BATTLE FOR THE BARN!- Introducing A New Goat To The Herd
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- We are introducing our Nubian goat to our Nigerian Dwarf goats. Goats have a "pecking" order and they will just have to fight it out to decide who is Queen Of The Barn.
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if it doesn't feel like work then its the right path you are on, how wonderful!
Thank y'all for sharing. Having been an over the road truck driver for over 20 years I missed out on life and even seeing our grand children grow up. Thanks to y'all and the Rhodes family for sharing.
You guys are such an inspiration to all of your fans. I love watching your videos and learning from them. Less than a year ago I knew nothing about keeping chickens. But thanks to you and Justin Rhodes I now own 8 and love them. They are such amazing creatures. I hope you all have a good day. Thank you for your videos.
I agree with you, Bri. I think all of your children do a great job remembering their manners!
Briana is a legend with goats you are just so good at caring for them
Hi...... Art and Bri, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
I loved when you introduced the new goat. Their posturing for "top goat" was almost like a ballet when you put the music in there...thanks for sharing. This family is really expanding and I feel they do so well is because of your calm and peaceful voice. It comes across to them as a calm place to be. Have a Blessed day. Margaret
Thank you Margaret.
I think it's so funny that the babies were running around them
Arianna Black :)
'Sometimes I forget my manners'..... How cute and sweet. Started my day off with a smile. I am enjoying your journey with the goats. Keep up the good videos and honest, clean content.
Judy Homesteader that made me subscribe. That sweet little girl smiling. Something nice in the world for once.
Wonderful video. Loved your comments on discovering your new animal happiness o.- & watching Joyful skip was perfect little addition...all your kids are so sweet. :) I remember your earlier videos, as a nursing mommy in a houseful of kids with tons of laundry heaped on the couch and you struggled just to get dressed let alone chores done. But now, here you are happily beathing that early morning mist air & loving your livestock chores...so happy you have found an inner purpose.
The struggles of course are not gone but we are really having fun.
So fun! My wife has wanted goats for awhile, but I've been resistant. I've never had any goat milk, but I'm not a huge fan of goat cheese. Your videos have convinced me to give them a try and try to find a breed with good milk. Their production and land needs are way more appropriate for our family than a cow anyways. Thanks for the inspiration!
From what I have "read' Nigerians and Nubians have the sweetest and creamiest milk. It also has a lot to do with if you have a buck, handling and storage procedures and how fresh it is. Nigerians give very little milk, so you may want to consider a larger breed. They do have the highest butterfat content, so I am hoping to make butter with their milk. I have never had goat butter, so we will see how that goes!
ART and BRI Thanks for the response. We just moved to our place last summer, and we're hoping to get after it this year with lots of new homesteading fun! Thanks for the info and inspiration! 🖒
Nice to see you here, Eric! It seems we're on a similar track.
joyce jay Good to see you as well! It does appear we're walking a similar path. 😉😀
Keep in mind you will be predisposed to female goats as goat meat is not well established in our food culture(how often do you see it at the supermarket?), so it will be difficult to justify expenses in rearing billy goats for meat.
Of course that means that you most probably will be forced to kill of most of the new born males, its a sad practice that is very difficult to avoid.
I would do some research to find any regional opportunities, like local specialty food producers, hell what you want is immigrants and their mothers cooking.
It was pretty amazing to watch that first interaction. The baby goats didn't mind her at all, it was so cute the way they followed her around. Really enjoying these new beginnings.
Your girls are so well mannered, your and your hubby are doing great parenting. I also can't wait to see your other goat deliver her babies. It must be exciting! God Bless your family and home.
Thanks! I hope I get to see her deliver her babies too ! If only she was predictable.
I applaud your Choice debud them young , I've seen it done early and the later. It's so much better young.
thank you for sharing this adventure- I love goats, and have never been around them this closely on a daily basis, just watched with great enjoyment from across a fence
Its my first time watching one of your videos. What an enjoyable time. I've always wanted to have the farm life and lived on a farm for about 8 yrs.But as a farmhand. I'd loved to live out the rest of my life working the land.My name is George and I've been told that is Latin for farmer. Just wish I was a little younger but totally believe it's in my blood and nothing is impossible. What a beautiful family you have. 🇺🇸👍✌🙏
Trust me,don't get into goats if you don't want to get addicted. It becomes a passion very quickly,before you know it,it's got you. I know this because it got me too:)
Baby goats are the cutest things
So well said. Week one with my new Nigerian dwarf babies
I'm loving learning along with you. Can't wait for more babies to your exploding flock!
Yay! The herd is integrated!
