Raising & Caring for Our Dairy Goats 

How well behaved is your girl??? Wow! I can't believe how docile she is!

Thanks for sharing this about dairy goats!

Brought home my first two dairy goats this week to a minimum fencing and housing. Got some great tips to help plan our housing and fencing. Great information, to the point! Thanks!

Great intro to goats! Thanks

Awesome, thank you.

Great video, thanks for sharing.

I miss raising goats. Need more fence though. thanks for sharing Jerry of Pine Meadows Hobby Farm

So much fun..I want two goats maybe three but that's it..I think that is all I will have time for..thank you for your post..very help full

Awesome information! Thank you!

I LOVE your fencing idea!! Thanks for this video! I'm so glad I found it!

Thank you for sharing .looking to get Sanaan milk goats here in South Africa. we have cold winters and hot summers. enjoy your farming.

very informative thank you

We have a 50/50 Snubian (Saanen/Nubian) doe who is two years old, as well as a 50/59 Snubian billy who is 7-8 months old, he was bottle fed. The doe was bred last year to a Saanen billy so we have 75/25 Saanen Nubian. I love those two breeds though, and the Snubian doe's milk tastes like unpasteurized fresh cows milk!

I use the panels too, not easy to get home if you dont have a truck, we borrowed one. we used zip ties much faster and easy. Not the tiny one but the big one, we buy them in the big packet and go throw a lot

great video

If you drill a hole through the salt/mineral blocks (you can also buy them pre-drilled), you can run a chain through it and hang it on the side of the fence or inside the shade shelter and it keeps it off the ground so it doesn't mold.

good info

this was a very helpful video. thanks!!!

How large are your paddocks and how quickly to the few goats eat the grass. It looks awesome and i love your shelters. I'm grazing my herd but we don't have the paddocks just yet. I worry a little, when the grass all turns green, about bloat. Do you run in to bloat issues when the grass is all lush and green? Thanks! ;)

I put my mineral blocks on cinder blocks. Might help prevent yours from molding.

My God is that a unique goat

Great video! I love your set up, especially the modular fence! Arkansas ingenuity at its finest (fellow Arkansan).

Thanks 4 this video, very informative. We're thinking about getting goats & want 2 ensure we do our due diligence on all levels to ensure we do it right. Your video covering goat care, food, fencing, temperament..etc. I was thinking about getting Nubians, but based on below feed, I'm thinking not the best choice. WAY helpful. thanks! =)

I have a shelter that locks at night and they are nice and worm inside. I will never leave my goats in such an open area especially when I am expecting kits! This shelter needs a door and better insulation for the winter months!

Blessings. Congratulations for your beautiful animals, I have a humble sugestion for you because I give this idea to a lot of people and works magnificent and is to grow your own Hydrofodder Grass for your animals, your wife mentioned that Arkansas is hard to grow regular way the alfalfa, well with this method you will have fresh grass for them all year long specially on winter time, easy to grow, 1 Kg of seeds give 6 Kg of produce, you can grow any grain you want, is very economic the set up, and you can do it in your basement or any other place perfectly, I work with farm nimals all my life since I was 4 years old now I'm 37 with my grandfather and he used this grasses for all the animals around the farm specially for the ones who gives us the milk, another think is to make your own nutritional block, if you use this one at the time you milk them you will never have problems again because they learn you will give them something at the time you are milking them, all you have to do is a platform with a little box where you put the block makes your life easier and more confortable for both, another thing is you can built with truck tires a beautifull place for them to eat so they don't throw the food to the ground, the same for the nutritional block, even for the water, all you have to do is a little drain hole for when you want to clean this unit. I can see you have a nice property, I wish we have a property like that, you can make a lot of money, we came from Puerto Rico on 2010 and I put my Bussines Plan on the internet, and believe you can make a couple of millions selling all the veggies, greens, sprouts & products you can produce in your farm, bur ubfortunatelly we don't have any luck so far, 2 people contact me 1 in Montana, 1 in Illinois but all they want is my knowledge and my formulas for my 100% Oganic 100% green Oganic fertilizers, pesticides, animal foods, artisan products from them and after throw me out, and that is what they did when I said NO to their request. I'm an expert in Permaculture, Aquaculture, Vermiculture, Urban, Poly and Biodynamic Agricuture, I'm half Spanish [Spain], half Italian, my wife is 25 years old from Puerto Rico and her family is from Spain. When my grandfather came to Puerto Rico from Italy he brings all that Old World's knowledge and implemented in the new world, I born in Ct but grows in PR, I'm a Youth & Missionary pastor for 19 tears now. You can work your goats in different ways and use all that beautifull land to produce vegetables and make more money, raise more animals, restaurants are looking now for free range grass feed animals and pay top money for them, like chickens, ducks, game birds, plus you can grow fish to, built little by little greenhouses so you produce all year long, open your own CSA (Community Supportive Agriculture), a Farm's Stand, go to the Tailgates & Farmer's Markets, sell in winter the Aquafodder grass to another ranchers, only you put the limits to your own Market, we are talking about Millions of dollars a year if you do all this in the right way, you can start something new in your area, I praying to found a partner who wants to make a lot of money in Organic Farming and Raising Organic Animals, if you know somebody with a good and clean heart, No Scams like we suffer 2 times already let me know i"m more than glad to contact them, or somebody who has a farm and don't know how to work it, or is no working the farm right now please contact me @ B r o t h e r a y i n J e s u s @ g m a i l . c o m OR if you need help or have questions related to Organic Farming and your animals feel free to contact me. "The Peace of The Lord Be with You All."

