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She’s not sick, heathy weight, good famacha, acting good, screams herself hoarse for her bottle in the afternoon. If it matters her eyes are blue. It’s a clear discharge and it’s dries a yellow color. It’s not excessive and it’s not crusting her eyes shut or anything. It doesn’t cause her pain but I have to gently wipe it off with wet fingers or a rag/paper towel. She’s 13 almost 14 weeks old and is probably one of the best goats I have.

We have a bunch of pine trees and we have a Bradford pear tree and all kinds of locus and oak trees lining the property. Is she just maybe allergic to something? She is one of them goats that just shove their head into the hay and deal with consequences later, is she just irritating her eyes by eating hay? I love this little demon (she’s a master con artist at getting yummy snacks it’s like puppy eyes for goats)

This approx 2 1/2 year old Nigerian dwarf doe had twins, we retained her doe and had her buckling spoken for by someone else before her doe kid passed away to drowning in a stock tank.

She is around 12 weeks fresh, and her buckling went to his new home yesterday. I milked her as much as i could without a stanchion in the 90+ degree heat index. I waited until sunset to milk her today as the heat in the barn was so unbearable that it would’ve just been torture to do it midday. She was so incredibly full of milk that her kicking at me because she finished her food made milk spray everywhere.

Any advice is welcome I’ve never had to dry off a doe with milking as the only doe we had got to naturally wean her kids and I milked off the excess once week until she was mostly dry. I’m scared for her to get mastitis since I really love this doe. She loves to cuddle when it’s cold out.

We found him when I was a sophomore in high school and since then I’ve graduated. We decided to keep him since he’s kinda funny and pretty cute. It was for sure a learning curve finding what he does and doesn’t like.

He flew down from the top of a shopping cart holder in a Walmart parking lot. He didn’t have any kind of identification or leg band so we couldn’t return him to wherever he came from but he was clearly domesticated.

He is for sure a male as he does coo, and tried to impress white socks 💔 and doesn’t lay any eggs or act feminine. (Feel free to correct me though as I’m not any expert) I want to get him a friend and I want to make sure it’s the right species for him to have a proper companion.

I feel like he is a dove but I’m not sure anymore. He is also pretty lazy.

She got copper bolus in February, unless she was able to spit it out. She’s in good health and is a momma. Can I chalk it up to conflicting hair texture along with shedding weird? It’s not falling out and it’s about as soft as her mom’s who also has a slightly wirery puffy texture to her coat.

Things she gets daily include
•free minerals (several different types offered 24/7 it’s inside with lights on 24/7 since some of them are scared of the dark lol) they get [purina wind and rain] [sweetlix meat maker] and very soon will be getting [Manna pro goat mineral with AC in it for the wethers]
•good hay
•she gets grain/hay pellets since she is lactating
•evening pasture time with the rest of the herd (they are a bunch of turds and found a area they can get out on the fence line and have to be let out closer to late noon so they don’t go into the neighbors back yard to then get into our back yard)

Her father was a long haired myotonic non fainting poorly behaved buck. He was one of them goats that just got worse the longer you knew him. I put what little pictures I have of him last. He’s the all white yucky looking fellow.

She was severely malnourished as a kid since she didn’t want a bottle/and wouldn’t take one. So we just had to have two to three people hold down her momma a few times a day for several weeks until she was eating grain good.

Do I have an ugly duckling goat or just one that still needs a little extra something?

I, in my forgetful nature put eggs in an incubator and didn’t write down dates the second time around since the incubator killed the first batch due to every single one of the embryos getting stuck to the shell and dying shortly afterwards. (Little giant incubators suck so bad).
It also had a bad humidity reading 24/7 and the temp was constantly off since I did have a secondary thermometer to shove in there. (At one point there was literal water droplets on the top and i had little faith anything survived)

This egg is alive I think as I saw it moving around the other day but I need to know an approximate day. I know it’s due to hatch anytime from now to the 21st of the month, June 14th was supposed to be the designated hatch day for the first set of eggs.

I was adding eggs for the first week because my chickens lay their eggs on the floor and the dogs usually get to the eggs before we can. Now almost all of those ones that I added with that one are dead. Ps I switched incubators after the water droplets on the top, I was fed up with it, it killed every possible embryo I could’ve threw in there.

Also if you think this is dead let me know I just wanted to atleast give it a chance to hatch out if it could.

I’m trying to estimate age on a goat, I believe she’s over 4 but under 10 for sure or she’s just a really hardy healthy goat.

Some basic examination notes I’ve made about her

•she has a pretty curly coat mostly around her front half; she’s got cute little mutton chops on her cheeks

•her shoulder blades are WEIRD; it grossed me out the first time I felt them, I can fit my finger between the soft muscle at the top of her shoulder. (Don’t know if that has to deal with age or not or if it’s an old injury; it has no affect of impact on her gait though)

•her horns grew weird this year; it’s noticeably thinner than before but she did not have access to proper minerals for over a year before she was in our possession (I was able to see her before then due to her belonging to a family member who I visited and house sat for many times)

•she is missing one of her front teeth (as seen in first picture where she has a loose lip lol) ;I can get pics tomorrow when I redo our fly and tick regimen since the ticks are starting to get on them again.

•she’s quiet, more kept to herself, and is clearly a expert mother. Her 9month old doe kid is fat healthy and still occasionally nurses. She also is pretty good about taking younger goats under her wing and teaching them to be trusting of people.

We have 12 chicks, only 4 of them were “true” pullets/premium pullets the first Orpington is 100% a little roo, and so is the RIR I’m holding. we’ve had them close to 10 weeks and some already had feathers coming in when we picked them up from the store so give or take 11 weeks old.

