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  1. StoneWallFarmer

    Talk to me about Pyrs, guarding habits and teams.

    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...
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    Talk to me about horns vs polled

    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...
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    Question about afterbirth.

    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...
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    Help! Sick week old doeling **vet update**

    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...
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    What is this empty feeling? :(

    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...
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    StoneWall Farms **Merida's** kidding thread...TWO DOELINGS!...Pics up!

    Here is Merida. She's a FF and was bred on the younger side, not by me. She's been losing ligs on and off for about a week now. They haven't come back today FINALLY and she seems to be having contractions. No goo yet though. Might be a long night for me! She is pretty wild, the only one of my...
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    I don't think my buck is getting the job done

    I have a Nigerian dwarf buck who I've bred to 4 diff girls now. 2 alpine does back in the fall and 2 ND does last month. The 2 Alpines never got pregnant and I attributed that to the size difference. Now my two ND does have come back into heat after being bred by him. I've kept track of heat...
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    Cutting back on grain in winter?

    My goats are getting to be VERY well conditioned as of late. The NDs get a handful of grain twice a day, the Alpines get two handfuls, twice a day. They also have free choice grass hay all the time. They're getting fat. Can I take them back to grain once a day? It's cold here, think teens...
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    2 week old buckling with scabs on his back.

    Hi all. I noticed two days ago that my little buckling Pete had a scab a on his back, around the top of his shoulder blade. Now he has more in the same area. He isn't losing hair and his skin doesn't seem dry or irritated, he just has scabs. Nothing abnormal around his mouth or face. He is...
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    StoneWall Farms **Shiloh's** kidding thread.. pics added

    My first kidding thread ever! Yay! My first kidding ever, SCARY!!:fl Shiloh is my 9 month old ND, NOT bred by me! She must've been accidentally exposed to a buck before we bought her :( She's been developing her udder for what feels like forever, probably about 6 weeks now. She doesn't seem too...
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    Killed a bear today...*pics added* **GRAPHIC**

    The poor guy was full of mange and starving. He was quite close to my fence line and would not be chased away. Thankfully my Pyr was inside the electric fence and didn't come in contact with the diseased animal. I'm pretty sure he's been hanging around for a couple days as Emmett has been...
  12. StoneWallFarmer

    My Alpines are CAH-RAZY!!

    I've got two Apline girls, Silly Lilly(very appropriately named!) and Olive. These two girls are totally nuts! Very hyper, very...umm, athletic. Think goat gymnastics! They were bottle babies, not raised by me and thy very "hands on" ... Or "hoofs on"? Lol This behavior is starting to get a...
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    Bad behavior when in heat? Little one getting beat up :(

    I have a 6mo ND doe who seems to be in heat, tail flagging, being vocal etc. The problem is with all my other goats, 5 other NDs and 2 Aplines. They are beating her up bad! :somad It got so bad last night that I brought her inside for the night. Took her back out this morning and sure enough...
  14. StoneWallFarmer

    Does udder development always = pregnancy....*pics added*

    I have a 6 month old nigerian dwarf doe who has recent begun to develop an udder. It is about the size of a softball and instead of her teats hanging straight they are pointing kind of outwards. She is quite wide also. Obviously, due to her age I do not want her to be pregnant. She was penned...
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    Goat on a diet? Pics added

    I just acquired my first Pygmy goat today. He is a wether and a companion to my ND buck. Henry is enormous, I mean enormously enormous! I know that pygmys can be quite rotund, but Henry is well over 100lbs. His previous owners were very generous with snacks and treats, sending bags of cookies...
  16. StoneWallFarmer

    Snotty nosed goat

    Hey all, new here although I've been an occaisional lurker for years. I've got two 6 month old alpine does. My first goats, yay!!! One of which has had a runny snotty nose since I purchased her a month ago. Olive's eyes are clear, appetite is great, very active(maybe a bit too much...
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