Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope?
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(10-11-2017, 07:59 PM)GoldenTreePackGoats Wrote: Currently I have my does, Pluto, and Huck together. Then Kingsley, Rafiki and Bagheera. 
I want my pregnant does separate from my boys and also for my packers/potential packers to be housed together so they can form their pecking order for the trail. 

At this point I'm trying to decide whether the additional goat should be a lamancha or oberhasli kid to house with him, or if I should just do a Nigerian. I would like to consider a lamancha or oberhasli doe so that next year hopefully I can house Rafiki, and the new doe with our older does. 

So far its a scattered plan, but we are figuring logistics. Thank you for the input on his size. I can't even imagine him at 100 pounds but fingers crossed he gets to the triple digits.

You'll be surprised how much a goat grows between 10-15 months! 

Why don't you try putting Rafiki in with your does and move Pluto and Huck in with the other boys? Even though the girls are probably much bigger than Rafiki right now, they will likely be gentler with him than the other boys once they're used to him, and the girls will soon stop growing as much. I've found that boys and girls don't fight with each other nearly as hard as girls fighting with girls or boys fighting with boys. 

Personally, I would skip the Nigerian. They're cute, but they can be hard to keep fenced and they have a tendency toward obesity. Since Rafiki may need free choice access to food, you don't want him with a goat that needs to be kept on a diet. If you get him a companion, I think a doeling would be a good choice.
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RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 04-16-2017, 12:24 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by IdahoNancy - 04-17-2017, 02:09 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by IdahoNancy - 04-17-2017, 08:23 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 04-17-2017, 10:17 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 04-20-2017, 07:45 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Taffy - 04-20-2017, 02:46 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-11-2017, 10:15 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-12-2017, 10:03 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Perry - 10-11-2017, 09:15 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-12-2017, 05:08 PM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-24-2017, 10:28 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-25-2017, 07:53 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-26-2017, 07:35 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 10-27-2017, 09:57 AM
RE: Aspiration Pneumonia - Hope? - by Nanno - 03-15-2018, 02:02 PM

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