Good morning! Wanting to have some conversation about causes of premature goat birth. I have a mini LaMancha that had her first set of babies (twins) last year about this time. If my calculations were correct (still sort of new, so learning and improving each year)-she was two weeks early. No...
Hello! I am starting to either pull out my first round of crops here in AL, or I am swimming in excess of a few things. I’d love to hear what some of you use from your garden to feed livestock (particularly goats, sheep and poultry)-and especially how you preserve it to be good to use over the...
We have a small, mixed sheep/goat herd, so we don’t use a feed with copper. I am getting copper bolus today and want to take care of that for my three goats. One is due to deliver within about a week, any problem with giving it to her at this time?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I am looking for suggestions for an animal that might eat some grass that apparently is not attractive to our goats and sheep. Our land is mostly forested, and the goats and sheep are doing an amazing job clearing it. We bought the sheep thinking they would be more likely to munch the grass...
One of our mini lamanchas has a rashy looking thing going on. Just noticed today-dry-doesn’t seem to be bothering her-on each side of mouth (small patches) and sprinkled down her neck/chest. It isn’t red or irritated at this point.
Maybe a contact related thing she ate? They forage our...
Picked up these cuties today-are their features/colors consistent with Katahdins? Should we help the scraggly hair off with a good brushing or leave it to do it’s own thing?
Thanks for any insight to help us first time sheep owners!
We live on 10 mostly wooded acres in the Appalachian foothills. We have a few sketchy patches of grass (using that term loosely). We’d like to encourage them to expand, so we can support a couple of grazing animals better.
This photo shows a section of “grass” that is growing lushly. The...
We recently became goat farmers-and even more specifically, bought a standard lamancha /Boer mix doe. She’s 3; has had two sets of kids in previous years.
She was in with a Sannen buck for a month prior to our purchase, but was not seen being bred, so wasn’t guaranteed pregnant. So, of...
We are fairly new to goats (mini lamanchas and one standard Lamancha/Boer mix for now), and are delighted how well they are munching the underbrush on our mostly wooded property.
Any insight on the possibility of cutting/drying/baling any of this forage to save for winter? We often need to...
So, we bought a goat over the weekend that doesn’t quite seem to be what she was reported to be. She’s much bigger than we expected-but we are very much newbies, so that’s likely our fault. She also has a broken off horn and a scrappy single one-was reported to us ahead of time as “dehorned.”...
Looking forward to learning and sharing with you all!
We are recently moved to North Central Alabama, and are loving our home and property in the hills.
We’ve just started our homesteading journey, so for the moment, our herd consists only of two mini lamancha doelings (and chickens and...