My sweet goats are 'therapy' for me. I love them so much and you are so right when you say there will be good times and sad times. I think the good times always outweigh the sad though. I never look forward to dehorning our babies. I just go to the house and come back when it's over. We have one horned alpine mix goat and we've had to cut the fence to free her or either pull her head out. Not fun so we dehorn now. Enjoy your new goat and let us know what her new name is! 🐐🐐🐐🐐
Absolutely love your homestead and aspiring for just like it. So wonderful to learning and teaching at the same time!! Thank touch ❤️
I am so jeoulous. I live in a huge city. I have fallen in love with baby goats. I want to at least hold one. Cutest animal ever...keep following your passion
You and Art have such a wonderful family!!
Until you have goats, you just can't understand the amazing JOY they bring into your life. I'm so happy you and your family are getting to experience this! You all are doing an amazing job with the goats. And thank you for sharing your journey with us.
another great day on the homestead indeed. a wonderful daydream of happiness 😍xxx
Lol omg when she touch the fence it scared me I literally jumped lol
Looks like they are going to be a happy herd! Looking forward to the next new babies video!
This year I am working to get out of debt. Next year the homestead will be mine. I want goats, I already have chickens and turkeys. Still want rabbits and ducks. So excited about your new babies and future babies. Great job with the kids/children.. The manners comments made me smile.
Good luck on debt.
What a lovely set up you guys have. I wish I had a bigger garden for goats.
Best wishes
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing!
Goats are awesome. So glad you are enjoying them so much. Baby goats are just the best. The girls will sort out who is boss of the barn. Best wishes to your family :)
Awesome family and video. Really like the channel.
Thank you!
Thumbs up #28.....Too cute.
I love the twins...they are just hopping around.
You can also add diatomaceous earth to their feed, and it is a dewormer. Also, your girls are the sweetest!
just a tip i found helpful. when administering the herbal wormer individually i mix it with a small amount of water and molasses and administer with a syrine. I found it to be a more controlled and easier experience. I use the herbal wormer from fiasco farm.
Thanks.
I just love today's video!! The music is woven into the video so well!! You can see the love that you all have for the goats. The girls are just darling and very well "mannered". Thanks for sharing with us your adventures. :-)
I like the morning sunrise and music, good feel to it.
you're doing such a great job with the goats.
Coco, didn't want to make a fuss with Flopsie...she didn't want apart of that fuss...I think she was more concerned over her babies... :)
Enjoy your vlog, Totally understand what your saying. I have chickens and ducks, they are a joy even cleaning the pens.
love the goats..had them when I was younger. Miss the chickens too.
Yay! More baby goats soon:)
Bri, I'm really enjoying watching your beginnings with goats. Reminds me of when I got my sheep. Good luck with Loveys kidding! :)
Bri, you are so lovely! Such a good Momma to all of the little ones on your homestead!
You're a cutie pie Joyful! You're all adorable kids!
It all works out...Nice going....
Oh that's so funny...I just said the same thing about you in the other video as you said about yourself here: You said that this is the life for you...and I just noted that in your other video! I knew I saw a twinkle of happiness in your eyes! Lol!
I always watching your channel. Thank you Briana...take care. ANGELI here from Bohol, Philippines
Awh Levi! Good luck in labour girl! And wow I loved this video
awesome video thanks
We just got a 6 month old goat today, and two days ago we got a four month old and idk how to introduce them to each other the older one took his horns and tried to throw him by his belly(both males) I don’t know what to do! We may have to get rid of the older one and get our young sweet one a female his age. He’s so fragile and so sweet and loves attention and being petted and does good he hasn’t rammed me all he wants is his head scratches
You can't just say lovey is in labour and end the video 😂😂
She turned out to not be in labor - but if she was it would have been very very early labor.
Whew !
Yes she can
She can say whatever she wants.
Bri, you have the sweetest personality. I love to watch your videos! We got our first flock of chickens last year and are looking for 2 Nigerian dwarf does to add to our new adventure!
If you live in the Asheville area, I will have two does for sale soonish.
Bri... your smile isinfectious!!!!
I want goats, but I don't have anywhere to put them. I love my chickens and no, it doesn't seem like work, it is enjoyable to feed them and keep their water clean. When it is spring and summer we like to sit out in the back yard and watch them and talk to them. I love that each chicken has his own personality. Now, I added rabbits to my mini farm. I didn't get them for food, just for their fertilizer. They are miniature lion heads. Along with 8 cats and a dog we also have 525 sq feet of planting space. We can't afford to move to the country, so we made a country scene in our back yard.
Great use of a small space.
