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thanks everyone. another update, I got the doe, she's 8 weeks old, got her on Saturday, didn't have her for two hours before she escaped and basically vanished for the rest of the day. We found her and picked her up in a town far away from us, and she is one tough goat. She had a bunch of wounds...

Some sad news today. My first goat of the two brothers that I got, buddy, died today. We had to do it, because he could no longer pee and there was nothing the vets could do to save him. So, now I have only one goat, but im getting one doe at the end of the month, so I think he can manage until...

It's been a while since I've been on, so here's an update on the farm. JohnnyBoy and Buddy have grown a lot, and are use to us more. They are also drinking less milk, and on the 19th, im planning on dropping their milk from 2 bottles to 1 and a half, and will keep that until march 1st or 5th. I...

I haven't been on here in a while... well, I have become the proud owner of 2 goats on the 23, a black buckling with white spotting named Samuel L. Jackson, and a white buckling with black spotting, Buddy, they're brothers and the ying and yang. Sadly, on the 26th, Sammy became limp, and died...

@Latestarter I'm actually use to babies dying, though not very often as my family breeds Mini Dachshunds, and we do get a stillborn or accident here and there, still hurts though when they die.

@Green Acres Farm We are planning to, but not right now, we want to make sure that Buddy, or Sparky, as my mom wants to rename him, survives, so we'll wait another week or two before getting another goat, which will most likely be older than him, and might just be his own mom if she's still...

ok, im goign to se about getting him to our local vet to get him all his shots.

thank you all for trying to help anyways, all I know now is, if my remaining buckling, Buddy gets ill, I don't care what time it is, im going to call a vet, even if it takes an hour for them to pick up...

I should of seen this before, but he's dead now, and my dad went to bury him while I was asleep so I didn't have to see the body. And no, we didn't because we didn't have the mother, so we had to train them to bottle feed, and went from milk replacer, which they hated to whole milk, which they...

bad news, he took a turn for the worse, and to answer @Green Acres Farm We just switched to whole milk, but for a day or two, we had him on milk replacer, and no probiotics. in the morning, since it's 3 am right now, i'll see about getting a hold of a vet for him.

well, I think it might have been FKS or bloat, because he's up now, and walking with a tiny push, so I think he's clear, but i'll probably stay up tonight just to make sure he's a-ok.

oh, well, we also think he may have bloat.

So, today one of my first kids, he's three weeks old, became limp, he was fine only a few hours ago, we went out to eat, came back and I tried to feed him, he fed well, but when I put him down to walk to his brother, he collapsed and wouldn't get back up. He's floppy, but we don't think he has...

alright, my mom went out to talk to the original owner, and we actually got them to eat some. And im not sure if the mother is still there since they are trying to sell the mother nope, they were never bottle babies when we got them, they were just pulled from their mom.

I do that, but they never drink any milk....

so, after reviewing it, and speaking to my AG advisor on this, and the fact my parents got me 2 bucklings for Christmas, im going to probably show my two boys instead and see if goats are my thing that way, they will both be wethers, so that'll also be a bit easier to handle, or at least I think so.

So, today my parents surprised me with two Nigerian bucklings, and we're having trouble bottle feeding, I don't know if they're just not hungry or not, ill try in the morning and see if they cooperate a bit more. They are both almost 3 weeks old.

After some talking to my dad, again, we could also sell at a city near us, as he thinks they'd buy a lot more veggies and is usually full of dog breeders.

Welp, on Thursday im going to tour a goat farm, not sure if it's a Nigerian Dwarf goat farm yet, but any goat farm at the moment will do since I have someone in my school who has Nigerian Dwarfs.

Where im at there's no breeding license needed to breed dogs if we have a small number of dogs, which is 3, we have 3 breeding females, and don't plan on getting anymore, or at least im content with my one loyal dog. and in the town we live in, we don't have grocery stores, we have a general...