We got a sweet male kiko who was about 4 mos old around 2-3 weeks ago. We are new goats owners but have 4 others who are doing great. This guy got urinary calculi and we had to euthanize him. I am so heart broken. they do get goat feed but only a little and they eat a lot of plants bc we have 40 acres of land and plenty of trees. It happened so fast and I feel so terrible.

Big Hoss is very proud of himself. Round one of breeding season is in the books. Now we wait for ultrasound day!

My beautiful baby, Jolene, was a bottlefed baby. She's now about 8 months old, born in December 2025. She's amazing! Very friendly, but I don't know how to halter train her.
As in the picture, she can have a halter on. It's pretty easy to get it on and off of her and she doesn't freak out about it, luckily. I just don't know how to lead-train her. Is it too late?
I've never even lead-trained dogs, so I'm definitely gonna need some help and refer back to this very often. I want to be able to take her on hikes.
*I know the halter in the photo is a little small, we're getting a bigger one the next time we go into town. She's also very fluffy, I checked- It wasn't pressing into her bad.
*The 'cage' she's in is not something she lives in. She was chilling in it while her dye processed! I also have a huge herd of other goats, so I'm not the kind of person that has a single goat in a TINY pen. They have acres to explore.

My parents live on a farm these two goats mom passed away and they are raising them at the house. Look how cute they are now 🥲

I have been looking for good quality goat minerals in my local stores (europe) but without results. The only minerals i come across are multi-purpose minerals for both goats and sheep. I've read these are bad since they dont have enough copper for goats. Online i find most people recommend Sweetlix meatmaker goat minerals but these are not available in europe. Does anyone know a good alternative brand i can find in the EU?

I already have salt blocks but apparently they don't provide enough nutrients for goats. So i'm looking for loose minerals for goats.

Not problematic for me, the girl we got him from stated they used a vet who didn’t know what he was doing (no surprise there) and the goat ended up with scurs. They are almost paper thin, but grow pretty curled in so his previous owners had to trim them up every once in a while. He’s great but he really doesn’t like his head being touched where his horns would’ve been. She also stated that his scurs would fall out every now and again if he was particularly banging his head against things. After we brought him home he banged off the other scur and bled a little, when I found out the bleeding had pretty much resolved itself. I put some antiseptic spray and some other fly spray around his face/back of the skull to keep flys out of it.

I specifically made this post to ask about what the proper trimming technique would involve to keep his horns from growing into his skull With the least amount of stress and pain to the animal. Right now he has no scurs on his head, I have a picture of the one he did have but it’s from far away. Also what would I even trim the horn with? Hoof trimmers just doesn’t seem to be the way to go and the lady actually didn’t tell us what they used to trim the horns.

She's been way hungrier than usual and gotten bigger

Ciao ho acquistato un paio di settimane fa 2 caprette tibetane. Un maschio di quasi 4 mesi e una femmina quasi di 5 mesi.

Il maschio il giorno bela praticamente sempre continuerà cosi? Perché fa cosi? Se poi mi vede, ancora peggio. Bela ancora più forte.

Hanno da bere, fieno, mangime.

Ho bisogno di un vostro parere. Perché se continua cosi sono costretta a darle vie, non vorrei che disturbassero i vicini di casa. Le sento io, in casa mia.....

My goats have a large field that is primarily clover, and thistle, and they won't eat it. They wait for me to either bring hay, or let them out into the yard where they'll eat the grass and trees in the yard. Do I stop giving them hay, so that they'll go and eat the clover, or do I need to just keep giving them hay? Im just curious what others have done to get the goats to use the fodder within their enclosure. I'm not going to let them starve, obviously.

Additional information, in the spring they eat the new growth down to a half inch height but now that its clover they want nothing to do with it.

I have a goat whose hoof is rolled. He walks fine but I seem to get it to correct regardless of my clipping. Any suggestions? My other goats are totally fine and have the same regimen of clipping.

Shes my only doe Nubian currently and also my first.

My bucks don't look like this so I'm a little worried

Famacha is fine, ​diet hasn't changed recently, and temp is fine. Shes been like this since I got her about a month ago or so

edit for clarification:

birthday: 1/27/26

been treated as a much younger doe for coccidia. tested for CAE, and I'm not sure if she was tested for johne's ofr not.

shes in her own pen seperated from the herd and has been since I got her about 2 months ago now.

​I have been treating her with deworming pellets til recently. shes on standard goat feed but were gonna put her on growers soon.

shes never been treated with any other medicine than probiotics and electrolytes.​​​ but we have toltrazuril and albon

shes not in milk, pregnant, or nursing.

Only other symptoms shes had for anything is watery eyes and some mucus on her nose.her nose has cleared up but her eyes haven't. We tried to treat her for pink eye since one of our sheep has that rn, but it's not pink eye.

Her fur doesn't feel as soft as our other ​​​​goats. But it's also curly compared to my other goats so idk if that makes a difference.

Shes been treated for lice, mites, and any other skin issues.

