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I’m talking to guy who might lease his 5 acres for my goats to graze. But there is some problems. The property is on the creek and there are a lot of coyotes and 1-2 mountain lion who walk the creek at night. I had a kid killed 2 months ago by one. The problem is that he is in the city and you...

Hi I have 3 commercial boer doe mixes . I also have fullblood boer buck. If I bred my commercial does with my buck could the kids be registrable? Where can I find dna test percentage tests for my does? What are the requirements?

I have to put my Boer goats (5-12 depending on the season) in 250sqft house at night. I have been using a 60 gallon stock tank with a float. It takes so much space though. I bought one of these...

Hello I have a goat that has a hard abscess on the side of the neck where I gave a CL vaccine last weekend. There is puss coming out and it is very hard. The goat has a temp of 101.6F. Could this be a side effect of the vaccine? A infection? If it is a infection what can I do? I don't have a...

On Friday 3/5 my Doeling ran up some sheet metal of their housing. Getting a cut deep cut on her hind leg. I applied Neosporin and Bluekote then wrapped it with vet wrap. I did my vet wrap to tightly and the next day her hooves were swollen and wouldn't put any weight on it. I removed the vet...

I have some mixed breeds goats, I got from a meat goat producer. Today I have a goat that with an abscess under its ear pop with white cream puss. I'm worried that it is CL. What should I do? I cleaned the puss around the ear and sprayed blukote around the area. I' getting a purebred Boer buck...

I'm building a goat night pen with 16x4 cattle panels to night pen them from our Mountain Lion problem. The cattle panels are supported by 100% 7 foot t post driven 3 feet in the ground. I will then install PVC pipe 4 Ft. tall. I ran 8 strands of hot wire around the pen above the cattle panels...

Can anyone point me in a direction for a automatic goat door big enough for a Boer goat? I can't seem to find any. We had our first lost the other week due to a Mountain Lion since we can't get LGDs I'm building them a little house and I'm looking for a door that will open at a certain time in...

I have a pasture setup and I'm deciding if I should buy a goat hutch or build a a 3 sided shelter. I have 4 does & 1 buck all Boers. People who have used goat hutches. How often do clean it out? What would be cheaper? I get usually less that 4 inches of rain and the whole setup needs to visually...

his is my hay feeder, its a pallet that is wired to the chain-link fence at an angle. It holds a lot of hay and works okay as a temporary one until I get one a proper one built. Its on the bottom of the to do list. I have 2 question. I seem to have a quite a bit of hay spillage. I plan to...

I have 6 (3 does & 3 kids) Boer/Kiko cross "brush goats". I'm deciding to either buy buck to kid them out or some sheep. I live in Socal and been having a hard time finding Boer or Kiko bucks that are less than $500. Another problem that I have is I don't have trailer so I need it delivered...

I want to setup a strand of electric fence on a 6 ft tall chanilink. I want the wire to be above the chain-link. Does anyone know of any insulators that hook on poles that are vertical? I've tried using ones for horizontal but the wire just slips out.

I can't night pen my goats because I cant open let them out in the morning reliably. Is there any way to do this automatically like a chicken coop automatic door? Or have a lng chute of electrical fencing with some turns so the goats become precondition to the route but will confuse the coyote.

I live in SoCal and I’m looking for a good breeding Boer buck for my does. I’ve been looking at Craigslist and once and a while I see one. Is there any other way to buy livestock? There is only one auction per year here.

Hello I live in Santa Barbara, CA and I have 6 goats. I work part time with a goat brush clearing company. They run 100 head of Boer/Kiko cross goats what they use for fencing is Premier one netting and a LGD with no housing. The space I have a available is a 1 acre parcel on a hill in the...

Hello I live in Santa Barbara, CA and I'm planning on getting some 6 goats. I work part time with a goat brush clearing company. They run 100 head of Boer/Kiko cross goats what they use for fencing is Premier one netting and a LGD with no housing. The space I have a available is a 1 acre parcel...