I love Nubian, yours are so adorable. I currently on have wethers, 12, 3 are pygmy the rest are dairy goat, I had a Nubian, he was beautiful, I lost him a few years ago and haven't been able to find another when I go looking. I plan to only buy dairy boys and bottle raise them. I keep reading that about stones, but it hasn't been my experiences, I've kept many wethers over the last 25 years. The only one with stone s was a buck I purchased at three months, he was dead within weeks from stones. They must have been feeding him a lot of ration. My own I don't even think about it. Mine eat all our tree trimmings, I call them my natural chipper shredders.We went by what the breeder (over run by Nubian goats) told us and also their regular care vet. Maybe her particular lines have an issue? I was ready to remove the unnecessary accessories just about immediately (and am all for gelding horses while still at mom's side) but was talked out of it. Yes, the smell was ... something else ... so was the DH getting mounted in front of company. Course, he didn't even have a dog growing up and wasn't in tune with their intentions. They definitely inspired us to put a lot of time into our fencing- no escapes. First pic is when we brought them home, 2nd/3rd pics are the day they got the ole'snip snip... right before... and the last is last year early fall. They're now 3yrs old. The Saanen cross gestated for a long long time and was a giant at birth and his tail is permanently stuck to the left- part of the charm- in the first pic the Nubian was 6 weeks and he was just 3 weeks and already bigger. His mom was about the same size as the Nubian does. Actually he's off the dairy goat weight tape at this point. Beyond those first few weeks of alfalfa, we've also just done grass hay, blackberry maintenance and pasture. They love it when we prune our trees- big treats for them! What kind of goats do you keep?
