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.

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.

I’m looking for some insight and advice on this…. All the other goat farmers I know don’t have a clue. It’s just odd.

I have coughing goats with a new group of young doelings. They arrived a 3 weeks ago after a long-haul transport. Since arrival, they have been strictly quarantined in a separate barn and pasture with no contact with my main herd.

3 days after getting off the transport truck, one had diarrhea (treated with Amprol, resolved) and another one had a soft cough (every 3-10 mins). The cough persisted despite supportive care (injected vitamins/ all goats exposed to electrolytes).

On the 19th/20th after 3 weeks of being here, I moved the new goats into a fresh, isolated pasture (quarantined barn at night) , it’s never had goats on it. On the 21st, almost all of the goats started coughing.

It’s a Soft, dry cough occurring every 3- 10 minutes, maybe sometimes more frequent. Zero nasal or eye discharge. No labored breathing. I listened to their lungs, completely normal. Currently running a fecal for lungworm, I’ll find out tomorrow after I finish it (I like to wait 24 hours). Still eating (alfalfa hay + weeds), drinking well, and very active. They’ve been running sound. Normal poops. Clear bright eyes.
Temps are all within the normal range, I’ve taken them repeatedly for all goats.

They are currently eating well and behaving normally despite the cough. I am considering calling the vet, but wanted to see if anyone had any insight.

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

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.

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 🥲

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.....

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.

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.

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 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….

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​​

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?

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

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!

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

So as the title says, my doe has mild mastitis and was prescribed 3.5 ml penicillin injected once a day for 7 days. Normally I have my partner to help me hold her, but he wasn’t going to be home when she was due for the dose so I did it myself. I tented the skin and with her fur I didn’t realize the needle had gone fully through the other side as I kept pushing the needle in. I saw the white liquid had been dispersed all over her fur. I legitimately cannot tell if she got half of the dose or none at all.

I thought about going back out and giving her like .5 or 1 ml to compensate but I also don’t want to mess her up more by potentially overdosing her though I doubt that would based on the amount on her fur. It terrifies me that she could have now missed a whole day dose of medicine. She has currently had 2 doses, today would have been her third. Can this really mess up her healing if I continue as normal tomorrow? I also don’t want to mess up her resistance to the antibiotic though I feel like that won’t happen over one mistake. If you guys could give me any advice on what you would do in my shoes, I am new to owning goats and am disappointed in myself that I messed it up. Thank you guys!!!

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

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

The one I was getting I was getting it at my local farm store but they have unfortunately went out of business due to the owner sadly passing away.

The goat warmer at Tractor Supply is very expensive for the liquid bottle, so I was wondering what brand you guys would recommend, I've only got two goats so I don't need something that worms a dozen or so goats, I prefer the liquid because it's easier for me to give it to my younger goat and just easier for me to give to them in general (my chickens try to steal any kind of pellet anything I have and are ruthless about it🥲)

Thank you in advance for your suggestions I really appreciate you guys taking the time to read my post!