Nevadans?

[Jeeper1540]

Ok, my pullets (and that one i still think is a roo) are a bit over 3 months old (about 15 weeks) And the 2nd bag of starter just ran out. Since they have at least another month before they will lay, should i get one bag of grower type food for them them to eat (the last bag lasted about a month) before i switch them over to layer? I'm planning to get a load of feed this weekend so what do you think i should do now?

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I'd do flock raiser until they lay

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Ditto!
If you put out flock raiser until they are all laying they will be better off. Usually some will start laying and others will wait. You can put out crushed oyster shell for the layers until they are all laying, then switch to layer feed.

Thanks for all the sympathy everyone! I appreciate it very much!

I can't wait til we retire then I can have as many critters as I want!

 

[SunnyDawn]

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OMG! I'm finally thawing out from that horrible deep freeze of a winter we had and somebody is already wishing for it to come back?!!!

Where is he? I want to give him a piece of my mind!

 

[db]

Hey found your thread I am new. I live in Pahrump Nv. my first year here and loving it. In the house we have my wonderful husband, my parents now 88 and 87. We have 3 dogs and 26 pullets that are now 19 weeks old a mix of Ameracaunas, Australorps, White leghorn, Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rock.

 

[sherylreno]

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Hey there

Sunny started this thread a few years ago and she's a great lady to get to know on here along with most of us as well!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

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Welcome to the nevada thread!

 

[Peep_Show]

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I love a good, mild goat cheese.

I do as well! Yummy! Aubrey remember in order to get goats milk the goat must have a baby first and then you can milk her twice a day to make the cheese, I haven't made fresh cheese yet but it's a dream of mine to learn. I was going to start with ricotta and then move on from there.

Hi all! For some reason the computer dropped the notifications again and I just went through the last 15 or so pages...

Love goaties... Used to raise and milk them and some day when I get back into a farm friendly neighborhood I may just get into hobby dairying, but I definitely plan on having a big coop, a veggie garden and a goat or two.

Let me suggest a couple of things to consider before you get into goat husbandry....

1) Ask somebody if you can milk their goat. Surprisingly, carpal tunnel really shows up with hand milking and ten minutes into it you may be cramping so hard you'd wished you hadn't started the undertaking. (Spoken from experience... Luckily, if you have $$, you can go the milking machine route -- big hassle with cleaning all the tubes, so you probably want lots of goats to make it worth while -- or the hand pump milker route, which is a suction bottle you can buy for $150-$180 that essentially works with a squeeze trigger...picture like a Spray-n-Wash hand pump as the moving mechanism)

2) Try making some cheese. Ricotta is really simple to do (See recipe somewhere in this thread for my crockpot recipe). You can also get nifty kits on-line (Amazon carries Rickie's line of cheese making kits). Just remember that you can use any type of milk EXCEPT ultra-pasteurized. Some people find the project fun...others find it a chore. If it's too much of a hassle or too sloppy for you, find that out now and save some goat the hassle.

The reason I bring this up I'd hate for goats to go to a home that suddenly changed their mind.

Goats are surprisingly smart. Make sure you have a secure pen....Goats can and do climb trees. Goats are easy prey. They're also extremely fun animals.

Just what I remember from my goat days. (The most unusual job on my resume is "Midwife and boarding barn for show goats".... Seriously, I actually made more money on mini goats than I ever did on horses....go figger!)

Good luck with the goats (and cheese!)

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Thanks for all that advice, peep! We are still deciding on whether or not to get goats so this will really help us make up our mods. You rock!

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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just in case I was unclear

(loved those fun loving smilies)






Ron.............

your work friend. Just wait until it warms up a bit more and the biter bugs will be gone - at least in our area. Already seeing (or feeling) a drop in the no-seeum population and those nasty mosquitoes.



db -

welcome to

and the NV thread.