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  1. Goats
    Hello all, new member here. We’re in the process of building our home right now and are just planning our gardens and livestock. Our lot is 1.1ac of mature oak forest near Winnipeg MB. So far our plan is to fence in more or less the entire property, and will end up with about 1/3-1/2 acre worth...
  2. Goats
    Hi, I'm new so I don't exactly know how this works but if anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it. I have a doeling (about 6 months old) fall into our water trough today. I have no idea how long she was in there and couldn't get out. I could tell she was extremely tired; it took her 15...
  3. Goats
    1. We got some Nubian kids, they're weaned and the people we got them from was feeding them 12% west feed from rural king. We don't live close to a rural king, so we got tsc sweet feed but they're not eating it very well. 2. We got a buckling with them and need to know how soon the doelings need...
  4. Guard Animals
    I got a livestock guardian puppy to protect our goats, not really understanding how to train them. I unfortunately paired him up with our friendly Rhodesian Ridgeback/German shepherd mix, who never attacked our animals before, but is very prey-driven. Unfortunately the Rhodesian Ridgeback mix...
  5. Real Estate
    We've worked really hard this past year to transform a vacant property into a working wool ranch. Unfortunately, our plans have had to change. Our hope is that we find someone who is passionate about the ranch to take it over. Price: 120k, will carry Acreage: 40 Location: Saint Johns, AZ...
  6. Goats
    I need help! I have 3 separate shelters in my doe pen, but they only seem to want to pile into the smallest shelter. They don’t all fit hence why we have 3 in there, but they all try to squeeze in. We have lost a few goats due to being smothered by the others and I am unsure how to fix this. All...
  7. Goats
    My goats have recently started eating wood, so I concluded that the feed they were getting did not contain enough calcium. The problem is, the new mineral we got for them (which contains enough calcium) they won’t eat much of it. They ate a little bit when we first put it in, but haven’t touched...
  8. Homesteading Questions
    Hi I am in a terrible situation and either have to get rid of my sweet goat or dehorn him. We have to make this decision soon because he is beating up one of my original goats and it is causing her not to get better from being sick. He is a couple years old so his horns aren’t little. I really...
  9. Homesteading Questions
    Hi! My goat Ace we rescued from a rescue and all the goats fight a lot and when we got him he can’t seem to stop fighting my other goats. My other goats don’t have horns and he does. We think it is causing one of my goats to loose hair because she is so stressed. We are down to two very hard...
  10. Homesteading Questions
    Our big semi wild (have been working with him but still barely touchable without treats) Beautiful Buck has somehow ruptured his eye. We wrangled him to the vet last night and they are saying it needs to come out or else it will be prone to repeated infection. Does anyone have any experience...
  11. General Chat
    i just bred my goat ! its to soon to tell if she took, she was suppose to spend the weekend with the buck but the next day was screaming and running away from the buck, so got called to come get her. fingers crossed ! if shes bred , her due date is june 1st. but we all know due dates are just...
  12. Goats
    would you run one cow calf pairing in a pasture with 3 goats? Should I rotate pasture even though there aren’t many animals? If this was you how would you rotate the pasture? I’m unsure how to divide the pasture and how often to move the animals
  13. Goats
    I have searched the internet far and wide for the answer to this question but ive been getting nothing... is there any way that does can line up their due dates and time births to happen at the exact same time? Kinda like how if women live together for a long enough time their periods will stay...
  14. General Chat
    if you read any of my other posts.. then you know i struggle with my neighbors.... if you dont feel like looking for my other posts.. here is summary . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(go to the next line like this if you already...
  15. Homesteading Questions
    Hello I’m looking for some advice on what breed of buck I should get for my does. I have 2 Nigerian dwarfs 1 La Mancha and 1 Nubian! I was kinda leaning towards the Nigerian so I would have 2 does that would have pure breed kids but not sure if there is another that would be more profitable.
  16. Goats
    Recently bought a little billy, whom I think had urinary issues to begin with. He peed all over me when I got him home and I noticed a small amount of swelling to his sheath. Anyway...fast forward two days later, he's at the vet. It's determined he has a urethra that has burst. Vet says from...
  17. Goats
    Actually , im getting 2. both are Nigerian dwarf goats , one is an adult, and the other is one of her doeling. i just got to wait till her buckling is weened off of mama before i can go pick them up. EXCITED! i still got to go pick up the stuff for them, bedding , food, water and food buckets...
  18. Goats
    I've had two LaMancha goats for the past 5-6 years and a while back one of them started producing milk, she had never been bred we got them as babies. Both of their bags looked full and I got milk from one. Is that normal for LaManchas? And would it be safe to drink the milk?
  19. New Member Introductions
    Just bought a homestead in Duvall, WA (literally just in time to get out of Bellevue where the majority of Washington Covid-19 cases are). We're on a 14 acre lot (10 of which is forested / Native Growth Retention Area). We're just getting our garden setup for a variety of crops (tomatoes...
  20. Goats
    I’m new to the whole livestock and homesteading thing in general so I wanted to get a pet goat and I got a dwarf goat at the age of 2 months and felt bad that he was alone so my neighbor (the other tenant of the duplex I live in on this land), he decided to get a female 2 months as well this was...
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