4 production reds (pullets)
2 buff Orpingtons (straight run)
2 RIR (straight run)
4 production Blues (premium pullets)

I’m seriously second guessing myself on some of the pullets but I may be crazy or over thinking it. The grey/brown ones will fight each other like they are boys.
The picture with a white arrow pointing to the supposed pullet has very silky pointed feathers coming in on the tail closest to the tip of the tail, which I know can happen in hens but I didn’t think it would show up this young to be honest.

We did straight run because we need a new rooster; ours is good at what he does but he is overly aggressive towards the goats and a few select people since he wasn’t raised around them.

These bucklings were all so angry at each other yesterday

Does a buck have to be gross and disgusting to get the job done? And to follow that up what age should they start acting gross? I know Nigerians start to act like gross disgusting little freaks from around 10 weeks old

Hes a Spanish Boer cross and I know that both breeds are year round producers. This goat continues to prove time and time again that he doesn’t even know his own testicles exist.

He is very submissive, and does not challenge or do anything else that the other bucks/buck kids do. I don’t even think I’ve ever seen him extend himself to pee on himself ever.

He was housed with a much larger lamancha buck and a few wethers with more than enough space, but could the other larger buck make him afraid of acting like a true buck? I know that this theory is basically reaching for straws but is it possible at all?

He also hasn’t grown any of the typical traits that most bucks have (thick ridge of hair on the back/neck and general over hairy-ness) which makes me think low testosterone. Is that rare? Or common? I wouldn’t think so since he is fully dropped and I can feel that everything is most definitely connected and correct.

In my personal opinion this buck would be more useful as meat than as a breeding prospect but I’d like some other people’s opinions.

Same goat that I posted as before, its bump has grown just a tiny bit and has definitely migrated towards the surface of the skin. This is a 8 almost 9week old doe kid and she’s had this bump since she was about 4-5 weeks old.

it seems to be attached to an artery. For that thought alone I will not be lancing it unless the vet does it.

We have had CL on the property but it’s been contained in a totally different area where these goats don’t have access to. The infected goats were separated, culled and We have also burned the pen a few times.

When I examined it at first it was small and oval in shape, it’s now more circular but still oblong
It’s a bit squishy, but mostly firm. It’s not rock solid basically.
She is occasionally itching the spot with her hooves

She still nurses, eats, and drinks just fine. She’s non lethargic and is still gaining weight and still within good healthy condition.

Is it more than likely cl? Or would this be classified as too young?
There is also a very clear red tint to the abscess which I didn’t observe in the previous goats with CL when they had abscesses show up.

I’ve had thoughts on it being a wattle cyst but I don’t know. None of our other goats are symptomatic or are having lumps/bumps show up. We are getting her into the vet very soon, funds were tight for the past few weeks.

I saw this does doeling laying on her and just had to snap a picture

This would be my first ever baby goat death. This one had jumped up into a full stock tank today and drowned. I don’t even know why she was back there by herself near our horses. She would’ve had to slip through two sets of gates.
I don’t know if our horses startled her or were trying to stomp on her to make her want to jump into the trough. We keep our horses and goats separated since the horses have very mean attitudes towards smaller animals. Not even cats are safe from their attitudes.

I feel bad, but no matter what she would’ve been gone, it takes them seconds to drown and the only way we could’ve saved her was if we were standing right there when it happened.

Her mom has horns and her dad also has horns, I believe that the doe was bred to her sire but I’m unsure of that as the doe and her mom came over 1yr each with a buck they the lady said has bred them both before. But we are unsure of the dam of this kids parentage since the lady told us nothing about them or couldn’t remember.

Her twin brother has horns developing and another doe kid from the same sire that was born 3 days prior to this girl has prominent horn development as well. They are 1 month and a few weeks old, is that too early to be able to tell? Or could she just be a late bloomer horn growth wise?

Pics aren’t that great. We have a horned herd and don’t want anyone to get bullied for lack of horns, obviously in a few months if she still has no horns I’ll have my answer, but she’s very suspicious to me currently on wether or not she has horns.

Do we like this guy? He’s probably the best conformed male goats we own, he’s not cow hocked in the back like the two does he came with (unrelated to him) and he’s still quite young. He paired really well with our other does with better more solid frames and made some pretty good looking kids, the one severely cow hocked doe is a different story. Sheesh both of her kids have cow hocks to some degree, I won’t judge it too hard since I can’t even get them to stack up properly (they sit down or lay down all awkwardly.) (he is bald on his hind leg from going under the gate in the back, he figured out he could slip under and betray his friends to go eat weeds. It’s from him going back so many times a day for drinking and sleeping.)

Our local TSC put this stuff on the shelf about a month ago, (pic of what it has in it) but I can’t seem to get a non-pixelated picture of the back of the bag, it’s called farm to flock goat feed by Purina and I’m too lazy to dig through our barn trash to snap a picture of the back of the bag. Our goats devoured it like a pack a wolves every time it was offered. It seems balanced, but I’m not sure myself and I haven’t really went down a nutritional feed rabbit hole for goats yet. Basically is it worth buying another bag or is my money better spent on something better (I’ve been eyeballing a few different bags that I think would improve our goats overall conditioning).

These are supposedly Pygmy goats, but I’m not sure, if that’s even what they are they’re probably mixed given their colors and general appearance. Plus their height makes zero sense let alone the entirely white doe. Our Nigerian dwarfs are shorter than them…

Anyone got ideas? It’s obvious they are from some sort of meat breed lineage given their build and general large wide frames but they do strike me as being partial Pygmy’s if not true Pygmy’s. They will still be loved regardless.

the doe in the front has frostbite damage, both her and the white one have cute little wattles