[Jacob-list] Needing advice on Jacobs and goats

[Chris and Tina Griffin]

The best advice I can give is to get another goat as soon as you can.  The Jacobs will tolerate her but never really accept her and she will tolerate them but not really want to be with them.  Our goats and Jacobs do not really care for each other but they don't fight either.  You may be able to put her in with them, but she will still need a friend (just my opinion, others may have different experiences).
Chris
Griffin's Ark
Chatham, VA 24531 
(757)-617-9656

griffinsark at griffinsark.com
www.griffinsark.com



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I have 2 Jacobs - ram & ewe, about 4 months old pastured together at the moment.  Earlier this week I brought home a 2 month old Pygmy doe kid.  When I first saw her she was about a week old, so when I went back to pick her up this week was very surprised at how tiny she still is.  I'd say she is half the size of my young Jacobs, maybe even less than half!
 
As of now she is safe in a nicely bedded stall, but I think she's lonely since being taken directly from her flock.  I'd really like to pasture her out with the Jacobs as soon as possible.  However, my lamb ram already has a lovely 4 horn set........ I'm just afraid of a chance they won't accept the doe.  Can anyone advise me of precautions I should take?  Thank you for the advice!
 
Cindy

You live by writing your poems on a farm
and call that farming.


 









       
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