Maybe you could put a little plywood ramp up to the milking stand? That may make it easier for you to walk them up there and also save your back from lifting? Just a thought 😘
Once they realize the delicious grain is up there they will run and jump on the stanchion each time they are let loose. It only takes a few times for them to learn.
Exciting and fun video.
Coco backed away from honey and lovely was challenging honey
P.S hope lovely gave birth to her kids safely
That dynamic was very interesting to me as well. Before now Cocoa was definitely the head goat and when it is just her and Lovey, she still is. You can see it when they eat. Lovey always defers to Cocoa.
Great video ! We just picked up two new dairy goats this past week . They are Saanen due to have little ones in June. We are so excited.
That is very exciting!!! I have been looking at Saanens lately.
Have you thought about a lamancha? Our oldest is almost 9 years old and gives 3/4 gallon a day. Our youger lamancha is due Feb. 15th. I am so excited.
Yes, I have! I would love to know what their milk tastes like?
My kids say it's just like whole cow milk but better. It is a little sweeter but it depends on their diet. We feed grass hay, alfalfa and grains. And fruit and veggie snacks and table scraps.
I think it might help to lead Honey to the end of the milking stand where she would have to jump up on the stand to get to the feed. With all of my goats it was always much harder to have them get on the stand from the middle than it was leading them to the end
Good tip! Lovey and Cocoa just hop right up, so I didn't even think of this.
It may be helpful also to have a little ramp. I have Alpines and Oberhasli and think the larger goats prefer the ramp. It worked for mine. Doing great, Bri!
I like the time lapse
Is an intro needed for kids born into the herd.
My herd queen is attacking the new mother who had twins less than 24 hrs ago.
I chose to separate the mother, a first time freshener, because I didn't know how the birth would go. I allowed brief interactions yesterday which was very gentle and loving. The herd queen and new mom are sisters. They brushed heads and licked each other. Then the herd queen ate all the grain I had out for her. Lol but that was it. Everyone else ignored her.
I had the new mom and kids sleep in her birthing stall in the barn and everyone else slept outside (where there is a shelter) like normal. There is pretty heavy predator pressure here,, so until the dam stops bleeding, I just feel very cautious. This morning I felt like it would be fine and was OK with them sorting out pecking order (within reason); mohawks, fighting, gouging with horns and the babies got caught in the mix. There was no letting up and my herd queen had a rep for being a bully. After that, I pulled my other goats and put them out in the pasture.
I'm not sure how to approach this. I don't want these tiny babies to get crushed to death, but am I making it worse by prolonging the pecking order behaviors?
thanks for this video, I want Ducks but I am so scared to try something new that I don't know anything about. But now after this video I want to try even more.
Duck are great fun even though they are the messiest of poultry. They have great personalities and are quite friendly if you get some that are raised right or raise them yourself. They are easy to keep.
I don't have goats. I have always wanted them but my husband's self-employment didn't send our life adventure that way. Instead he brought me home three new hens I did not want and he expected I would get up early every morning and take care of them. I'm doing it out of love for any animal and read and ask things I need to know. I've always been that way about animals so I think that's how my husband figured I would care for them and I do a great job but I'm not happy about it because I have much chronic pain and physical problems and bending over and stooping and standing back up is one thing this job requires a lot. Also, my sleep gets messed up so maybe I just got an hour sleep and then the hens woke me up to feed and water them or whatever else they needed.
Enjoy your hens.
OMG I love your videos so much I watch them every day and night good signs for lovie she will definitely have her baby's soon and it looks like they are going to be really healthy how many is she going to have
I love that Rosey's name has become Wild Rose. Seems like u picked their names just right. Now.....when the new girl became the Queen of the Barn........you called her Flopsy. I hope it stays, it suits her. Hoping you will be telling your considerations on milking preparations as you go.
Flopsy does suit her! I find that I can't call her honey or sweetheart. So I think Flopsy it will be.
The thumbnail pic freaked me out! Goatman Apocalypse!
lol...of course when we want to show our kids off they don't behave...that was cute..
another cool video guys
Thank you!
I just love seeing your goat adventures. I am getting my farm set up for a couple of milk goats and I am so excited watching and learning from you. How did you find your goats 🐐 especially from people you can trust? I live in Mocksville NC. If you know of anyone in our area. I just love seeing how involved Grace wants to be with the goats. She is old enough for 4H and could really learn a lot through 4H. Also the other little girl (I don't know her name) is adorable too. Please keep the wonderful video coming.
Thank you. We got our goats through friends who were selling them. If/when we buy more I think we will be buying registered so that we can guarantee good milking lines and sell the babies for more money. Grace and Joyful are both in 4-H.! We love it!
