My Top Tips for a Successful Goat Breeding Season
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2018
- Raising goats isn't difficult but there are a few things that you should know ahead of time when it comes to breeding your does. In this video I share my top tips for a successful goat breeding season.
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Im so glad you keep your old videos up. I just got a doe and borrowed a buck. The only interaction I’ve had with goats till now was when I took my kids to a petting zoo. My husband and one guy that works for us built two great pens, this week we’re building the shelter. Can’t wait to see the babies
We put our does in with our bucks over the weekend too. We have 4 different bucks this year, so 4 breeding areas. Looking forward to the kids on the ground come February. You are so right on bucks being 50% of the herd, many folks skimp there when they shouldn't be. I only leave my bucks with the does for 45 days. Weight is important, but as an 8 month old, she is still growing herself that growing a kid takes away from her own resources for self growing. Most kiko people wait until 18 months to breed so they kid on their second birthday, but there are ton of folks who go by weight only. Take care, always enjoying seeing you goat vids.
Always some great information about raising goats here on the Arms Homestead..thanks Daniel
Awesome video! Your goat videos actually are what got me hooked on this channel. I plan on getting a small heard in the near future!
I'm impressed at your knowledge on goats, another great video with some laughs
Hello, i like your your channel, and personally i find it very helpful and valuable guidance for new goats start ups ! Me personally your videos added a lot to my goat farming experience ! despaite the fact that am raising goats in Sudan in Africa. Keep up the brilliant job you and your family doing , cheers BIG UP!
I’m not a goat person nor do I own goats but if n when I do u r my goat to guy so thank u very much on all the information n God bless
Another great video there Daniel catch you tomorrow
Your biggest fan from Jamaica 🇯🇲 watch your videos everyday. Very great information about goats. Going to start my Goat Farm soon 👍🏻
Got my shirt yesterday! Love it! Thank yall 😄
Awesome!
Ohmyword ...Great info Daniel. Your buck noises are spot on!!!
Love the dapple brown does! Very pretty!
Nice looking herd! That Buck is very handsome! Thank you for all the info, I'm just starting in the world.of goats! ♥️
Well Daniel, you've got me convinced. I am on the look out for some Kiko goats. Sadly, not seeing a lot in my area, yet. But I have just begun my search so hopefully some will turn up before too long.
Thanks so much for makng these videos. You are explaining things well.
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Thanks for the useful info, especially about the benefits of kidding in late winter in cold climates.
A lot of helpful information regarding goat breeding. Thank you.
Your buck is handsome. Good info.
Nice to see a goat update. I found your channel by googling Kiko goats. 😊
I love the goat vids because I don’t have any. One day I hope!
That goat got some Big Balls!! I'm impressed 🤣🐐
We have a giant herd of kikos and its kidding season. Its so much fun! Every goat has a unique personality.
I just love watching your channel
Awesome my does are coming into heat. My big ole red buck is chasing tail. Btw I lmao’d at 3:11 haha
Skip looks so small when she was near big boy. I think you have a great idea about putting her with the wether. I would be scared he would break her back.
The video was very great 👍
That was some great goat Ventriloquism. You should probably take that on the road. You are on to something
I put my buck in August 14th. With my first batch of 7 does. I only have 7 kidding pens. And 13 does to breed. I will put the other 6 in October.
Love your videos. I run commercial bóers. Would like to buy a couple of your females when they are ready to go next year and I happy to pay more than the auction. I have been thinking about going with a Kiko billy. I am only about an hour and a half away. Cheers!
My wife does the same with our small herd. We have 17 myotonic's or (fainting) goats and we are just fixing to turn Scotty loose on the girls. he is smelling ripe, him and Yang both are ready. late Winter births we believe are the best just because like you said NO BUGS!!!!!
Glad to see this I don't want to wait until my Nubian is a yr old I'm hoping to be milking by spring. And Nubians are known for being seasonal breeders so if I miss this fall season I would have to wait until next fall meaning I wouldn't get milk until 2020 which is ridiculous considering the amount of money I'll be spending on feed and hay with nothing to show until 2020
thanks for the practical information
Great video!
You guys are awesome 👏
Earned a new sub 👍
I raise Nubians and have a really nice Nubian Billy.
I also raise Nigerian Dwarves and last year our Nigerian Dwarf Billy died. We were lucky enough to get one of his sons and I'm gonna save him back and raise him for future breeding.
