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Cute babies. Of course, we bring baby goats in the house. Hubby isn't a real big fan, but he knows it's sometimes necessary.

Cricket's husband Like its been said if mama ain't happy no one is happy. But at least I am not the only with the babies running around. Yes I found a goat I like. Bethw. if i had a mud room I would be a happy camper thats better then the babies running around the house. And the wife agrees with you about the attached barn.

The other half (aka sucker)

Well your wife can't have all the fun, now can she? I have a dam raised kid in here with me now for socialization, as the dam is somewhat wilder.
HF

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The problem with this is that you can't then acclimate them to really cold weather like some of you can when they are not used to having to control their own body temps. If you bring them in, at least keep them in the coldest room in the house, so after you are back to only a couple bottles a day, or whatever reason you brought them in, they can go back out to the barn where they belong.

Babying baby livestock, where they are in the house, no fresh air, and no sunlight, no real room to bounce around out in the cold brisk air, simply doesn't raise healthy stock. Vicki

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Well I never ask I just do. The "farm things" are left totally up to me so I do what I want. He does however say I crossed some line when I bring livestock into the house, says it is embarassing and yet he tells people at work about it. Men can be odd.
I daily take any kids I might have in the house outside for sunshine, air, nibbling, and getting to meet and greet the big goats. Then once they are use to each other the kids stay out most of the day then they come screaming around the corner everytime they think it is bottle time or they want to come in for the night.



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2 Nubian doelings bouncing around under me currently and a Nubian buckling on the couch giving up the ghost due to the freezing temps we've been suffering through.


Our Prevention babies are started in the house for the first week and then moved to the barn. The house is only about 10-15 degree warmer than the barn, so not much of an acclimation.

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My bottle babies start in the house when it's cold out. Even when they move back out, if we have a cold night, in they come.

No husband so I don't have to ask.
I bring the kids in for the first week or two if its down in the teens or single digits. But they go in the back bathroom that rarely gets above 36*. Of course Boer kids and meat wethers stay on their dams from the first moment.

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Joan of Amberwood brings her babies in and takes them out right after bottle feeding to go potty, but then brings them back in. They do eventually go back out to the barn, but she does have them in for the first days of life.

LOL... hubby isn't here right now, but I'll have him post as soon as he gets back, but just between all of us...
IT WAS HIS IDEA TO BRING THEM IN! LOL! I was going to put them in the water room which is the equivalent to a very warm barn. LOL.. he's the sap of the family! heheheee

Cricket herself

We put in a new house last year, so the old house is used for storage and such. I have used the bathroom to keep the sick or "problem" kids or lambs. It has worked out good. I have it just warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. If they have hypothermia, I can use a heat lamp or heater. Works out great for me. DH didn't mind too much when I had to bring them into the house when we were living in it, he really is a push over for the animals.

this post really made me grin. such sweeties.

i let the dogs out tonight and i heard beh beh BEH on the carport. poked my head outside. two goats right there, just waiting patiently for me to let them back in the gate. lol. it was dark and cold and i wasnt' up to hassling with the gate in the pitch black. so instead of going across and around and down and over, etc. i opened up the kitchen door and we tramped across the lvingroom and out to the side porch. lol. it took only ten seconds instead of ten minutes the other way. so, my goats were in my house this very evening, but only as ships passing in the night.

the temps here get in the teens and mine don't seem to mind it. they don't like the wind, but the cold they seem to shrug off. none of the babies has ever lived inside.

i eat mine, though, so maybe there is less tendency to want them inside. lol. but i did spend an hour sleeping in my billygoat shed his first night it snowed a year ago to make sure it wasn't too cold and then just ate him this past week. so i guess i'm sort of both ways.

Well, I bring all my bottle babies in the house for the first 2-3 days. They're in a cardboard box and don't do much but eat and sleep. This lets me monitor them closely until they are big enough to regulate their body temp and fight those mean 6 day old kids

I had another house-goat this year, though. My sucky neighbors had bought a sale barn pygmy with some contagious pneumonia-like disease. He promptly escaped into my pasture and spread his disease to my does. So my does were passing around this infection when this doeling- the daughter of my best milker- was born. There was no way she was going anywhere near the barn until this infection had run it course.

So she ended up in the house for six weeks. She was potty trained and slept on the bed, with the cats, at night.

Because I'm a softie, I'd let her back in the house on Sunday afternoons while I watched Antiques Roadshow. She'd snuggle and fall asleep while I watched TV.

4 months old in this pic...

AnnaS...that is amazing

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We had twenty five below zero (and that's NOT wind chill, but actual temp) here two mornings last week, and the kids that were only a day or two old did fine. (I kept a heat lamp out there for them as they were BORN into near zero temps...)

We do bring them in if the mother won't take care of them and they are too small or unable to survive out in the cold without a buddy. Last year we had three in....so far this year just one. When the weather gets temperate for a while I try to acclimate them to the outdoors gradually but as quickly as possible and they do fine.

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