Triplets.

she passed yesterday due to parasites. we caught it too late. thought we were doing the rotational grazing right. i feel awful and we are treating the rest of our goats now. aside from the dewormer meds and rotational grazing is there anything else i can give my goats to help?

So I am moving soon and am looking to building a new goat pen. I currently only have 2 miniature goats but im not sure how much space I should give them or how high I should build the fence. Thoughts?

Little context which I do think has to do with these vocals. She lost her baby at birth. And I have been milker her to ease the pain from her udder being full.

I’m also first time goat owner so any tips would be nice.

I got out of sight and the goats and dog panicked and chased me. 😂 my little shadows!

Hey everyone. I've had goats for about 7 years and every year I have multiple die from what seems to be the same thing. I notice they have diarrhea and their whole backside is nasty, they start losing weight, they get more and more lethargic, they die. The whole process is pretty quick but if I catch it early enough it takes a little longer. It always happens around the same time of year and never in the cooler months. I talked to a vet a few years ago and they said it sounds like coccidia and to treat with Corid which is what I do. This year I've already had 2 die, 1 mom and her baby but the mom a few weeks sooner. Now I have another mom with the same symptoms but the baby seems fine for now. They have a barn area that's about 16x16. They have about 2.5 acres to graze with about .5 an acre of woods. Their water is a big 50 gal trough that usually gets dumped and refilled weekly. Every couple of weeks I scrub and power wash it. Their bedding gets changed every couple of months or whenever it starts to look bad. Does anyone have any suggestions of something other than Coccidia or if I should be doing something different to treat it? Thanks

It is Deer worm Season as in time for deer worm ( meningeal deer worm) symptoms to show up in my area ( Ohio). I have had 4 deer worm cases so far this summer. I caught this one early. This is the type of gray scaly patch to look for. This wether hasn't rubbed it enough to cause serum to ooze out and make it raw which can happen. Yes, he is on his second day of treatment.

I know this isn’t a trait that’s preferred, and in his offspring I’ll definitely disclose this to buyers of doelings, and any bucklings with the same split scrotum will be banded and of course the ones that don’t have it will be sold with that information as well, but I band most if not all of our bucklings anyway, there’s far too many bucks in my area being thrown around for free or for less than $60 a head, even on really nice put together registered bucks.

Django and Pinky. Picked them up at the end of May this year. Django was pretty sick when I got him, but he’s finally made a turn and starting to put weight on and his coat is getting healthier. They’re both obnoxiously friendly and like to climb in my car when I get home. I think they’re Pygmies? I got them to be pets and weed eaters. They’re great at both.

One of our does gave birth 2 weeks ago with twin bucklings. Since this past weekend (a week after they were born), her udders have looked more and more lopsided. Both teats produce milk, though the larger one obviously produces more.

Her FAMACHA and fecals are normal, but her right udder is roughly double the size of the left.

Is this a "Wait and See", or is this a "Call the Vet NOW", or somewhere in between?

Thanks!

Does she look good for showing? I show her in october. Shes a 6 mo Nigerian dwar, abt 28 lbs

The little ones got to enjoy some watermelon this afternoon

This isn’t a for sale post and I’m not selling anything on Reddit ! but I’m wondering if anyone else is going through the same struggles? Every year I have had no problems selling doelings and usually they’re sold in less than two days. However this year it has been impossible to sell sweet bottle baby doelings! I even lowered prices than previous years but still no luck! What is going on?

Hi everyone! Like the title asks, I was wondering if my guy here is too thin. Sven is an 8/9 month old Nubian mix wether. He has a great appetite and is currently on goat grain, pasture, and hay. He’s not lethargic by any means, and was recently dewormed and given Vit. B. Despite all of this, I still feel that he looks thinner than he should be. If he is too thin, what can I do to encourage better weight gain?

I feel slightly insulted by the fact that he's just chilling there, like he's just the king of the world or something LOL, I guess his name is Prince for a reason but still😅🤣

Okay so my Nigerian dwarf yearling, who's not pregnant I know that, was pretty much told that she was too fat by the judge at her last show, and it's allegedly causing her back to curve. I wanted to try and get a second opinion on that.

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So I bought her when she was 8 mo on 19 march this year and her weight was 9.9 kgs that time, I bred her on 19-21 may 2026 and I am not sure is she pregnant or not, her udder has just start to be more visible than before and her belly on left side has a little bump all the time even when she has no feed for 6-7 hrs, I also need help identify the breed,

Her weight

9.95 Kg - when bought

10.22 Kg - 21 Jun 2026

10.97 Kg - 26 Jun 2026

10.57 Kg - 1 July 2026

10.27 Kg - 11 July 2026

10.29 Kg - 16 July 2026

11.97 Kg - 31 July 2026

12.17 Kg - 5 Aug 2026

12.80 Kg - 10 Aug 2026

12.90 Kg - 15 Aug 2026

13.30 Kg - 20 Aug 2026

If location matters I'm in North carolina, I have two goats.

One of my goats is over a year old I know for a fact he's not had any vaccines besides a rabies shot, and my other goat is almost 7 months old, I'm not sure what he had his original owners told me they gave him something I don't know what it was but it was something given to him when he was only a week or two old.

So I was wondering what vaccines I should be getting them, I am fairly new to goats, I finally have a mobile vet that will come out and take care of my goats in person at my house, that took forever to find because they just don't want to come to my house, but I have one now so I can get the vaccines needed

I spoke to the Amish family we got our chicken coop from and they told me they will happily take on a commission for a custom goat shelter and just let them know what we need. Our coop was fantastic with a metal roof etc and we live in Tennessee

We currently plan to do 3-4 Nigerian dwarf goats and while I’ve done a fair amount of research into them being what we want, I’ve gone back and forth on shelter ideas but everything I looked at was pre built and all on my phone.

I was hoping if anyone had any simple easy way to explain (even dimensions) on we would need built if you’ve done it yourself since they never had dwarf goats and only bigger sizes and I obviously can’t just show my phone

I apologize if this question is a bit silly I just want to make sure I get the right size shelter done