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My 9 y.o. daughter and I have had our 2 girls for a year now. I bottle raised Barbie, a Spanish-Boer cross, and once she was weaned I got her a companion, Paprika, who is supposed to be a Boer crossed with something but I don't remember what it is, and she was probably about 1 y.o. when I got...

Thanks, mistee & Roll farms, for your responses. Unfortunately they MUST go, but not until we find a good home for them.

My 9 y.o. daughter and I have had our 2 girls for a year now. I bottle raised Barbie, a Spanish-Boer cross, and once she was weaned I got her a companion, Paprika, who is supposed to be a Boer crossed with something but I don't remember what it is, and she was probably about 1 y.o. when I got...

I love them .... and call them bad names on a daily basis. They're way smarter than people think.

@Ariel -- no runny nose, eyes or cough. I'm thinking she's just sounding like a piggy ..... because she is. I've only got 2 goats and they're both female, so no chance of being pregnant. And she is always at the feed trough first AND last. Oink.

Barbie, my 6 month old Spanish-Boer (was a bottle baby) sounds like a pig when she breaths. (I can think of no other way to describe it:P except maybe if you were pretending to snore) She eats, sleeps, plays, poops, etc. normally, but her breathing just doesn't sound normal. It certainly is...

I know a lady is not supposed to pass gas BUT that's just what my little Barbie did today! She's a 5 month old bottle baby that I'm trying to wean and when I heard her toot this afternoon after her bottle I laughed, and then I started worrying about why she was passing gas. Is this .... normal?

One of my two goats is having clumpy poop instead of normal pellets. It looks like a small ball of poop bigger than the size of an extra-large marble but smaller than a golf ball. My bottle baby is 9 weeks old and for the last week I've cut her morning & evening bottle in half. The other...

Thanks for the advice. I'm guess I'm going to have to abide by tough love if I reduce her to 1 bottle a day. She sure does let me know every morning & afternoon that it's time for HER BOTTLE!!! I guess it will be kind of the same way I let my 2 legged baby cry when I made her sleep in her own...

Thanks DonnaBelle! I love my goats and want them healthy & happy. Will check out your suggestions.

My bottle baby is a Spanish/Boer and is approximately 8 weeks old. She's on a milk replacer (Ultra 24) and she's doing well. She gets a bottle in the morning and one in the evening. She is also eating grass and leaves and grain. When and how should I go about weaning her off the bottle?

I'm a new goat owner and need advice on what medications I need to be giving and how often and how, etc. My bottle baby is 8 weeks old today and is a Spanish/Boer. A couple of weeks ago I got a Kinder/Boer, approximately 1 year old, to keep the baby from getting lonely. I didn't do any goat...

I'm in Kyle, Texas.

When do you decide they need to be trimmed? By age? By hoof length? My baby goat is just 6 weeks old.

Thanks everyone. That's exactly what I was thinking.

My uncle gave me a boer/spanish mixed doe who was rejected by her mom at birth (she had twins). She is 6 weeks old now and has been bottle fed. She seems to be thriving but I'm worried about her being lonely. Most of the time she stays in her pen. We do let her out when we're in the yard...

We're repurposing my daughter's playscape into a chicken coop and my husband was grumbling about what we were going to do with the slide --- now I have the answer for him! A toy for the goat! Thanks for the idea.

Thanks for the breed. I'll have to look up info on them.

Your babies are so cute! I'm new to goats. What is the breed?