Goats are good and usually I've not had any serious issues with any of them. A great versatile and adaptive animal. They can clear any lot of land you need cleared almost better than a pig and less mess.
I also raise rabbits. If you wanna fill a freezer quickly a pair of rabbits can easily do it in a year. I have 8 breeding does and 2 main breeding bucks and 2 second choice breeder bucks I case I change my mind at the last second. Depending on if I want to seel show rabbits or meat for the freezer.
We have chickens as well but they manufacture garden soil and poop breakfast everyday.
The simple life ain't always easy but I'd say it's always the same everyday just something different everyday.
Garden season is coming soon.
I am excited to start planting seeds again and making more of my own food to preserve.
Agreed. Late Winter/EARLY Spring kids and lambs works out best.
Good video Daniel thanks for the info. I know your buck pen is an old cattle corral but if you were to build a new buck pen can you describe in a video how you would build one and what type of material you would use. Thanks
I do the same with my Angus cows to calf from Dec. to Feb. March at the latest
About to the day. Lol we won’t be kidding here until Mother’s day if the calculators spot on.... But we’re under about 18” of snow and 0-30 deg for another few weeks yet.. We learned kidding earlier then that here would require heat lamps, and special barn needs as our weather can just be unpredictable until end of April early May.... Ours use Calf huts to kid in, they are just the right size for a Doe and her kids Ime. They are outside 24/7 unless they are in a stanchion in the barn to be milked (They are “Alpine”) I have been considering getting a Boer to cross.. But the Kiko’s sound more our speed. Great Videos.
That is a great looking buck
You have beautiful goats I love them
Bear has the most beautiful eyes! What a sweet boy! Liz Fish
Like your video I'm from Muskogee
Love your goat videos. Was hoping to hesr your buck make his crazy sounds.
We always raised goats, since I was real little. Wish we had some for the 5 acres. But everyone wants a arm or a leg for babies 🤷🏼♀️
I agree with leaving th buck with the does for sevreal months. We seperate them about a month[ before the does kid and we always have a wether to keep the buck company all winter
I didn't do well last year. Both of my girls aborted. Thinking maybe too soon. Hoping this year goes better. But I would like somewhere towards end of February-March because I am Iowa and we do get pretty cold in January.
Bear is such a cool dog.
I think for doeling breeding age, both factors should be considered. You could have a doeling born in early spring and she may be just heavy enough to be bred by late fall but I think allowing for physical maturity, which takes TIME, should be considered. I have a doeling who is just over 90 lbs. She was about 70-80 by the fall when she was born but I would've never allowed her to be bred because I knew she was an inherently smaller goat (but she had good mental and physical genes from her dad) and needed to put on a little age. Giving her body time to strengthen over a year, I'll see how she does this March when she kids. :D I did the same for her 4 half-sisters and they all grew really well and are well reinforced for carrying Savannah kids. :3 Awesome video and footage all the same!
Best chanel I have watch
I think your goats look great they have a good. Watch. Dog. Takeing care. Of them bear is a very good. Dog thanks sincerly yours. Mr. Don
We put our buck with the does about the middle of June for kids at the end of November. Southern Missouri.
We seem to get good prices for the kids in Feb.
the only dairy goat that breeds year around that I'm aware of is the Nigerian Dwarf Goat which is fine by me considering they have the highest butterfat content of 6% - 10% hence having the sweetest tasting milk of any dairy goat.
I have my does kid in December and January and my seep lamb in Nov., Dec. and Jan.
Does are such a tease! We made jerky, n hot links! Kidding in winter was a nitemare!
Beautiful buck.
Always good
Good video
*Well. Constructed*
OU goat boot camp coming soon.great info thanks trouper dan.
Lol! OSU! Never confuse those two schools!
Does Bear ever come home smelling like carcus and Mr. Arms not tell us? Lol. 😁
He is a beauty!
You must have read your mind. We were just talking about building our video about breeding. If I'm ever in your neck of the woods I'd love to buy you coffee at and maybe do a UA-cam collaboration.
Very Interesting
Thanks for all the info on the kiko goats. I love goat milk I love goat kefir I love goat yogurt I love goat ricotta cheese I love goat gelato! Can you tell that I love goats? I do not raise them but I'm blessed to have a wonderful person who lives near me who makes so many things from her goat herd. I wish I could have my own heard of dairy goats but I know that would be a little too much for me to handle right now but thanks for all the info on your meat goats because I never knew that people raise goats just for meat so you have taught us a lot about that thanks so much Journey on!