Only blank period I have from her upbringing is a month or two where she was purchased by a family, then returned, and I bought her very soon after ​that. She was with them for maybe 3 months (if even that long). This is a big reason why shes been in quarantine so long.

I'm a new goat owner so any help or suggestions are welcome​​

UPDATE:

started mixing in some dewormer feed and her coat looks way better, her eyes cleared up, and we have her on grower feed now as well. ​I'm sure ill post some photos of her soon but for now she's doing much better

My cousin had doordash some pig Treats but they brought her these instead, so she gave them to me since she doesn't have a goat, I want to know if they would be safe since I have two male goats, of course I wouldn't give them very many these are the size of a pee and I wouldn't give them more than for a piece, I figure since my younger goat has to go through so much medical stuff and since the vet doesn't have goat's treats, these would be easy to carry on me and give him one when they give him a shot or do something that's uncomfortable, what do you guys think?

I would imagine it’s exceptionally rare. But has anyone ever had this happen in their herd? We live about an 1 hour away from a national park where some of the bats have tested positive….

We just became goat parents and the people we got the black doe from said she's likely pregnant. We've had her for about two weeks now, and the other two goats are still kids. Any help/recommendations are greatly appreciated!

Hi all, I have a question for those who have goats and chickens! My chickens keep eating my goats mineral block! They are sitting their and pecking it and making it gone by 2 days! And way for my goats to have access to it but not the chickens? Tia

I was bit by a petting zoo goat today - I very foolishly let it chew on my finger and it broke the skin; it’s a deep-ish puncture but otherwise not worrisome. Do I need a rabies vaccine?! I’m spiraling. It seemed perfectly healthy.

Prince is over a year old, he's supposed to be a weather but I believe the castration failed, the vet did the birdizo castration (I think I'm spelling that wrong) But there hasn't being any Behavior changes and no visual changes to his testicles so I don't think it was done correctly, I am going to have another vet examine him once Frosty is taken care of.

Frosty is a buck he is not quite six months old yet he will be six months the first, I originally got him both as a companion to Prince and to be a future breeding buck when I get some does, Prince is a lamancha frosty is a Alpine, I'm still not quite sure if I'm going to have Frosty castrated or not but I am leaning towards it just to help keep as much weight off of his remaining hind leg as possible, I am going to talk to the vet first.

Since Prince likes to head-butt everything and was alone before I got him, he had never seen another goat except from the time he was born to a week later when he was sold to the people I got him from, when I got him he had really bad aggression issues and would attack anyone that came within his lot, now he's calmed down to where I can safely handle him he still tries to Ram me when I try to mess with his legs or hind in but he was abused quite badly so I believe he's got some trauma around those areas, he doesn't fully attack me like he used to.

Prince cannot be handled by a man he still very afraid of men And you can see that he is when he starts shaking and then gets aggressive when a man gets near him So only women can handle him unless he sedated, Frosty I've had him since he was 20 days old he also had a rough start he got really sick not long after I got him wouldn't eat wouldn't use the bathroom it was just a mess, he came out of that in May and then late June he got injured and this month I was told he needs his leg amputated.

My concern is since they haven't been together Fully yet they have met before Frosty got hurt And we're only together for about 30 minutes to an hour with Prince on a leash, pass that they only interact through the fence as I haven't felt fully confident in putting them together entirely yet, I'm scared now that Frosty is going to be a tripod that he might not be able to safely be with Prince.

And in that case I am fully willing to get Prince his own friend and frosty his own friend, my question is what kind of friend would be best for frosty? He's an Alpine and if he gets as big as his dad he'll be about 170 lb probably a little bit less if I get him castrated, Frosty is very good natured and sweet so I don't think he would be too hard on any friends he has I'm more concerned about the friend being too hard on him.

Or would a shared fence line be enough for them? I'm very worried about that and want both of them to be happy.

Please let me know what your opinions are and what you would do in this situation

This is the one I'm currently using it's $14 for this bottle, it does work but wears off fairly quickly, and while it's wet I have a allergic reaction to it, once it's dry it doesn't bother me but while it's wet it causes me to get hives.

So I was wondering what brands you used so I can try some other ones to see if I can find one that I don't react to

Okay, hear me out...

Can anyone foresee any safety issues that might happen from a goat wearing one of those GoPro vests? I'm willing to possibly sacrifice the GoPro to getting dislodged and lost in the field for the chance at some goat POV footage, but not willing to risk my actual goat for it.

These things (or something similar)

https://gopro.com/en/us/shop/mounts-accessories/fetch-dog-harness/ADOGM-001.html

He's getting ready to have a surgery which is taking his hind right leg off, because of that he's going to have to be on the goat equivalent of stall rest for a little while, I would like a way that makes him eat his hay slower so it lasts him longer and he stays occupied longer, this would not work for my older goat he would eat the bag and all but Frosty's a good boy, he doesn't tend to try to eat things that are not food, in fact he has a dog bed that he sleeps on and does not try to eat it whatsoever so I was wondering for him if a hay bag would be something that I could try