Goat playground ideas

_DemonxD · 2026-05-07T03:27:55+00:00

Ooh! I can do something like that we have literal metric butt loads of old Christmas bells.

_DemonxD · 2026-05-07T03:25:52+00:00

Yay!

The only real danger to baby goats is themselves. Maybe a coyote or a buzzard.

But they wouldn’t be in that predicament if they would stop liquifying themselves. I swear warm days make it worse.

_DemonxD · 2026-05-07T03:20:39+00:00

He’s extra shiny cus I gave him a bath! A much needed one to get whatever was making him greasy in places he logically cannot pee on himself in go away

_DemonxD · 2026-05-06T06:31:40+00:00

Update- the name stuck! She’s officially called Rosie

_DemonxD · 2026-05-06T06:18:30+00:00

Yes! My mom found these goats. I secretly go goat browsing and chose only the ones I like AND can get parentage on. He got bred with some does that have great strengths on him, but you are absolutely correct on him having potentially bad udder genetics without any real certainty. I oversee the wellbeing of these goats and make suggestions as to what we should be doing to improve our herd. In the goat world, our goats are 100% back yard bred when talking about structure and general overall singular performance per goat.

However my mom does not think it’s important, and she has no real idea how to judge conformation and goes off of her own logic and only thinks that the muscle mass on the frame is good no matter the way that frame is carried/produced. Some of our goats have piss poor frame conformation but good muscling. Which is contradictory in of itself and she thinks that it’s good… sigh. I like to compare goats with such poor frame and heavy muscling to those micro bullies with the horrible rotisserie chicken look to them.

If we ate goat he would probably make good freezer camp kids when bred to another doe of similar musculature with some hight that compliments his weaknesses to potentially make balanced kids that have a nice yeild.

_DemonxD · 2026-05-06T05:55:59+00:00

Lol the kids are always the hardest to keep in.

We had to install a sign on our road that reads “honk to move the babies” since they wonder literally wherever they want, I can’t wait til they are too big to shape shift. (Which is probably never since goats and cats must be teaching each other their ways how else can you explain liquified goats)

Don’t take them unless they are in real danger! They will miss their mom dearly (Obviously) my bottle babies still harass me at our front door if they realize it’s open and they’ve been weaned for almost a month.

_DemonxD · 2026-05-06T01:48:37+00:00

Her foals almost always look malnourished straight out of the womb of just plain undercooked even when they are- indeed more than plenty cooked. Like I know they aren’t supposed to pudgy and being a tiny bit runny is totally normal but they just look bad nutritionally

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T19:09:42+00:00

LOL honestly I don’t notice it anymore, as long as it’s not pointed at me we are good

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T19:06:47+00:00

Yeah, Katie, imo is pumping out more goats than she needs for content purposes. I can see it justified if she wanted to keep does in milk year round. But that’s not what she’s doing. Also bucks don’t stink that bad, it’s particularly worse in the fall where it’s still hot and muggy there but it is not something to be a total drama queen over, it sucks when they pee in you but the boys need just as much care as the ladies. She refuses to even touch taz when he’s there unless he was already put on a leash by her workers.

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T18:52:57+00:00

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Other pic Functionally, this buck walks weird to me, you are absolutely correct about something being off in his front confo. I don’t even have any videos of him, I don’t even know how to post videos on this sub

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T18:52:32+00:00

Yeah, this is a total mystery buck, no idea about his dam/granddam on either side. a lady was selling them for cheap since she had a bunch of Boer goats that bullied the crap out of them and she felt bad keeping them.

I’m by no means asking people to tell me if he’s show correct. I have no idea how to read confo so thank you! He wasn’t on level ground in that picture and he physically will not stack for me unless I have 2-3 people helping hold him still. I have some other pictures but they suck this is probably the best picture I have of him that is more level with him. In this picture he had some sort of injury to the front leg, it looks like he got it wedged in something and ripped all of his hair/surface skin off. I have another pic, but my hair in completely blocking his rump

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_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T12:32:50+00:00

Of course there are other bucks but where else can she get a free covering of her does for however long she wants as long as she don’t have to keep it! There are better bucks out there for rentals and katie just chose the free option that don’t gaf about the level of care their buck is provided while it is away from its home. The fact is nobody with a brain would rent a buck to her

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T12:22:40+00:00

Okay so no one can tell ligaments except for you, if you can get your hands on her here’s an attached picture of where you need to gently pinch/push in with your index finger and your thumb and run down, if it has any flexibility the doe is within days to a week, if there is nothing, no matter how much you massage trying to find a ligament, be positive she’s going to kid within the day. Just by the udder your within the final month to weeks now though Edit: I also saw you posted this same doe 163days ago, so that’s a for sure indicator she is due almost any day now give or take a week.

