UPDATE, on Yoda.
Karen managed to trim his back hooves last night, yippeeeee! She has been giving Yoda a little extra attention since I last wrote, extra petting, calm voice reassurance. Every evening the 3 get about a cup of Noble Goat feed in a common dish which they go crazy over. Well, last...
Thanks for the replies and well wishes.
I built the stand but couldn't complete the feeder/head restraint as I had to get back to work. I did bring the stand home and the "boys" were up on it in a matter of seconds. The boys view my dgf as "Momma". So every evening she sits on their bench and...
A little update.
I did some more research on several goat forums and google.
It seems like a milking stand is most helpful, (no, I'm not milking wethers lol). But several posters commented that not only do they milk on the stand but also trim hooves. The goats are munching on "nummies" and are...
Thanks for the replies.
I'm sure it's going to take time and persistence. We might try to isolate him from the others during hoof trimming and ply him with some grapes (they all LOVE grapes). As you know when they're all together, goats offer waayyy more help than needed.
Tonight during...
Thanks for taking time to field my questions.
We have 3 Nigerian Dwarf wethers all about a year old. After a few mistakes in the beginning, we thought we were on the right track,,, wrong! Apparently, due to too much Alfalfa, Yoda developed urinary calculi and had to be rushed to the vet for a...
Please think again about the beautiful singing coyotes.
We just lost our 2.5 yr. old RIR "Cinnamon", less than 3 hrs. ago to a coyote. We were standing not 20' away talking about our goats. Even if we had a weapon shouldered and scanning the edge of the woods it happened in less than 3 seconds...
First off, I'm not a peafowl owner, (girlfriend has 10 hens) so pretty much I do like birds. I'm an OTR trucker and am all over the country. One place I try to stop at is at Dunnigan,Ca., a real small "town" with a giant grain facility. Good safe/quiet place to sleep.
One evening I heard what...
Not experienced enough to help other than cheer you on. Of course food and water first AND isolation from your flock, don't want to bring all that nastiness in. BOL!