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My Holland Lop's ears got frostbit a week ago, he was outdoors until then and is now indoors. A couple days ago I noticed he had some sores on his ears, and took a paper towel to them and they seemed like they were healing. I have kind of left them alone and not cleaned them up, but today I...

I know a number of you are familiar with the pregnancy issues I've been having with my girls since early in this year. To recap I have had 4 does (3 different does, 1 twice now) that I and others thought for SURE were pregnant, yet months and months have passed and none of those does have yet to...

Gusto is a nonregistered 1 year old purebred Nigerian Dwarf buck. For an extra $90 I can DNA test him and then he can be registered with ADGA and AGS. Gusto comes from good milking lines. His dam is QSF Silveraurora Wind, sire is either Silveraurora JC Vamoose or Silveraurora CC Verse. I have...

Every now and then I see some pictures of some gorgeous ND's that have beautiful shiny coats. My goats are still recovering as far as health is concerned, although I would consider them healthy, just not as healthy as I would like. But I'm wondering if anyone knows what specific nutrients help...

Gusto, my one year old, "little mistake" that looks really good in my unexperienced eyes. I'm thinking it looks like it would be worth the $90 to find out who his daddy was. But I am inexperienced. What do you think?

Today we were totally surprised by a friend deciding to reduce her herd, and she gave us 5 goats! I am very excited, these are some well bred goats! I feel so bad she had to reduce her herd size, she loves her goats dearly, but I can't help but being excited for myself! We now have a good buck...

My doe Cinnamon started developing an udder over a month ago. My yearling buck had been in with the girls from late Dec till just last week, so I don't exactly when her due date is, but I had written down when I saw her go into heat and the yearling get her. According to that her due date was a...

I have been chewin' around on the idea of trying to breed a mini-standard. I have no idea if my husband is game for it, or if I can even do it, but before I get to really seriously thinking about it, I'd like to know more about it. Just about the only thing I know is that you always use a mini...

As many of you that have read a number of my posts know... I have had my yearling buck in with my girls since December when the last of my bucks died. Well 4 weeks ago tomorrow a buckling was born here, and mama started going back into heat last week so I HAD to separate the bucks, or end up...

After looking at the "Breeding for Cocci Resistance" thread that made me wonder, what characteristics/problems do you cull or remove out of your herd for?

When my kids were first born I was really struggling with them getting to enjoy being with me. They were always scared of me and running away from me. Once I caught them they enjoyed the petting, but I wasn't making any progress at all as far as making really friendly goats. Then a friend told...

I know a bunch of us hare on Facebook, and a bunch of us have farm pages. So I thought I'd create a thread for us to share our FB pages and recieve updates from each other. Here is my "farm" page.

http://www.promisedlandfarm.net/caveatemptor.htm

One of my does I have a really hard time pulling down her eyelids to check them for the FAMACHA chart. Is this normal? The skin there is stretched so tight that I can't hardly see anything, and between her fighting me, it's really difficult to check them. She isn't too skinny, she is currently...

This winter has been hard monetarily for my husband and I and we just ran out of hay at the wrong time, when we ran out of money. :rolleyes: Hubby's boss found a big job so we should be able to get some more pretty quick here but I was just wondering if in the meantime if their diet is ok...

My girls are all dehorned, except for one who is polled. All the kids that we keep for ourselves however we are planning on not dehorning them because we have wolves and bears and all sorts of critters near us, and we plan on free ranging the goats, so they need to be able to protect themselves...

I'm trying to figure out how much kids born to me will be sellable for. I have what sounds like some really good lines in my little herd, but I don't know if having those lines is good enough to justify a higher price. Here in Alaska, a good/average, dual registered doe sells for $350, a buck...

I am reading Natural Goat Care and I saw it mentioned how certain goat breeds, and certain goats in those breeds can give a substantial amount of milk for even up to 7 years without being bred again. I can't find any information yet on how long a Nigie would give a good amount (worth milking...

I have had 4 does since July of last year. I bred all of them in August of last year and still have no kids. Two (Wind and Cammie) appeared to be pregnant and I was very hopeful for births in early Feb. Something happened though and for some reason either they were not pregnant and I was just...

My goats are eating snow instead of drinking their warm water. Is this ok? They started it just in the last couple days.