Re: Question for the goat experts
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if she was with a billy shes bred
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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Th if she was with a billy shes bred This here. Never had one that didn’t take for the 10 or so years we bred and raised them I still remember the very first one. Only one hoof was coming out and I had to reach in and get the other hoof. That was my introduction to raising goats
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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Ok cool! She is with a buck right now and has been since December 24th plus another doe. I’ve never seen them breed or even see the buck excited and trying to breed. They all just seem like friends.
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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I love goats as long as they stay inside their fence. Go that is the trick isent it, escape artists everyone of them, the only thing I didn’t like about having goats around is that every time they managed to get out they all seemed to want to go for a ride because they would end up on top of my car
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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her bag wont drop till a week or two before she kids. Seeing as they carry for 5 mths she isnt old enough to kid yet. If she is with a breeding age bill then she should be pregnant soon enough. My goats are pretty private about breeding. Ive never seen them in the act, but my bill carries on and acts insane when there is a nanny that is ready.
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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her bag wont drop till a week or two before she kids. Seeing as they carry for 5 mths she isnt old enough to kid yet. If she is with a breeding age bill then she should be pregnant soon enough. My goats are pretty private about breeding. Ive never seen them in the act, but my bill carries on and acts insane when there is a nanny that is ready. Thought goats can get pregnant at 5 months old? My goat is 14 months old right now.
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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i had 400 nannies for a grazing contract we had at a air force base eating spurge... when a billy breeds its just one fast ram jump on back throw his head and its over probably less than 30 seconds.. i had 8 billys to cover the 400 head ... it wasnt enough they literally did it till death... down to skin and bones... not all of them but i think i lost 3 out if the 8
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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if a fence dont hold water it wont hold goats
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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She may be prego or it might be a false preg due to her age, is she starting to swell or discharge around her vulva? I didn’t see anything like that yesterday when I looked at her. I’ll keep an eye on it.
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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Goatman, with a name like that I figure you know your stuff when it comes to goats. Can I leave her with the other doe and billy while she’s in labor or should I move her into her own stall to have her kids? If I need to move her, how long till I can put her and the kids with the other goats?
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Re: Question for the goat experts
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Ive had young or aggressive billies mistake the birthing smells for in heat smells and cause enough drama to make inexpierenced nannys leave their kids .being her first time id prefer to seperate her .she wont know to nock the crap out of the billy if he gets to close Good to know! I’ll make her a pen and put her in there in a few days. Hopefully she doesn’t have them before I build it. Lol
Those things look used already!?
Can't tell by the way milkers look until about two weeks from delivery. They will swell up like crazy then. Other than that I've been told you can't really be sure until you walk out to barn one morning and have a bunch of new heads peeking out the door at ya.
We can kinda tell with ours when that indentation between ribs and pelvic area fills up. Then it's anybody's guess until milkers swell up. Will her bag fill up a little more each day or will it be a little bit one day then a lot a week later, then bam! Babies! ?
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