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Ohh Boers have long floppy ears and from the looks of them, very stocky. One of my cousins sons has Boers in Billings MT and he does very well with selling for meat. I would think that if your girl has Boer in her, she might have more airplane ears, but then again I am not sure about Boers...

we are very limited as to what we can get here--usually alfalfa cubes-no we don't soak them, but if they are in really big chunks, I break them in half. Some people have had goats choke on them, we haven't had any problems. Price of alfalfa cubes now runs about $16.00 for a 50 lb bag, I did...

lactating dairy goats need a calcium/ phosphurus (sp?) rate of 2/1 or heavy milkers 3/1, Grains, sweet feed etc have the phosphurus, so to balance it one should have hay or supplement with high calcuim--I think I lost does to milk fever in the beginning, I don't know because I was new to goats...

Look for someone in your area for advice--different areas and climates have different needs. You will need alfalfa for them about 100 days before kidding when you start grain. For good milking you will want alfalfa--personally if I can get alfalfa, that is all I will get--but there again, we...

we found that 10 goats--half are minis--but 2nd gen, so the size of a yearling Nubian, free fed on a 1500lb big round bale grass hay a month, usually longer. We had a long, hard winter here. thats what I plan for. I bought for 18 months, thinking we could get more, but the person we bought...

spraying around our yard made a big differnce--no didn't knock them out completely, but did help a lot. I think the dishwashing liquid was soapy enough to coat them. We found that the bounce thing didn't work at all--and as far as mice were concerned, the mice used the bounce sheets for a...

We also use one of those 3 gallon hand pump sprayers--with the ingredients added to water.

My recipe calls for a few drops of a citrus dishwashing liquid- and a citrus Listerine. works well for us.

glad she is doing better--yes she has to have something else in her, I am thinking with the coloring--maybe Saanan--I agree if she was Nubian/ Boer cross, she shouldn't have airplane ears. Watch how quickly you introduce new foods--so you don't throw their system into shock. Carolyn

from what I understand, mozzeralla should be made from early lactation milk--so that is all I have used--a little bit a garlic helps a lot. I am anxious to try farmhouse cheese, if I ever get enough milk. Someone on one of my groups also put pepperflakes in the mozzeralla, I haven't tried...

You make perfect sense to me--difficult decisions to make--my thoughts are with you--Carolyn

DGC == Dear Grand Children--- they used to love string cheese, this is about the same thing. Also farmhouse cheese and make some Cajeta (caramel) to go on the ice cream---Elmhaven site has some good recipes. I myself don't find mozzeralla that great--its ok, but it really doesn't have a...

DGC love it ---Carolyn

goats milk makes good mozzeralla also. Carolyn

She might not be ready for breeding for a year --got to be at least 80lbs, no one knows what will happen--I sure wouldn't go back to them for another goat- personally I don't think they know what they are doing. 4 weeks is way to young to wean--in my opinion. Ginger is a cute name. Have a...

I didn't understand the owners letting her go so young to be weaned. Good luck, keep us posted.

Found it--how is she doing? Carolyn

I was looking for the new posts about the little girl--how is she? She was young to be weaned--did I miss something somewhere. Carolyn

One of my brothers had a double hernia when he was 16, now he said he as another one at age 53. My ex had that kind of hernia, my mother had the belly button hernia surgery 2 times and my sister had hernias, I have incisional herias--one of them an emergency, but my kind of hernias are...

ooh, pretty color. Carolyn