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  1. First Time Goat.Mum

    Bleeding Banding

    Just as everything is settling down, I went to check and Dilly is bleeding. He was banded approx 4 weeks ago (1 week old but he had dropped) and a livestock vet said the banding looked great but today I went to check and his parts were bleeding and were barely hanging on my a strand. From my...
  2. First Time Goat.Mum

    Scours, again?!

    Dilbert and Cooper, my two wethers, have had their fair share of issues with lice, eye infections and scours. I thought they were on the road to recovery with a new diet and some medications (ProBios and Pedialyte) but out of no where yesterday Cooper got a bad case of the scours. I am thinking...
  3. First Time Goat.Mum

    Loud Goats!

    So here in Seattle the temp has been around 25-35 degrees on a daily basis. The boys get cold and I just can’t bare to leave them outside so on the colder days I have brought them inside for a few hours. As it has gotten colder I have had to do this more often and it is getting exhausting and...
  4. First Time Goat.Mum

    Purple Disbudding Spots?

    So today I decided to research and make sure our goats were properly disbudded and banded. After looking at a few things I saw that ours were not as most people’s looked. From what I saw most were brown and copper but ours are a deep purple. The dsibudding was done about two weeks ago but the...
  5. First Time Goat.Mum

    New goat mom!

    Hi! I just adopted two Nigerian Dwarf wethers from, unfortunately, a less than trustworthy farm. The kids came with what we think is worms, lice and what we think was an eye infection. I finally decided to join a goat forum group to get some experts advice on them! My instagram where I will post...
  6. First Time Goat.Mum

    New goat mom!

    Hi! I just adopted two Nigerian Dwarf wethers from, unfortunately, a less than trustworthy farm. The kids came with what we think is worms, lice and what we think was an eye infection. I finally decided to join a goat forum group to get some experts advice on them! My instagram where I will post...
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