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My family lost relatives in the 1918 flu epidemic--I am not in a panic, but always prepared for everything and anything--one doesn't know what can come, I think we are in for a bad one also--jsut the nature of things---I feel that if you snooze, you lose. I keep track of the new flu, not to...

Oh what sometimes works for us is to get them to suck on a finger, then slip the bottle in the mouth. If it is a new nipple, the nipple is hard, so she may chew on it for a while, cause it isn't at all like mamas equipment. if she can get her tongue in the right shape to take the nipple...

It will be hard to get her to take a bottle--but it is better for them. the kids I keep basically wean themselves. Last fall, the three kids I had--my little buck was one of them weaned themselves hmm probably at about 4 months, maybe close to 5 months, bottle once a day at that time. Goats...

When you consider a buck, be sure you get something that has good milk lines behind him--I know that Nigerian Dwarf is Dairy--I am not sure if I am right, but I think that Pygmy is a meat goat although there are people that say their Pygmies are good milkers. When times get tougher-- and it...

check out Echo Hills Farm and Green Gables for to see some nice mini Nubians. My girls came from Hearts N Dixie--she doesnt' have her website up any longer, but the orginal stock came from Echo Hills Farm and she bought Godiva, Cookie Boy and Indian Boy from Marla at Hearts N Dixie. I have...

Minis are a Nigerian Dwarf bred to a full sized doe. A pygmy buck bred to a Nubian doe is a Kinder. I have no idea what any other breed that a pygmy breeds is called. That was a good idea to sit, visit and watch the goats for a while. I had Kinders one year when my brothers pygmy came up...

LOL Have you decided to get the Togg buckling? When I started out with Dairy goats, I grabbed every Dariy goat I could find and sometimes I would come home and there would be extra goats in my pen :rolleyes:. I probably got all the "bad eggs" = result, all these problems. I now watch what...

yep, did the pvc or stick thing taped to the horns--turned into another weapon---don't know why the horned goats in this area are soo darn crazy, healthy goats just agressive with horns. I have heard that horns should be left on fiber goats, mine had the horns on, but the big black cashmere...

Yes horns are great as handles, but ever had a horn hooked in an udder and rip it? or have a goat lose an eye because of horns? or have a horned goat catch a knee of another between the v of the horns and twist and twist until the leg is mangled at the shoulder? Coming home to a horned goat...

Oh we have 52" high welded fencing and cattle panels. I don't know about Toggs--only had 1 doe and she had horns, nice to people, but baaaaad attitude towards the other goats with her horns.--She left right away to a dairy and they removed her horns. I have only had about a dozen...

smell of buck never bothers us either, except my DIL--she almost pukes when she smells a buck. I am really careful to be sure that the goats I buy now are CAE and CL free--to me that is very important and NO HORNS!!!!!! had goats both ways and NO HORNS!!!! I have found it better to keep at...

I don't know what the answers are, I have decided that I need to take care of my own-- We are prepared for a rocky rocky road, which is paying off for us now as DS was laid off and jobs are hard to find. His family is doing ok but only because we are prepared. Carolyn

What is she fed? Alfalfa hay or pellets? She is giving up her calories to milk, we add beet pulp, a few black oil sunflower seeds (boss) and a little calf mana or something similiar to oats. I think it is 1 lb of feed for every 2 lbs of milk she produces--guys am I right here? We...

Oh I do have a horse also:D. He is a paint gelding and I think part percheron. :D. I do love my horse as well. Carolyn

What kind of goats do you have? It also depends on the individual goat--some goats don't have as much, but we always have some cream on top. Some say it depends on feed as well as breed. With Bettys milk, we were using a friends separator. The tea jar does work, but of course the separator...

ohh pretty goat here a few of my goats DGS #3 with Mini Apache and the buck Jac Apache DGS #3 at age 2 1/2 milking--"me milk" he says and put her in the stand and gives her grain, can't completely milk them out yet, but he sure tries.:) oh this is at 12 months fresh Picture of...

Oh I am not scared of spending, we live like we always have, very simple--DS got laid off and don't know if they will be able to stay in their house. DD 1's place of employment cut their people in half--I think they are going to close completely, DD 2 was let go because things were slow and...

I don't know what will happen. Personally I think it will get worse before it gets better, but I think part of the problem is that a lot of people are not used to cutting back and don't think they can go without or have no clue what it is to really cut back. My mother was born in 1924, one...

Ohh just me again--:rolleyes:. moldy bad hay will produce bad tasting milk in a cow as well as a goat. We have had big round bales for 18 months and if put up in good shape, remains in good shape, we have covered it some of it with tarps, but that didn't seem to make a differnce in the inside...

You can get cream from goats milk if you take a tea jar with a spigot, make sure is is spotlessly clean, bacteria will cause a goaty flavor. Let the milk sit for a couple of days in the frig and watch for the cream to rise, some take it cold from the fridge, but others let sit on counter for...