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Depends. What kind of goats are you feeding? Breed? Sexes? Pets? Breeding? Pregnant? Milking?

Finnsheep and Romanovs are the most prolific breeds. You can breed sheep to lamb on an accelerated schedule; sheep with longer breeding seasons are best adapted to this (Finns, Romanovs, Dorsets, Polypays, Katahdins, etc). There are many frequencies you can choose from, every 7.2 months (STAR)...

There are not a whole lot of purebred EFs in this country. Now EFs are prolifc as well -- not as prolific as Finnsheep, but similar. With the EFs though, I've heard the lambs are more prone to pneumonia. Now is that because they are bottle fed? Or is it an actual genetic weakness? I'm not...

Also another thing to note about milk production in regards to sheep -- unless they are noted as being a dairy breed (ie East Friesian, Lacuane, Rideau Arcott, etc), then usually they have just enough to produce milk for their lambs and not a whole lot extra. You could potentially 'trick' the...

I see you're in Gaithersburg -- that is not far from me. About a half hour or so from Frederick where I work and about an hour from where I live (outside of Hagerstown). The MD Sheep & Wool Festival is great place to look and learn about sheep. They have workshops and demonstrations which I...

Where in MD? I am near Hagerstown but I came from the Frederick area. There is a lady across the street from me who has a flock of nigerian dwarfs and she raises anatolian shepherds as well.

We bought a home with 7.2 acres a little over a year ago. We have not had it fenced in for my sheep, so my sheep are still at my parent's house. We are looking to fence in at least half of the property, I figure materials would be around $2600 to cover 1900 linear feet of woven wire fencing with...

Realized I never did upload photos of the barn. I may be going to my parent's house this weekend, if not, definitely for Thanksgiving... so I will make a point to go out there and take photos to upload here.

I am about 15 minutes from the WV border in Washington County, MD. Not sure how far that is away from you, but we are about 30 minutes from Martinsburg. If you want some pork, I have two 350 lb gilts I could sell you :) We just butchered two this past weekend.

Build your fence as strong as you can. We had five pigs that we had fenced in with three board fencing with fence posts spaced every 5 feet and cemented in the ground. When the pigs were smaller, they would dig underneath and escape that way. Now that they are bigger (we have four now as we...

We used carports.com / Elephant Structures -- I do NOT recommend them... they do not show up when they tell you they do.

Wow, I need some updated photos...they're so little here! We moved them to our new house back in March or April. We didn't have a livestock trailer, so we put them in the back of an open U-HAUL. In loading them, the Duroc boar got his foot caught in the gate of the trailer and his hoof came...

Miss you guys too! Been busy... my son is about to turn 9 months old, been back to work since December, and it's a 45 minute drive in the mornings and an hour and ten minute drive in the evenings. So I'm gone mostly all day, come home, cook dinner, play with the baby, feed the critters, and go...

Found this excellent Web site for animal health requirements going from state to state based on species, thought I would share... http://www.interstatelivestock.com/

Also two uncut mini pigs may take a while to get to butcher weight, by that time, their meat might have a funky flavor ("boar taint"). Though we did eat our 8 month old Duroc boar and he didn't taste bad.

Any update on your flock? By the way -- if you buy Dorpers priced at $300+, they will produce lambs that can be sold for the same. If you buy sheep that are $50 each, then you will just be producing more $50 sheep.

House dog, but he is outside for most of the day (he gets too hot inside). He isn't allowed with the sheep without supervision because he chases them, however he stops when he is corrected. He does like to lay under the tree outside the fence and watch them, though. He doesn't chase them outside...

This is a picture from a month ago. I haven't seen them since Thanksgiving, but they're a lot bigger than what they are in this photo. They were supposed to be at my new house already, we just don't have the pen set up yet. But my dad is taking care of them for me. He is one level below a store...

I think he weighs over 100 lbs now. I will have to ask my dad what he weighed at his last vet appt. My dad also takes him to the PetsMart obedience classes once a week. He's an okay dog, he is just food aggressive. He growls and tries to bite you when you take a bone away or get near his food...

On Thanksgiving Here he is next to our English Bulldog puppy. As you can see, Kodi has destroyed the sofa, lol. And then me and Kodi