For those of you who are constantly adding new goats to your herd, rescuing goats, or just wanting to know if your own goats are healthy, this is the blog post for you! There is a lot to look for to determine whether a goat is “healthy” or not. Along with looking at the physical … Continue reading Conducting an Overall Health Assessment for a Goat
These treats are natural, easy to make, and a delicious snack for goats! The ingredients are linked to amazon affiliates, from which a small commission will be earned to support future blog posts, videos, and our lovely goats (find more about them on Instagram). So if you can, please purchase directly from those links, any and … Continue reading DIY Natural Goat Treats
This is an herbal goat salve that promotes healing for wounds, cuts, scrapes, and more. We love this salve, as it is easy to make, and has many beneficial qualities! Read the full recipe below on how to make this wonderful salve! The ingredients are linked to amazon affiliates, from which a small commission will … Continue reading DIY Natural Salve for Goats
Kelp meal is an extremely healthy supplement for goats. We feed our goats kelp meal "semi-free choice"; which means the goats can eat it to the extent that they want, but we still fill the feeder with a flat amount per goat. I fill the feeder at about 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup per goat … Continue reading Supplementing Goats With Kelp Meal
Goats, like most other creatures, are fairly well equipped to deal with cold winter weather. We, as owners, simply need to provide the necessities for them to survive. That includes... Adequate Shelter: Goats require the bare minimum of a place to be protected from wind, drafts, snow, rain, etc. A barn is ideal, but sheds … Continue reading Winter Care for Goats
This is probably THE most awaited post to have come out on this blog. The title says it all, and wow, is it a saga! It all started when I saw one of my sweet boys, Eddie, happily eating hay at the feeder, and pausing every so often to scratch his neck. Being the good … Continue reading The Goat Lice Saga: How we Finally Got Rid of Those Pesky Parasites
Garlic (Allium Sativum), is our #1 natural health food staple in our goats’ diet. It is my favorite supplement for goats, and it is my go-to treatment for most things! WHEN WE GIVE GARLIC: When we first started our journey with goats, we used no garlic at all, and experienced multiple parasite problems as well … Continue reading Using Garlic to Improve Herd Health
Goat coughs can be caused by a number of different things. Respiratory issues are very common in goats. When Eddie was a few months old, he developed a cough. This cough was unaccompanied by any other symptoms, and all we noticed was that he would cough 2-4 times in a row, and it was quite … Continue reading Coughs in Goats: Helping Eddie Through his Respiratory Issue
Goats can get bloated for a number of different reasons. Changes in feed or hay, stress, overeating, and more. In this case, we had given the boys some timothy hay pellets as treats, and Freddie just ate them way too fast, much quicker than usual, and so he did not digest them properly. Rumens are … Continue reading Bloat in Goats: Treating Freddie for his Minor Case of Bloat
It’s hard to imagine that your adorable new goats may very well have an over-abundance of worms & other parasites living in them. Yeah, we didn't believe it either. So to be sure that our goats had a perfect "low-count" of worms in their systems, we decided to do a fecal test! Sure enough, the … Continue reading How We Started Herbal Deworming for our Goats