You don't have to buy the blood stop powder you can just use flour. That's what they use at my local vet's office.

What are the benefits to cutting a blunt cut over the tip of the hoof? I’m asking because I was worried to cut too deep, and wondering if it was an optional area to trim and simply a personal preference for aesthetic.

What part of Arkansas are you guys from? We're in Salem, north central Arkansas.

I know this is an older video but I hope you can see this comment. Does what they eat frm the field adversely effect the taste of the milk?

nice

Nice video. What is the mineral pellet that you talk about in the video?

where in Arkansas can you buy some good price dairy goats do you recommend??? please and thank-you

I'm looking for a breed of milk goat and I was wondering with breed how does the milk taste? Would you recommend this breed for good tasteing milk? Thank You 😊🐐

Great video! Do you keep the billy with the doe's year round? Also how often do you mate the billy with one of the doe's?

Beautiful area,where is it?

are those horn scurs left from dehorning? can they be removed? great video.

Thanks for the video. Good info. Just bought some land to do some homesteading and was thinking of goats. I live in the North Eastern US. It was mentioned that the goats stayed in that open structure all through a harsh winter. What steps do you take to keep them warm enough in the winter?

could you do a video on how you put the cattle panels up. I am going to be expanding my goat pen and I want to use cattle panels but am not totally sure how you put them up, thanks! love your videos!

Hey guys great video, very helpful. what type, if any, of predators do you need to guard against, snakes etc.

are the horns of these gaots are artificially removed ? or there some breeds which dont have horns naturally?

How much milk do you get from each goat on the average?

is there a 100%complete feed for dairy goats? and do i offer that all day , i currently am using adm goat feed , and my goat(lamancha) is 5 months old ,and im feeding her about a cup a day and offer a good quality hay all day , she wont eat weeds and grass for some reason either , she was spoiled when i bought her .. should i just not feed her untill she starts eating the weeds/grasses and then maybe offer a little grain late evening ?

How much milk do you get on the average?

Is the hoof growth due to them living where it's grassy? In dessert in El Paso TX, never seen that before. Thanx for info.

where from this goats

She is VERY right about loud Nubians1 I think I have a Nubian/Tuggenburg mix, and she is VERY loud. Considering she is about to be only three months, I get it. I feel so bad to leave her to go to bed, because she whines so much. But again, she is DEFINATELY right!

Sir you have a Unicorn

Did you change bedding or anything during winter months ... We are in Alabama and had a harsh winter and although they seemed fine I felt like they needed more warmth this year we have a similar set up more closed off with pine shavings .. Any suggestions or is that good for them

Quick question- do you keep your breeding billy goat with your dairy goats while milking? does it affect the milk taste? We are researching goat milk/ dairy goats for our homestead but we all hate commercial goat cheese and would like a sweeter milk with no goaty taste. Thanks so much!

Unigoat

I enjoyed your video. Would you please give me the name of the white goat you have?

Ok guys.. what is the best breed of goat to have for milk? best tasting milk? also best for cheese? and produce a lot? my hubby and I are starting a small hobby farm, we want our kids to have more natural foods rather than the crap at the stores. Also best meat goat?

question: How much do you spend a year in food and straw a year?

is there a easy way to pull those posts up when u ready to move them?

might some pasture make some hay for them.

How large of an area are the paddocks? (did I spell that right?)

I didn't see a comment below referencing their horns. Do Sanaan always have horns that look that weird?

nice gun! .45?

have you ever considered disbudding them when they're babies? it really helps and it's way less traumatic than cutting them when they're older.

Where in Arkansas are you? We are also in the Ozarks.

why dont you burn horns??

Do you sell your does

What happened to their horns

Helle

Can you do a video on Pygmy goats please

geez who dehorned them????

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Your goats still aren't getting enough copper. All have fish tails.

My goats jump over those 😭

Why the hell dose he need a gun when he is showing a fence

When the woman doesn't want you (quando a mulher não te quer). ru-vid.com2aLkkf89qJ0?feature=share

Can you ask your husband/boyfriend/whatever he is to you, to stop fidgeting with the camera as your talking, makes it hard to hear and is annoying. Not sure if he just doesn't really know how to work it ...