thanks everyone!! we live in central texas. the goats have a little shelter for nighttime that is not shown. thanks for the advice! I will get some hay for them. should I lay off the alfalfa then? they are does.
Great advice!!! Thanks so much-that's why I finally asked. I didn't want to sound like a dummy, but I just was not finding the answers to my questions in those books.
Also asked some questions regarding feeding in the feeding forum. They are predominately on feed. We are building them in the...
Great!! Thank you so much-
When you say Hay, do you mean alfalfa?
I do have the granulated minerals. Just leave it out there in a dish??
Sorry about all of the silly questions, I'm just a nervous new goat owner, and I'm always worried about bloat .
Hey there goat friends!
I am reaching out because I'm a new owner of some Nigerian dwarf goats. We've got all the books and we've been educated by the breeder, but I still had some questions on vaccinations and worming. The breeder gave them their first shots, but he says that's usually all he...
Can I get some feeding advice?
Backstory-
We have 2 young Nigerian Dwarf goats, they are 16 weeks old. I know that there are a lot of variables that go into play, but when we got them they were being fed a certain amount of grain for breakfast and dinner. We continue to feed them what they...
Thank you. I will check out these collars. The breakaway cat colors I have just break away when you look at them. Hoping these might work a little better. I never planned to leave them alone chained up, I just want to be able to move them throughout my property without them eating certain plants...
Yay, thanks for the welcome. I am west of Austin, in the beautiful hill country. Having lots of fun with our goats so far. Can y'all recommend any kind of situations to chain or rope them so I can get them into some different fields to graze until fencing is complete. I just want to be able to...
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new goat people-just got 2 Nigerian Dwarfs-yay!! The fellow we got them from said to use breakaway cat collars. Well those don't work well....I am looking for something my kids can walk them around our property with to graze and just have fun. Also, I am looking for something safe we can...