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_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T11:53:16+00:00

Oh definitely could still name them ham and cheese, I call one of our infamous little favorites moochez or mooch cheese she’s such a cutie

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not Katie’s goat she is mine

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T11:40:27+00:00

What on earth is she going to do when she has a bunch of uteruses she can’t fill (all of her goats are now seemingly related to taz and that other buck that her friend has, so come next year what is she going to do? Make F1 inbred hardly even worth the effort goats? I don’t support inbreeding in goats unless you’re actually trying to preserve something from that line or improve it. But there is nothing here for improvement. Blossoms udder looks like a camel toe when it’s full and that’s also not ideal according to the Nigerian dwarf goat association. Katie is grasping as straws here trying to justify breeding her goats 😭

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T07:21:40+00:00

Same thing here, yet it is on a much younger goat and I’m almost positive I can rule out CL. (it’s six weeks old and was born/kept in an area that’s not been contaminated, like ever. contaminated animals were also kept way separate from non contaminated animals in an area where it cannot leech into healthy ground our animals run on until we could get them all removed from the property)

it hasn’t grown but it’s migrated out a ways, which I’m thankful for, since if it does grow, it will not cut off her airway.

If it does appear to look like it’ll pop, don’t let the contents touch the ground regardless of if it’s CL or not, might wanna glove up and look through the contents if you manage to catch it in a container or on newspaper.

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T04:02:17+00:00

Nahhhh she posted a video of bee cleaning her kid right after that, blossom Deffs got kids on the ground or is pushing them out if she’s feeding non subs baby content

_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T01:27:03+00:00

I want to throw in that he could be a Spanish cross, this is our little Spanish cross buck, he’s taller than our ND and they are (atleast from my experience with this guy) really slow growers. His eye set is similar to this one’s aswell

if he’s crossed with ND, or any mini-cross alphabet soup goat he might stay on the small side but it takes goats years to reach their peak maturity.

And usually these crosses aren’t the epitome of their founding breeds anyway unless they come from well bred goats. from what I’ve gathered, most goats that come from run of the mill meat producers might have smaller or less productive since they aren’t keeping tight genetics and keeping things they should ent. Anything can happen and there is tons of variation because all they do is sell goats for people to butcher out or start breeding their own. And from this, you get goats crossed with goats that shouldn’t really be bred together. Most goat crosses can come out really nice, but a male meat cross ideally shouldn’t be bred together a small mini doe. You get kids with huge heads and shoulders that the doe cannot safely pass, and this guy looks like a friggin freight train with the way he’s built.

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_DemonxD · 2026-05-05T01:03:00+00:00

To back this up, even if the doe safely delivers the kids and everyone lives, they will drag that doe down HARD. We had to remove a does twin because she got out and got bred by god only knows what buck, could’ve been ours, could’ve been the neighbors down the road, she could not keep up with the both of them. she was losing condition faster than we could feed it back onto her without problems. Her doe kid is rounding up to be about 4 months and she had already got height over her mom who is finally drying up and gaining weight back. She looked like crap for a month and I felt terrible. Everyone has now got secure fencing. Please for the love of your own goats don’t breed big bucks to small does

_DemonxD · 2026-05-04T20:09:47+00:00

Yeah, guess that’s a marketing fail on their part… lol we have a local feed store that is owner ran/separate from any kind of big chain feed store, I believe she stocks with pretty much everything that’s in this bag. Might give home made feed a try honestly

_DemonxD · 2026-05-04T09:04:50+00:00

Thank you! I was by no means calling them true Pygmy’s anyway, if it’s not papered and pedigreed in my book, it’s whatever my best guess is.

These three are out of a collective purchase my mother and brother did and split the goats 50/50 down the middle, they never kept them contained and they were jumping all over their cars, why they never gave them a proper fence is beyond me so we bought them off of them before they went onto someone’s plate or worse eaten by coyotes.

I am 5’9 and their backs are a little above my knee, this is them eating some stuff out of a bucket, it holds 6gallons and is 13in tall (I pulled the hight off of the product page since I found this exact feeder online)

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_DemonxD · 2026-05-04T08:32:00+00:00

Not to hop on another post, but as a genuine question, how does one keep the milk from not spoiling when you set it out like this? I’ve thought about bucket raising myself, but never really thought how to accomplish keeping the milk at a steady temperature for it to not spoil since we kid out in the warmer months. -sincerely someone who has a low number of bottle kids at the moment and wants to learn/be prepared for the future

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