[Daisys Mum]

 
Girls are both being kept in a stable until they get to know us, I am feeding adlib hay, a handfull of goat mix and giving a few apple tree prunings daily along with a bit of apple or carrot.
What more should they be having and what other plants/hedge/trees can I feed them. They also have a red rockie in the stable but don't seem to have touched it.

[Brucklay]

Hope the goats are doing well DM, we don't feed that many 'extras' but they do like willow and that tall purple flowered plant you get on embankments - tried dried fruit but I ended up eating that!!

[Daisys Mum]

 
Goats are doing well, they will be going out tomorrow into their paddock, at the moment this has a section taped off with electric fencing for a fat shetland pony do you think that I should remove the bottom strand so the goats can get under as I am worried about them getting tangled up in it.

[Brucklay]

Are they horned Daisys Mum?

[Daisys Mum]

 
No they are not horned.

[Brucklay]

Well I don't have any experience with electric fencing but if my goats are anything to go by, yours will probably want to wiggle underneath it 

[Daisys Mum]

Well I don't have any experience with electric fencing but if my goats are anything to go by, yours will probably want to wiggle underneath it 

Oh well thats ok as they would just get in to the pony's paddock

[Daisys Mum]

 
Put them out today and they went straight under the gate and back into the stable so i think this may take a while. Will try them again tomorrow and stay with them for a bit perhaps that will help.

[goosepimple]

Hi Anne, we give ours dried apricots and prunes both of which they go mad for and hobnobs and digestives occasionally.  Hay all the time.  A cupped hands full of food each goat twice a day.  Don't worry about the rock - I worried about ours not licking it - I now occasionally hammer a bit of it to a powder and mix it in their food which they eat without problems.  It'll be a week before they settle - are they in kid?
 
Get the pics on. 

[Sbom]

Just a thought, but you could try feeding them in the paddock. I let mine out in the morning and they follow me to there paddock and have there breakfast, at night I open the gate and they follow me back into the stable for tea. Works well here anyway 

[Brucklay]

Mine see rain clouds 5 miles away so any hint of rain and they stay on - don't think it's your paddock it could well be looming rain clouds 

[Daisys Mum]

 
Girls came out this morning and ate breakfast in the paddock but the minute I left them they came screaming after me, got a lot on today delivering the butchered pigs so will hopefully be able to spend more time out with them tomorrow. I just love the way they come for cuddles now, the first couple of days they were very timid.
Dont know if they are in kid yet, how will I know?

[tizaala]

How much do I feed the Pygmys?
 
About three missionaries a day should do...

[Lesley Silvester]

If they don't come into season in the next month or so, they probably are.  You can have them scanned by the vet but it costs, of course.

[goosepimple]

Hmmm...saying that our pygmies didn't come in to season until November....maybe they are earlier whe n there is a smelly billy around