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    Can you register with scurs?

    Our wonderful buck from champion lines has about 3 inch long scurs. Hes was disbudded. We really want to register him because he has such wonderful potential but if not, we don't want his value to go down. Thanks
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    Goat tattoo is wrong

    We had a lady that had been raising milk goats for a few years come out to tattoo our kids. First of all, she argued with us that for the ADGA tattoo that you put the number on the kids ear as the number of goat kids the mother had her whole life, not the number of kids born that year. We are so...
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    Did our goat break her leg??

    A few days ago we saw that our milking doe wasn't quite walking strait she had a bit of a limp on her back left leg but nothing to serious. But this morning I noticed it got worse and now she won't put much weight on it at all. It makes it very hard for us to milk her. We checked her hoof and it...
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    HELP! BABY GOAT LOST LOTS OF BLOOD!!

    This morning we came outside to bottle feed our 2 week old nigerian dwarf kids and while we were feeding our other kids one of our doeling snagged her head and ripped open her wound on her freshly disbudded head. She started gushing blood and we ran to our milking parlor and grabbed a paper...
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    Goats!! Vote on my Poll!

    HEY! I am going to be making polls every week. Pick which answer you think best applies to you then write something in the comments. Thanks for checking this out! BTW this poll will end in 7 days! PSI love floppy eared goats like Nubians.
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    Do you feed pigs on the day of butcher?

    I just had this question. We don't feed our Cornish X on the day of butcher so does that apply to our feeder pig? Tomorrow he is going to the butcher so we would like to know if we should still feed him tomorrow?
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    Best dog that protects animals and kids?

    Hello! Sorry I didn't really know where to post this but whatever. I am wondering what breeds of dogs you all have? We are looking into getting a dog. We would like to get one that can protect chickens and goats but not really be totally bonded to them. It will be bonded to us, if that makes any...
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    Feeder pig has greenish watery stools

    Today I noticed that Ham Solo had some greenish watery diarrhea. Yesterday I feed him his pellets, a whole lot of oldish cucumbers (he has had them before just not this many) from the farmers market, a orange sweet bell pepper, a corn on the cob, and a grapefruit. He seems like his normal self...
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    How much?

    I don't know if this is the best place to put this thread but oh well. We are going on a camping trip with a few of our friends from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, I was wondering how much y'all pay someone to take care of your animals. We have one feeder pig, 2 pet goats (we do not milk...
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    Maggots!

    Today when I was cleaning out the goats pen I found maggots in their house!:he:barnieI have let the chickens out to eat them but there is still a lot! I feel terrible! Any way I could get rid of them and prevent them from coming back? Thanks!
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    Pig with dry ears?

    Hello! My pig has some dry skin on his ears, he is probably 3 months old. We live in Arizona so our winters are very dry could that be my problem? Should I put some cream on it? Thanks!
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    Hi, I am new here!

    Hi! I am new to BYH! I just wanted to introduce myself. I have two spoiled goats named Mable and Milo Murphy, one feeder pig named Ham Solo, three dogs, three barn cats, a whole lotta chickens, two turkeys and one rabbit named Floppsy.:frow
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