one wether and one female. Would it be possible to put the new buck in with the buck and...
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    Goat Butting People

    We have a gorgeous 4 year old Nigerian Dwarf buck. He's slightly larger than breed standard and was sold to us since he couldn't be shown. He was bottle-raised and a huge favorite with anyone near him (including the ladies in the pens). He's our herd sire and gives us beautiful kids. (In other...
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    What Happened? Birthing question.

    My Nigerian Dwarf, Sugar, kidded today. I had been watching her very closely since yesterday (pawing ground, restless). Last year she kidded 3 as a FF without any problem. Today, I felt like we had a problem but I'm not exactly sure what happened or if I should have done something differently...
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    Do I really need Noble Goat?

    We bought our goats nearly two years ago. My husband wrote down the feeding instructions for what they had been given previously and we have faithfully followed it. Recently, I started worrying that we were over-feeding or feeding the wrong thing, so I started looking further into it. Now I'm...
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    Nigerian Dwarf Goats and feeding

    Hi, I'm new here and new with goats. We are trying to transform our property into a farm. We purchased chickens earlier this year and last week bought Nigerian Dwarf goats (six of them). We had the pens ready (and we're building portable pens as well), but I'm still confused about feeding. We...
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