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And thank you Southern! It's good to be back. Been a busy summer around here! I'm looking forward to cool weather and the bears denning up for winter. I'll probably be shooting for a female Pyr in the spring. I'd love to get a sister of Emmett since he's been such a great dog. I'll have to...

He is 3 now. My baby is growing up! He marks anything and everything!

My lovely boy Emmett is a fabulous guardian dog. He lives with goats and chickens and loves them all. What he doesn't love is black bears and we have problems with them very frequently. What I'm learning is that Pyrs really do NOT back down, even against enormous bears, who also do not back...

I have two ND doelings, 6 weeks old. Their mother is polled and their father is unknown. I've assumed all this time that they're both polled as they haven't grown horns. Now at 6 weeks one has what seems like little horns starting to come up. I've always been under the impression that their...

Thanks! It finally came out a little bit ago. I had tied it up this afternoon so it wasn't dragging and I think the weight helped ease it out. It was almost out when I checked her and I applied some very GENTLE weight while the kid nursed and it came right out. Now I can relax and fully enjoy...

My alpine doe, who I wasn't totally sure was pregnant, kidded a single doeling yesterday afternoon about 3pm. Lilly was as big as a house and bred to my Nigerian buck, so I was quite shocked she only had one kid. The birth was text book and she's being a great mama. Baby was up and nursing...

Emmett and Pippi the Nigerian Dwarf doeling.

Thanks everyone! :D I truly feel blessed to have him. It's not been without challenges and frustrations, but that comes with the territory with any animal. He is a great LGD for sure :)

Heres a few more of my boy :love Because I just need to show him off! He's a great kidsitter and loves my little half blind baby Pippi! :D His gentleness and attentiveness to his goats truly awes me, easily amused maybe :idunno And then his fierceness toward and threats or percieved...

Thanks for all the replies and encouragement. The eye seems a bit better today and she is more perky too. She'd look totally adorable in a lil eye patch! Lol

Well her eye is severely ulcerated from some type of injury it looks like :( The vet feels that her listlessness is due to pain from the ulcer. No sign of infection, her lungs are clear and besides the eye and being very small she looks just fine. The prognosis for the eye isn't great, eyes...

Thanks! We're on our way to the vet. She's only 2 pounds so I'm pretty nervous about treating her myself.

Don't think I have any vitamin B :( I do have pen G, wonder if I should give her a round of that. She only weighs 2lbs. She was nursing good last night. Edited to add she definitely wants nothing to do with a bottle.

My one week old doeling is not doing so well today. She's had a goopy eye for a day or two and I've been cleaning it and applying Vetericyn. It's not getting any better. Her lashes are outside so I don't think her lid is turned in. Her actual eye itself seems clouded over like she could be blind...

That is coming soon anyway Southern! Once we finish fencing our 12 acres! And really, the bear and coyote population is quite large round these parts! Plus we'll have goats on two hillsides separated by a steam, obviously we need an LGD for each side! :celebrate Ohhh Puppy breath! :drool

Ya know, come to think of it, I have been considering some stronger dairy lines! :bun Whew, excellent advice! :D I knew I could count on BYH! :clap

I'm interested in the replies. My NDs are very small framed and on the lower end of the breed standard size. I have a friend who's NDs are at least as big as my Alpines and much heavier bodied. She says they're very "dairy". The bigger the goat the more milk capacity, correct? But isn't the...

Our two pregnant does have kidded. Everyone is healthy and wonderful and adorable. :love We have no one else expecting (that I know of) and no breedings planned until fall. Kids will be sold in a few weeks. I feel strangely empty :hit and slightly nervous that I might do something rash! Like...

Thanks for the color info! Both girls are now nursing on their own and boy are they little screamers! They seem so tiny to me! Like breakable tiny. One weighs 2lbs on the dot, the other 2lbs 2oz. I can't help but worry, however they're up n down and nursing like crazy. Mom has lots of milk...

Southern, I'm very glad to hear that! My ND doe has been kicking her boy off since about 4 weeks and I've worried she isnt a good mother. He's fat ad sassy and honestly so rough nursing on her that I can't blame her! He's going in with the boys with in the next couple days. Glad to know its...