This was a fun one. This is going to be kind of a weird suggestion but for training, look at the book Don't Shoot the Dog. It's by Karen Pryor and she has trained all kinds of things- even dolphins. That book happens to be about dogs but the theories can be used with any animal (even humans). Are you going to get one of the fancy cream separators? One of the reasons I'm hesitating about goats is because I want cream and from what I understand, their milk doesn't separate like cow milk does so you have to get a machine or something to do it.
I am not sure, but I am looking into it. I really want to have butter. However I have no idea if goat butter even tastes good! I may just have to wait until I get a cow.
the quality is going way up ! :)
I love the titles haha, keeps me hooked
I really wish people wouldn’t disbud goats. If you show goats then you have to or you’re not allowed to compete but outside of that the horns don’t have to be an issue. There’s fencing that is safe for horned animals & there’s a RUclipsr with a herd of goats where some have horns & some don’t. He says he’s never had a horn related accident or injury on his farm. When the headbutt each other they don’t use the horns, they’re mostly taking the impact on their reinforced skull plate. If you’re reading this & you aren’t sure about it then consider doing the research yourself. If you’re reading this & thinking I’m completely wrong that’s ok too, I hope you give your hornless goats a wonderful life. People don’t have to agree on everything to still be good people (I feel like the internet forgets that a lot)
Maybe lead her to the back and make her mount the stand that way. Then she can't reach the food until she is on the stand. Just an idea 😊
I tried that today. No luck. She wouldn't even get on the stand for me today. I need to do a little reading.
ART and BRI hmm... well what a stubborn goat! She will get it I'm sure. You seem super patient
awesome video but noooooooooooooooooooo you can leave with that teaser!
I don't have goats and don't know a lot about them, but I would be careful about leaving the new goat with the others until after Lovey has her kids. Seeing how Flopsy is rearing up and butting the others, I would be concerned that she could butt Lovey in the abdomen and potentially hurt her or the kids inside. Just a thought. Love your videos and I'm enjoying learning right along with you. Rose and Lady are so darned cute. Can't wait to get goats of my own some day. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing.
I can understand your concern. I stayed down there the whole time they were figuring it out. It was all over very quickly. The new order was established and every one is peaceful now. Just a note: Flopsy never paid any aggressive attention to the babies. She just looked at them and walked away every time they were near.
I just love your videos about your animals, particularly the goats. Do you have any herd guard animals? Folks where I live like to use jenny donkeys as guards.
Just wondering. Love your videos and philosophy of animal Care.
Ai wish I had more goats like I use to have 4 now 3 my goat jazzy died
can you tell me the name of that musikpiece. love it!
Throw the pies
please make a video like you did when coco was in labor
I love your goats. I've had Nubians in the past and have had mixed breed Nigerian dwarf/mini LaManchas for the past 7 years. Please tell about the fish meal you use in the chicken feed. My feed store does not stock fish meal. Where do you get yours? What is the brand you get so that I can either order it myself or have my store order it?
Hi Gina. I would suggest looking at the feed brands that your feed store does carry, then visiting the company websites and looking at their whole product lines. It would be much easier to add a product from a company they already work with then add a new company.
if my goats still have their horns should I still let them fight it out?
Is someone coming to help you disbud? It can be tricky.
It is done now.
I am proud of you for disbudding the kids.
We did it today. Everyone did great!
Will there be a video?
Yes. Day after tomorrow. Occasionally we shoot two videos in a day, as we did today, so Bri can focus on school and not shoot a video. Not actually showing the disbudding first time around but will probably do a how to when we are more experienced. We just want to focus on the goats, not the camera. We explain why we and many folks make this call though.
I understand. That's very wise.
I hate that disbudding part...breaks my heart to hear them yelling mama. =(
It was not the best part of having goats, that's for sure.
Why did you not get a bill
When you bought Lovey and Cocoa how much did you pay for a bread doe?
They were each $250. They are not registered, otherwise they would have been quite a bit more.
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Why not sprinkle a bit of food-grade diatomaceous earth into their feed to get rid of the worms?
I am looking into it.
What will you do with any male goats that come along?
Our hope is to sell them.
Hey why you haven't started milking Coco yet? All the best lovey 🐐
Not yet. Will let you know when we do.
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I honestly feel like Im watching a Casey Neistat video. LOL
Did Lovie have her kids ?
Did she have them @art and bris
Not yet.
oh, when are you going to introduce a billy?
Not any time soon. We don't have a place set up for him and we would need to have somewhere well away from the girls.