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inches long, with wooden swivel in center. Leave them staked until after they are 

 marked and castrated and well owned by the mother. Sometimes kids are herded 

 with their mothers and sometimes by themselves until they learn to be herded. If 

 not handled properly and the kids are allowed to mix together, the doe loses the 

 scent of her kid, and young does will often disown them. — jP. 0. Landrum, Laguna, 

 Tex. 



This is the most critical period in the handling of goats. The kids are generally 

 collected daily, as soon as dropped and able to stand and suckle the mother, and are 

 confined in a corral for several weeks, much of the time tied to a stake driven into 

 the ground. It is not safe to let them run with the flock until they are a month to 

 six weeks of age, as they are liable to drop out of the flock and be lost. — Col. W. L. 

 Black, Fort McKavett, Tex. 



The kidding season is the time when the work and care comes. The kids are more 

 delicate than lambs, and require a great deal of care. — Harris & Baylor, Montell, Tex. 



The easiest way to get through kidding time is to put all the does that are soon to 

 bring kids in a separate small pasture where they can be looked up easily. In case 

 of bad weather they should be brought into their shed every evening before smadown; 

 but if the weather is dry and not too cold they can be left out, and all the does will 

 likely own their kids. Of course, the kids will not follow their mother as lambs do, 

 but will lie down in a thicket or under a bush, a weed, a log, or a rock, and remain 

 there till the mother comes back to it, even if it should have to wait till it starved to 

 death; but after a kid is a few days old it is able to follow its mother, although it is 

 best to keep the kids at home. Kids need not suck oftener than twice a day. — II. T. 

 Fuchs, Tiger Mills, Tex. 



I stake the kid in a barn for two weeks. The mother goes out in the daytime to feed 

 and is put with the kid at night. After two weeks the kid is turned loose and kept 

 in a pen until 2 months old, when it is allowed to go out with the flock. — Henry 

 Fink, Leon Springs, Tex. 



We keep the nannie and kid to themselves so far as possible for a day or so, and 

 do not allow more than 20 nannies and kids in the same pen until the kids are over 

 a week old, nor more than 50 nannies and kids in the same pen until 2 weeks old. 

 Kids are kej^t in the pen day and night until a month old, and are then allowed to 

 run outside the pen during the day to eat a little; the feed may be furnished them in 

 the form of cut branches if there are no bushes near the pen. They should also have 

 access to water after 4 weeks old. When 6 weeks old they can go out with the 

 flock for a few hours m the afternoon, the flock being brought in at midday for this 

 purpose. After eight weeks they can go regularly all day with the flock. We use a 

 bridge for the purpose of "cutting back" such kids as should not go out with the 

 flock. — W. G. Hughes & Co., Hastings, Tex. 



Protection from rain; confinement in a corral or small pasture until the kids are 

 6 weeks old. We allow the does to jump over a 21-inch board to get food and return 

 as they please. We separate all does every morning that will drop kids within two 

 or three days and keep them in a pasture by themselves. — Conklin Brothers, Newville, 

 Cal. 



I put nannies that are soon to kid in an open pasture (not bushy) . As the kids 

 come, gather them into a corral with a shed or barn in it, taking the mothers with 

 them. Keep the kids in the corral until they can jump over a 16-inch board, turn- 

 ing their mothers in and out evening and morning. At about 2 weeks of age they 

 are usually fit to rim with their mothers. — George A. Houck, Eugene, Or eg. 



I aim to have a field of fall grain or reserved pasture to turn does in a few days 

 before kidding commences, and turn the does in another pasture as fast as they drop 

 their kids. Keep the kids up about two weeks, then let them go with their mothers. — 

 Oscar Tom, Angora, Oreg. 



