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Okay Alpaca enthusiasts, here is my situation followed by a couple of questions. I currently own/breed/raise meat goats. I have two fiber goats I bought this past summer to begin working with fiber. I also have a pair of Great Pyrenees guardian dogs. We also have horses, pgs, chickens etc but...

We have a PBP that is (hopefully) nearing her due date. I have NO idea when she would have been bred. I do know I haven't seen any amorous advances from the boar for more than a month for sure (and yes it could be up to three months since I've seen any hanky-panky). With our goats even...

I have two old spot/yorkshire gilts that we are raising for meat. We also have a young male and female pair of PBP that we will be raising as breeders for future generations of meat pigs. Should I be feeding the PBPs any differently than the feeder pigs we have? We are currently feeding a...

We had our first goat baby (doeling :D) born here two days ago. We were unsure of moms due date so had not given the CD/T booster yet. (we bought her two weeks ago already bred). When can/should I give the doeling her CD/T booster? I'm finding some sites say wait until 3 weeks, then again...

Here in northern lower Michigan the weather gets really nasty!! I have a heavily fenced in 48x30 garden area (that I can also hotwire) that I would like to put two feeder pigs in around Oct/Nov and have slaughtered around April-ish. I do realize that it will take more to raise a pig (feed...

I feed a ration of whole oats(250#), rolled corn(200#),soybean meal(50#) and molasses(25#) to my goats and horses. (I mix a few additional things to feed the goats) What I was wondering, will this mix work for pigs (going to market)if supplemented with hay? If NOT, what additions can I make to...