If you formulate a schedule based on your area and needs it’s as simple as one or two maintenance doses a couple times a year. Our eight bucks are housed together and for the most part are little gentleman! As far as behavior, see above, we allow basic mating, but not ” getting naughty”. The bucks love playing in the water! In the winter, big human size wipes combat any raunchy smells. Good livestock shampoo and a hose is all it takes. With the exception of a few weeks in the fall, vigilant grooming keeps our bucks from getting rank. High quality, good genetics and dedication in breeding and milking practices keep theses great gals going. We have several does that can go thru estrus milking and don’t require yearly kidding. Staying one step ahead by watching for potential routes, leaping from shelters, shimmy up trees etc. If your goats are getting out, the fencing isn’t adequate. If the fencing is adequate, they can’t get out. Unless the gate is left unlatched, they stay in the pens. We continue this training until they are ” bomb proof” Hoof trimming, and everything else we put them thru is fun and the goats love the attention! Touching every part of the goat, putting them on the stand and running them through the paces. From minutes after birth we teach proper manners. I’ve offered here a glimpse at our production in a hopeful attempt to help those struggling. We have over forty goats and we maintain them on our working farm. But the next 4 were too small and progressively less developed. When she went into labour she needed help (did I say she was older? About 13) and the first baby was good. I am sad to say that in my inexperience I bred her a few times because I thought she hadn’t caught. She stood still whilr he washed her udder, she stood still as he bumped around trying to position his stool, she stood still as he grabbed hold but then her patience ran and she calmly and gently got her nose under his bum and sent him summersaulting away. This nanny was also patient as my son tried his hand at milking. When I would go outside I would click my tongue and they would come running, sit on my knees and suck on my ears. Every day I let my 2 year old curl up and sleep with them. She later gave birth to two of the cutest babies. She was so patient as I learned how to milk her as well as a surprise when I discovered that goats have only 2 teats. Firstly, I purchased an older Saanan nanny. Hi, my name is Darlene and I raised/owned a few goats several years ago. They get checked out regularly by the vet and they’re incredibly healthy and happy and they give me lots of beautiful milk That’s not to say that the problem might not arise in the future but I haven’t had a problem in six years. Now they will eat grass and plants & the bark off your trees but if you feed them well they will do less of that then if you don’t. I put them in an area of my property that was all rock and sand and now I have good wonderful soil and lots of earthworms where they’ve been living for six years. As far as landscape distruction it depends on what you consider a distruction. They are sent is a very metallic tang which personally I don’t find unpleasant. I do have to trim to does hooves but the bucks trim their own because there’s rocks back they are that they can trim them on and if they have plenty of access to the outside and fresh air bucks don’t smell that bad. Not that they cant jump it, but they are happy so they dont. I’m managing to keep them penned using nothing but 4’ dog run fencing. I’ve been running a backyard urban farm for six years with as many as 25 goats at a time (not recommended). But there are some very easy steps that can be taken. I disagree nearly 100% with everything that was said.
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