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Has anyone heard of or could summarize the EATS act? I got an email about it this morning and this is the first I've heard of it. The email said it came out of Iowa senators and is a threat to small agriculture. Beyond that...idk. The Google search does not like it. Nothing but telling people...

I keep going back and forth on this, meaning I should probably lean towards not, but... Okay, I have a small standard lamancha doe of my breeding. Her sire was a buck with smaller genetics. Her dam was a cross of a slow growing line and a growthy fast growing one. The dam was growthy. The doe in...

Let's play a new game. Let's play, "2 day old nigerian goats with neurological signs and refusal to eat". So my fb buddies are saying it's goat polio. What do you think? They get episodes of this and are head pressing, walking in circles. This is my last litter of nigierans. I have b complex...

So we have two Pyr-Anatolian crosses and it's time for me to choose. They are about 4 months old, probably going on 80lbs, very shy and unsocialized to adult people. They are okay around my kids. If my husband comes out they hide in their pen. They to watch and try to be as close as possible to...

rachels.haven submitted a new resource: Online Famacha Class - Get certified and get your card Read more about this resource...

So I have a bit of a pedigree quandary. I have two adga registered nigerian dwarf bucks with ancestors from a certain herd that has had ethics and pedigree falsifying "issues". One of their ancestors (paternal grandfather on one who is the maternal grandfather on the other, same buck for each)...

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We're going to be getting a barn built for my goat herd. It's going to have at least three large stalls and a milk room and will need to have a loft for hay storage (might consider ground storage). Price gap between post and beam and pole barn types is pretty big BUT in your opinion, if you were...

Hi, Today we went out house hunting. One of the properties was perfect-perfect little house, perfect kid friendly yard, cleared 7+ acres, and buying it and selling our current one would end our mortgage debt, but it has kind of a strange barn. It used to be a very old chicken facility-nothing...

Alright guys, it's a drought/off weather year where I live. My hay guy advised me to gather as much hay as I can even if it's not from him because come March he thinks it's going to be a bloodbath in New England and second cutting goat/horse hay is already getting short. How do I make hay...

I've been having issues with my Komondor/Pyrenees cross puppy, Badger. He's 6 mo old, and around 80, maybe 90 pounds (too heavy to pick up and lift into a truck even rear or front at a time and can smash his paws into your chest now). Both parents were working with goats, chickens, alpacas...

This has not been my morning. My 4 year old swiped and disassembled in private my nice bolus gun and lost pieces then while I was doing health checks and I noticed one of my bucks was pale so I got some wormer ready to go and... My lamancha buck ate the straw off one of these while eagerly...

Discovered this late last night at lockup. Any ideas what the cause could be? Famacha is excellent, very dark. I will be running a fecal later. No punctures. She seems a little painful, but not much. It's wiggly, gushy and feels like water. Browsing pen is brush, trees, and dust. Barn pen is...

What is the protocol for a pregnant doe that is leaking milk? She should have 47 days to go till due date based on her last heat and buck exposure (and she's a doe that cycles fairly loudly with dramatic changes in behavior and lots of blubbering, I put a buck in with her, and she was bred, so...

What would be a good microscope for doing fecals? I'd welcome recommendations. What about either of these? https://www.amazon.com/Koolertron-Microscope-Magnification-Adjustable-Rechargeable/dp/B07FRRTD9L/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=10x+microscope&qid=1560209279&s=gateway&sr=8-3#customerReviews This...

Hello out there! I'm stuck buying hay in late February after a move. It's very expensive ($37/100lbs!!!). I have one doe freshening in March and it looks like my other two does are open. I also have 2 bucklings. I get to choose between straight alfalfa and orchard-alfalfa mix. Because of the...

Hi out there! Normally I don't really care to share much and would much rather hear about others' adventures, but I'm having a lapse of normal judgement, so I think I'm going to start my thread. I've kept yard birds of various forms for a long time, but just started keeping rabbits, and when...