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About Goatlady
Expertise
Specializing in New Goat Owner understanding of goat physiology, goat anatomy, goat care and herd management. *I am not a veterinarian, any advice and information should be verified by your veterinarian before administering to your goats. (! During times of severe weather in the Midwest, I may experience a delay in internet service due to the interference of the satellite reception - but will answer your questions as soon as service is restored. !) Note: Keep in mind, the goat expert is volunteering her time to help other goat owners, she also runs her farm with her own herd of 100 goats and may not be at her computer at all hours. Questions are answered as soon as she can possibly read and answer them, usually within 24 hours.

Experience
18 years experience of raising goats and herd management. Active hands on experience with goat herd and research with various Caprine University Research and Extension Centers nationwide. 15 years dedicated to helping other goat breeders/owners with goat anatomy, goat disease and goat health care issues via phone, published goat care articles and internet interaction. The information I have to offer is not only from personal experience and years of research updated often as new information is made available to me, but supported by many Veterinary Research colleges and all medications and information I have to offer on how the medications work and what dosages "I" use, is information I have acquired by discussing directly with the company's veterinarians and staff research experts.

Organizations
5 year active member of International Veterinary Information Service

Publications
United Caprine News, Homesteaders Magazine, Columnist for Goat Magazine, Owner and Author of GoatPedia™

Education/Credentials
Graduate Programs in Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University

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Goats - Is my Female Goat ready?

Expert: Goatlady - 10/31/2009

Question
Hi I have a 6 month Female Goat but I was wondering when can she have sex with a male Goat so she can have her Babies and how many can a Female Goat have?

Answer
*HI Joel,
Female goats "can" get pregnant as young as 3 months of age but it is always best to allow the doe (female goat) to fully develop before you ask her to use her energy to make a baby .. typically the ideal age for breeding is 18 months old so she kids at about 2 yrs old. - NO less than a year old making her 18 months old when she kids (approx) - gestation (length of pregnancy) is approximately 5 months. A doe (female goat) can have as many as 5 kids and some have only one. Much depends on the breed of goat- Nigerian Dwarf Dairy goats often have quads, while often angora goats have a single kid. The most common is twins, next is single kids and then triplets. Quads and Quintuplets are not the norm excepting in certain breeds.
I have some good articles on breeding and kidding on my website..

Goat Breeding information:
http://goat-link.com/content/view/78/33/
Goat Kidding information:
http://goat-link.com/content/view/36/33/

Hope this helps.
goatlady
Goat-Link.com

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