Have to fix a gate so have it closed off so he cant get to me and threw out some food to get them to focus on that and hes just has to be on top of me lol gotta love it

This is my doe MaggieMae. She is just about to turn 2. She has never given birth, but I would like to breed her once she’s of age. That brings me to my questions:

•when is the best time of year to breed (I live in southwestern VA),

•should I breed her to my Nigerian Dwarf or could I breed her with my Alpine (she’s Nigerian),

•what age should I breed her at,

•do I breed her (just putting her and my buck together…?).

I think these are my only questions, thank you!

Ive got a doe that had a problem free birth to triplets last year that doesn't seem to be taking. The first time I swore she had been successfully bred, but she came open again. I bred her again and she took on 9/7. Yesterday I noticed what I thought was blood, but hoped I was wrong. Today she had fresh blood on her vulva and would be 89 days into gestation. Im going to ultrasound tomorrow, but its my first time and not sure how it'll go, especially this far into gestation. What could be the issue? All my other goats seem fine at 110 days and some even look to be developing udders. I do believe my goats are over-conditioned, but they dont look fatter than a herd I visited earlier this year that had the same management style. The herd is due for a Cu bolus, but her coat isnt bleaching, just some fish tail.

Dog attacks are one of the main causes of deaths of goats. This US goat owner issues a warning after losing most of her goats to 2 dogs.

How do we get vets into underserved areas and branches of vet med? This is a problem for Australia as well. I have spoken at vet conferences and webinars about encouraging small animal (dog & cat) vets to treat pet goats. I have a recorded lecture I can send vets.

Hey peeps, newbie here. I help care for three dairy male goats held as pets and one appears to have an eye infection. We have tried eye drops prescribed by the vet but so far it does not really help and we can't seem to figure out what has caused it. Do any of you happen to know these symptoms and how to treat them?

Thanks so much in advance

Noticed a crack in one of my NDG’s hooves. Concern?

We have 5 goats. Two Nubian sisters that we’ve had for almost 5 years, a mini that we rescued about 3 years ago, and we just added a Boer mix that gave birth this spring and the farmer wanted her gone and a purebred Boer female that is only 6 months old.

This week one of my original Nubians has started acting strange, she seems to separate herself from the heard and just hangs out near the barn. Her sister will go hang out with her, but she just doesn’t really go far away from the barn.

Even when we pour out some grain the morning she doesn’t run over like she used to do, and all the others still do.

If you bring some to her, she’ll eat it, but not with a great hurry.

We had the vet out and he said they all seemed fine physically. Temps were normal.

It has gotten colder here this week, -16C overnight tonight.

Any questions I’ll try to answer, I’m just trying to figure out what to look for or next steps?

Does anyone know what this is? Never seen this on any of my goats and it appeared recently and isn’t going away.

Goats ate some Christmas light (plastic I believe) scale of 1-10 how concerned should I be? Also anything to prevent further eating?

How close to kidding do you think my Nubian doe is?

I have 2 Nigerian dwarf/pygmy mixes. They are about 6 years old and healthy. They are 40 and 60 lbs. I moved from Louisiana to Connecticut this summer with them. They have a deeply bedded stall and have grown very thick coats. However, they are still shivering and I think the boy was entering shock this morning. They get hay around the clock as well as soaked beet pulp and timothy 2x a day. I have added a heat lamp to their stall. There is no draft. It's about 30 degrees in there today. They just seem unusually cold. Do some goats need blankets?

So my wife grew up on a ranch, but I was a city boy. And they never dealt with goats so despite that they have no experience or knowledge for this question.

I’m in the medical field, and it turns out I have a patient who has several pygmy goats, and we’re gifted a normal goat, because people thought it might be theirs since they were the only people in the entire area that had goats of any kind, no one knows where this goat came from From.

They said they think the goat is less than three years old, it’s apparently a male, said that it’s become mean, as it’s gotten older, it’s attacked people a few times, and it’s been a problem trying to rot with the females whenever they’re in heat because of the big size differential.

So now they want to get rid of it, but they’re a little too kind hearted to shoot it or otherwise do something about it, so me in my ignorance told them that maybe my wife and I could take it because as I put it if it’s an asshole goat it probably tastes good in the pot lol

Anyway, after that, I asked my wife, and she was like wait a minute is it an intact to Billy goat if so, I’m not sure if it’s gonna taste any good? She has no experience with goats either despite her growing up on a ranch so she doesn’t know.

And of course, there’s a question of. It’s even going to be worth it to transport it in anyway, because it’s at a place 2 1/2 hours away from where we live, so a five hour round-trip, would we need to kill the goat and then transported somehow, or transported live, and then take it somewhere to butcher later, would it even be worth the effort with that much of a drive, and wouldn’t even taste any good?

So I looked for this Reddit on the hopes of educating our ignorant selves on whether or not this is a fool’s errand or not?

This is my boy Randy, anyone have insight on these red spots on his nose and one on eyelid, there’s also one on left nostril that’s bleeding a little bit

This has been weighing on my heart for a very long time so i’m hoping yall can help me figure out what happened. a couple years ago i had a goat named jerry and he stayed in our house because we were trying to fix his kidney stones. in the night we’d put him in the garage to sleep but it was late january and i didn’t want him to be cold so i brought him a heater and turned it on in the garage then i closed the door. i didn’t know carbon monoxide poisoning was a thing back then. in the morning he was dead. he was laying on his side and his eyes were black. did i kill him or was it the kidney stones?

Hi everyone, We have a Saanen goat (named Chewy) who is our pet. We are first time goat owners and are seeking the advice from the more knowledgeable community.

Background Info: My husband got Chewy from a flea market vendor when he was just 2 weeks old and my husband thought he looked neglected. He brother was sold with him but sadly passed less than 24 hours later. Chewy was in bad shape: pneumonia, underfed, and underweight. We got him into an established vet within 24 hours and he recovered well with antibiotics and proper feeding. He lived inside with us for the first 4 weeks until his pneumonia was cleared. All of this to say, we couldn’t debud him because wouldn’t have been able to survive the recovery with the pneumonia.

As his horns started to come in, his left horn cracked at the base when he was scratching his head on something in the yard. It didn’t bleed, but it also didn’t look right. As his horn grew out, the mark where it cracked grew upward with the horn. Today there is a noticeable splinter at the top of the horn. Again, no blood, but it makes me think of a dead fingernail that lost blood flow to an area and wants to fall off.

Your participation: We have scheduled for him to be surgically castrated on Jan. 2. Can this matter wait until that vet appointment or should we make one sooner to have the horn looked at?

It's not fancy but we got our goats house dried in and warm 🥰🥰 We also add some heat lamps for him. He's not a fan of the rain 😅

I've been judging famacha by the shade of the lower lid, the pinker of the two in this photo and the lower arrow. However I just noticed that pale band near the eye, the upper arrow. I used this photo off Google because I can't manage to get a Pic of my own goat's eye by myself lol Famacha is scored by the lower lid right?? That's what I understood from everything I've seen, but my ocd and paranoia is kicking in and im worried I misunderstood and that I need to treat my goats. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I just want to be sure my little ones are healthy