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Just Kidding and Raising Kids
Getting Started
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Record Keeping
Getting Ready for Kidding and Kids
Pregnancy (updated Jan. 2024) (15:59)
Feeding Goats During Pregnancy (added Jan. 2024) (14:54)
Hypocalcemia (added Jan. 2024) (10:13)
Pregnancy Toxemia (added Jan. 2024) (7:53)
Nutrition
Comparison of Goat Minerals
Kidding Supplies (updated Jan. 2024) (15:55)
Getting Ready (added Jan. 2024) (7:35)
Kidding Barn Tour (6:29)
Checking Udders and Tail Ligaments (9:52)
Moving Goats to the Kidding Barn (5:11)
Is your goat overdue? (5:59)
Shaving a Doe's Udder?
Labor, Birth, and Postpartum
Birthing - First Stage of Labor (updated Feb 2024) (20:11)
Birthing - Second Stage of Labor (updated Feb 2024) (29:55)
Manual Dilation of the Cervix (ADDED October 2023) (13:47)
Rectal prolapse (ADDED June 2023) (1:02)
Abortion and Stillbirth (updated Feb 2024) (19:07)
Umbilical Cord (added Feb 2024) (5:09)
After the Birth (Updated Jan. 2024) (24:38)
Placenta Photos
Doe eating placenta (2:09)
Retained Placenta (7:44)
Normal postpartum discharge
Postpartum: Talkative Mama (2:31)
Frances's Birth Videos
Frances 1: Labor (10:56)
Frances 2: Birth (twins - one breech) (11:49)
Frances 3: Kids (4:35)
Cicada's Birth Videos
Cicada 1: Birth (single kid, 10-year-old mom) (4:41)
Cicada 2: Kid Learning to Nurse (9:49)
Agnes's Birth Videos
Agnes 1: Labor (7:59)
Agnes 2: Birth (Kids 1 to 3) (12:46)
Agnes 3: Birth (another perspective of birth #3) (1:40)
Agnes 4: Kid 4 (0:51)
Agnes 5: Placenta (4:18)
Vera's Birth Videos
Vera 1: Kids 1 and 2 (11:08)
Vera 2: Kids 3 and 4 (includes mummified kid) (8:12)
Vera 3: Kid 5 or done? (6:43)
Vera 4: Kids Nursing (or not) (3:49)
Vera 5: Abnormal Placenta (1:26)
Vera 6: Mummified Kid (2:08)
Lady's Birth Videos
Twin birth with minor assistance (12:16)
Is there a third kid? (1:12)
Blanche's Birth Videos
Labor 1 (long first stage of labor) (11:22)
Labor 2 (calcium drench) (8:27)
Birth 1 (first kid) (7:59)
Birth 2 (second and third kids) (10:00)
Birth 3 (fourth kid) (6:11)
Ellie's birth
Complicated Birth 1 (10:42)
Complicated Births 2, 3, 4 (11:59)
Abnormal Placenta (1:17)
Ellie's third kidding (quintuplets without assistance!)
Labor (7:32)
First kid (using a bulb syringe) (4:30)
Second kid (8:30)
Third and fourth kids (3:31)
FIFTH kid! (7:03)
Victoria's birth -- C-section, schistosomus, mummified kids (added 2022)
Read this FIRST before other lessons in this section!
Live Training: Discussion of Victoria's Pregnancy, Labor, C-section, and Kids (74:58)
Discussion of Schistosomus Reflexus (deformed kid) (7:37)
First mummified kid delivery (1:53)
Standard Dairy Goat Births (added June 2023)
LaMancha birth (2:25)
Nubian birth (2:43)
Newborn Complications
Hypothermia (5:23)
Dehydration (7:08)
Hypoglycemia (2:33)
Tube Feeding (9:18)
When Everything You Can Do Is Not Enough (11:47)
Removing Liver and Lungs from a Newborn (6:11)
Contracted Tendons (added April 2024) (2:08)
Feeding Kids
Feeding Kids (added Feb. 2024) (46:43)
Pritchard Teats (13:33)
Milking Colostrum (4:23)
Bottle-Feeding 1: Agnes Doeling at birth (4:51)
Bottle-Feeding 2: Agnes Doeling at 1 day old (5:38)
Bottle-Feeding 3: Vera Doeling at 5 hours (6:21)
Syringe Feeding: Agnes Buckling (4:31)
Bottle-Feeding Information (Printable)
How much to feed baby goats? (Printable spreadsheet)
Monitoring Kids' Weight Gain (23:22)
Normal Nursing Behavior
Switching a Kid to a Bottle (added March 2024) (28:59)
Raising Kids
Newborn Poop (Agnes Doeling) (1:49)
Newborn Hooves and Umbilical Cord (Lady's Buck) (3:58)
Castration, IDs, and Barn Hygiene (10:38)
Castrating Bucklings with a Burdizzo (7:32)
Castrating Bucklings with a Side Crusher (Premier1) (3:51)
Photo Gallery: Appearance of Scrotum One Year After Castration
Side Crusher castration after two weeks and two months
Castrating a Yearling (ADDED June 2023) (2:18)
Burdizzo vs Side Crusher Discussion (24:12)
Fertility of Young Kids and Age at Castration (ADDED April 2023) (13:52)
Castration Failure with the Burdizzo and Banding (ADDED August 2023) (10:56)
How to Tattoo Kids (3:18)
How One Person Can Tattoo Kids (ADDED June 2023) (4:32)
Horns, Polled Goats, Disbudding
All About Horns (24:00)
Are these kids polled or horned? (10:14)
Disbudding 1 -- includes Step-by-Step Guide to Disbudding (5:29)
Disbudding 2 (5:10)
Disbudding 3 (4:47)
Disbudding 4 (5:25)
Disbudding a Buck (5:01)
Removing a Large Scur on a Yearling (ADDED June 2023) (1:37)
BONUS: Milking and Milk Handling
Raising Goats Naturally -- Chapter 12 -- Milking
When and How to Start Milking a Doe (28:31)
Tour of my milking parlor (5:33)
Getting a goat on the milk stand for the first time! (0:45)
How to do a CMT -- California Mastitis Test (ADDED June 2023) (3:24)
Pocket in the Fore Udder (ADDED October 2023) (0:44)
BONUS: Selling Kids
Writing ad copy and taking photos (added July 2023) (11:56)
Zoom Q&A Meeting Archives
Jan. 9, 2023 @ 7 p.m. central (130:44)
Jan. 19, 2023 @ 7 p.m. central (82:02)
January 31, 2022, 8 p.m. central (24:24)
Jan. 27, 2022, 8 p.m. central (93:30)
Feb. 4, 2021 @ 8 p.m. (113:49)
Jan. 27, 2021 @ 11 a.m. (134:33)
Jan. 21, 2021 @ 8 p.m. (95:20)
Jan. 13, 2021 @ 11 a.m. (97:56)
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Course Feedback Survey
Fertility of Young Kids and Age at Castration (ADDED April 2023)
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