This is the AI Protocol we use each year:
(the number of days can be shortened/extended if needed)
Funny video of most of my girls in season at the same time: Click Here
I started doing my own fecals and am so glad. Using the McMaster slides is easy. The information you learn about your goat’s internal health is priceless!
A great source for purchasing the fecal equipment: Maggidans.com
We have provided free choice minerals to all of our goats for years with very good success.
Video of goat licking the Cobalt block: Click Here
What do you give a single kid? A teddy bear of course! Goats are social creatures and when you have a single kid born, you must think of something for a companion. Buying another kid was out of the question so I immediately gave her a stuffed teddy bear to bond with. It worked like a charm! She eventually grew large enough to go in with the older kids.
We’ve been hauling our goats to shows in the back of our minivan and now we bought a miniature horse trailer!
It is perfect!