Have you ever tried buffalo milk yoghurt?
Love the update on the goats. I really like goats and would love to have some, but don't have the fence to keep them in. We had some about 7 or 8 years ago but the area we had them was not large enough. The front of the property has horse fence but the rest is barb wire. Is that the same billy you had last year he looks like the one that broke out and bred the goats early one year. About how many years do you keep a billy?
Yes he is the same one. It just depends on how many of his offspring you keep. If you hold back several doe kids most people will swap out bucks about every two years.
Love the boat imitation 😂
Blast spellchecker! GOAT imitation not boat!!!!!!
Excellent sir
Always enjoyable to see the goats and bear too.
Great info. You have just about convinced me to get a Kiko buck. How do you market your goats that you sell? Social media, website, word of mouth, farm magazines, auctions? Nice looking buck. Tim @ Hidden Meadow Farm
Mostly just through Facebook, Craigslist, and UA-cam.
Good day, I was wondering, since you and Mr. Brown went out late to collect eggs, were any of them frozen?
Kinda smart, in South Africa winter was not kind for me and so I lost a few, my neighbours lost a number of kids.
Your does are almost identicle to what I have in my heard of forty right now. I've had this heard for like fifthteen years now. My bucks are taller and longer, but not as thick through the mid section. I would agree with the idea is to get the best bucks possible, the biggest longest, tallest ones. After a couple of generarations the does should reflect a size upgrade. I always look to upgrade the Bucks, I rarly sale does.
Thank you. Sir^^
Bear is so cute 😍
We use to feed 1/2 lb/head to the ewes to get them to cycle
Hi I'm know to this goat from bessines...trying to raise some goat's..I'm in Jamaica were the weather is a bet different..but u teaching me a little knowledge..love it...but I want to know how to get my goat's to look healthy. I don't like when them look skinny....
Why do you not dye bag your buck
,like they do with sheep in the breeding season,
as an indicator that they have been serviced?
Thank you
Beautiful boy!
That's a beautiful buck. What kind of breed is he? Thanks for the videos.
Beautiful 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
How did you run your fencing? I want to start raising goats but need fencing
Good morning
Can you please give an idea about feeding,what do you feed them and how do you feed them?
I just posted a video about the feed we are using. Watch the one title UA-cam bought this for us.
How old or big should a buck goat be to breed? Friday I’m getting 2 older female boers, and Saturday I’m putting a deposit on a really nice buckling that’ll be ready for a new home in august…
Hello Daniel , What is the rule of letting the Bucks breed their off spring Does? Can sister and bother breed each other?
Thanks for the info! How many chances do you give a bad momma doe before you do something different with her? I have one doe she's my last boar, she was bottle fed and she had her first kids a week ago. She's the worse mother ever. I'm blaming it on her being bottle fed and these are her first kids. Would yall give her another chance or send her down the road?
I love Lambert
I live in whitstable U.K. and we always seem to have one flock of sheep breed lambs early February in seasalter which is earlier to everywhere else In southern U.K. I wonder why that is? Is it because of pestilence or just getting lamb onto the market earlier?
Does the billy ever cause any problems with aggression towards you, or the family? Are they hard to handle? I know having bred one with good behaviour is important, but even so, when it comes to his females, I guess you have to be a little careful.?
He has never been aggressive towards us but it is possible with them during breeding season for sure.
Arms Family Homestead So I guess you put him out, and that's why you just leave him to it till all the ladies are taken care of?
You're really making me think about getting some goats btw. Take a few years before I'm able, unfortunately, but planning is fun too.
I have a question. My nanny kidded this spring and could not let her milk down. I had to bottle fed them (twins). She was full. I massaged her warm compresses coconut oil nothing worked. I don't have a good goat vet so no advice from him. He gave her pitocin which did nothing. Im afraid to breed her again. Whst should i have done
I understand the issues, but I don’t have a great answer on how to solve it. You could cull her or give her one more chance. You never know. She might do better the next time around.
Are you planning on getting a back up breeder soon to keep from cross breeding to daddy
I am starting a herd with around 300-500 goats what amount of land should I use?
Is it good or bad for goats to drink out of a tank?
Which month is the best for breeding?
whats the name if the big male goat you got there
Nice
Hi I like it how can shift at nepal did you have any idea please thank you
Lmfao. Your BUCK IMPERSONATION was the highlight of my day