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Hi there, been gone a while.....:cool: but still raising Boer goats! I had asked about a buck I owned last year, who was getting agressive and nasty. He was smashing gates, harassing the other bucks etc. Well, he was sold about 2 months ago. And the lady who bought him calls me all the time...

Spicey kidded this morning, true to form, no clue she was going to. Large twins, the doeling is extremely large boned, I thought she was a buckling. She holds her head down and cries, like she can't raise her head. I milked the doe and gave her milk in a syringe and she will suck the syringe and...

Pixie, our Kiko/Boer cross, kidded Monday. Twins, one girl and a boy. She took right to them, and nursed them. Although she did a really poor job of cleaning the doeling, :rolleyes: I had to wash her down myself. She cleaned the boy OK, but I've seen lots better jobs. Today I noticed that she...

Brought a few does in a couple nights ago, Delilah has a lot of discharge and soft in the rear, Spicey always tricks me, and Pixie sure looks close. Well, not one of them has done a thing. :rolleyes: But found Amber with a set of twin doelings this morning in the outside pen. :weee She had gone...

hi everyone! :frowI have been gone a LOOOONG time! Very busy here at the ranch. But it is kidding time so I want to start reading about everyone's kids! All my does were put in with the buck July 1. I saw some show some signs of coming in but never saw one actually bred. But they are all...

We got all the goats shown yesterday and I am home for a few minutes to check in here at home for a few to do chores, wanted to post the results. We are SOOO excited, and I hope I remember all this right. Ricci Champion Showmanship Intermediate, Reserve Champion Market Goat Medium weight...

So to add insult to injury, in my ill fated purchase of a small herd of registered does, now the 2 does that tested clean for CL/Johnes and CAE are really looking like they are not pregnant at all. :th She said they were due in June, well, that ship has sailed, any belly they had I think now was...

Ok, so as if this week has not been enough so far, baby trying to die on me, grandsons' horse extremely lame, NOW when the kids get their wethers out for their showmanship clinic, I see one of the wethers has big knees. One is larger than the other, and they are soft and squishy like they have...

I have a sick baby, he was born May 10th, one of my bottle babies. I posted on the Emergency thread also. He has a fever of 104.7 by digital thermometer. No scours. He was fine yesterday, a little off this morning, didn't want his whole bottle, and when I put them out, he wasn't real frisky. I...

I have a very sick baby tonight. He has been fine, eating like a little pig. This morning he didn't want all his bottle, but drank some. When I put the babies out in the play area, he was hanging back a little. I still didn't think a lot of it, cause the bigger girls kind of pick on him. In hind...

1. What state/province/country are you in and what is your climate like? Oregon, I live in the high desert. Warm to hot, dry summers, cold winters. Some snow. 2. How many people are in your family? 3 grandkids live with me, and my younger sister with Downs. Marital status? Widow 3...

My grandsons horse turned up lame yesterday morning. She was turned out in pasture all day, came in with no noticeable lameness. When he went to get her out of her stall, she was 3 legged, would barely put weight on the back foot. I found some slight swelling in the inside of the hock. Also a...

I know most every one on the forum uses cows milk for bottle babies. I usually use goats milk if I have a goat with only one that I can milk. These last two bottle babies, someone gave me a huge bag of milk replacer and I fed that to them with no ill effects at all, no scours etc. The 3 I bought...

I am very excited, I am going to look at babies tomorrow!:weee Kiko/Boer cross. The reason I am so excited is....the sire, the Kiko, is a direct import from New Zealand and from Lookout Point Ranch here in Oregon. :celebrate The Boer side is also a well known Boer blood line. The ranch has many...

:th So what have I gotten myself into. It's official, I am a Meat Goat 4H leader! I passed the background check! :D Wow. I got my packet today for fair, and there is so much to do. :th again........I need to figure out all kinds of things, like the little things that hang up over the pens, for...

I'm having a lot of trouble with the babies we pulled a couple of weeks ago, getting them to drink off the bucket. I swear they act like they are more than a little dense. They drink bottles fine, but I am trying to get them to drink off the bucket, but they will push so hard and ram their heads...

So I have 2 does left to kid. The lady I bought them from said June, sometime. SO this is June!:celebrate I took pics today but for some reason my computer is really slow, took forever to get on the forum today. And I sent the pics to my email and they're not there yet. The does are 3, and...

I am looking at a couple of doelings to buy, registered ABGA. I need to replace some of the does we lost yesterday. These doelings are out of a doe that is similarly bred like our buck, Remington. The doelings mother is by Outback Boer's Scorpio's Stinger. Her dam does not appear to have any...

Well, feeding grain has become a pain in the keester here at my place now, with so many goats. :rolleyes: I keep the babies on free choice Developer, and am getting ready to start graining the does again as most are going to fair. One of the shelters has a long grain feeder INSIDE the barn...

Ok, I mentioned a few weeks ago that we had bought twin yearling does, and that one had turned out to be pregnant. Well, this morning, out of the blue, she had a beautiful buckling! She didn't have much of a bag yet so I didn't think she was quite ready yet. But when I went out to feed, I heard...