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Mary is now officially a GOAT!! :) She is now living in the barn full time with Masai and Breeze, the doe I thought was close to kidding. Looks like I was wrong about Breeze, but I think she's enjoying being in there where she doesn't have to compete for the grub and she doesn't seem to mind...

Since shortly after moving to Saskatchewan, our only vehicle has been a Ddoge 1/2 ton 4x4 extra cab long box. Great truck for farm work, but what a pain in the neck for just running around in. Anybody remember that song "Gimme 40 acres and I'll turn this rig around"? So I have been diligently...

The doe I thought was so close to kidding hasn't got down to business yet but, wow, is she a sweetheart. I said in an earlier post that she was putting up with Masai being in the barn with her, but this morning, she was actually letting him cuddle up to her. I went to give him his morning...

Masai is only a week old, so he was born in the warmer weather and has never been inside. He became a bottle baby because his mother has very severe mastitis. I actually bought her too, hoping I could treat her and have a good milking doe next year, but she is a total orangutan... wild as a...

Hi there. It's not hard at all to raise a bottle baby. Depending on the circumstances, it can be a bit of a challenge to get them onto the bottle, but once that's done, there's nothing to it at all. Most of my bottle babies never see the inside of the house. Mary was an exception, due to the...

A good friend of mine ended up with a bottle baby and no time to look after him. Since I'm off work for who-knows-how-long, I offered to take him off her hands. Lookie what I got!!!! His name is Masai, after the tall, regal looking tribesmen in Africa.

If it's the buck that's smaller, you won't have birthing issues. As for how much smaller he can be, people breed pygmy bucks to nubian does all the time. The resulting kids are called Kinders. The mating instinct is one of the most powerful forces in nature. If a doe is in standing heat and...

I love those topknots too. I call it the "Elvis look". :) And yes, he didn't smell because of the time of year. They don't usually get stinky till late summer, early fall and some are stinkier than others. With all that hair, you might find a Togg buck a little smellier. As for fencing him...

Free, I bought my buck first, then found the does I wanted that complimented him, so I've had bucks as long as I've had goats. Mind you, mine are Boer, so they're much more likely to go THROUGH a fence than over. I have had Nubian bucks, though too, and they never jumped my fences. However...

Okay, so now I'm confused. I got to see the test results from the biopsy done before the mastectomy and it clearly states this is a recurrence. According to my surgeon, if it was a recurrence I most likely wouldn't need chemo, but even my GP agrees that if the oncologist has ordered an...

You are certainly not the first to say this, but apparently, God wants me to go it alone because there's only one person close enough who is willing to help and he is a single man living with his elderly parents so he has to do all of his own farm chores as well. Nevertheless, both he and his...

Thank you. These are all wonderful. I also receive a great deal of comfort from the hymn "The Old Rugged Cross". It was my mother's favorite and when the world is quiet and still I can hear her thin, frail voice singing it softly. I came to my faith not too long after she passed away so she...

After talking with my surgeon, I was beginning to think I was going to get away with just the mastectomy, but it looks now like that was wishful thinking. I got a call from the cancer clinic. The oncologist who treated me last time wants to see me and the nurse said he'd ordered some tests. I...

Dace and Reinbeau, my thoughts are with you both.

Hi, MTN. As for feeding, yes, the requirements for a dairy goat are different than a meat goat...at least, when they're milking anyway. For a dairy goat, you want good quality hay and a grain ration that's formulated for dairy animals. Most feed stores would carry a dairy ration for cattle...

If you're talking about just a "loafing area" for them to hang around in at night and on days when you can't be there to supervise their grazing/browsing, you could probably get away with a fairly small area, maybe as little as a couple hundred square feet, but keep in mind that goats waste feed...

So, surgery on Thursday, get home on Friday and Saturday morning, all the goats from the barnyard were milling around the front yard. :ep Thankfully, all it takes is a bucket of pellets to get that gang to go where you want 'em. We had to fix the gate first, then I kept the goats at bay while...

Trust me, I was already pretty miserable by the time she discovered it. :(

OMG, Cybercat, your OR experience must have been horrible! I can't imagine what that would have been like. As for your biopsy, I'll be praying for you. Hang in there.

The best!! :weee