We always keep the pregnant does that are two weeks before they kid close to the house. It makes checking for problems much easier and they are closer if they need help. Does with kids are kept in a shelter pen for a day or two with access to paddock, weather permitting.  Any kids that are a bit wobbly on their legs get a couple of mls cod liver oil. I also found cod liver oil cleared up runny, watery eyes (Pat Cobey’s book) Next they go to the electric fence paddock where there is a light shinning out into the paddock at night this seams to keeps the fox’s away sometimes we have a radio broadcasting. If a goat is bellowing for a time its usually got a leg or head caught in a fence. When kids are born they get a neck band to id them later. Six weeks kids get 5 in 1 and an ear tag. Bucks sometime fight if they can see another buck on the other side of the gate and do alot of damage to the gate we have found if we repair the gate with a sheet of corrigated iron(cut to size & painted ) tec screwed to the frame of the gate,saves the gate and the bucks can not see each other…. well not at the gate anyway. I got Peter to make me some square frames out of hard wood, that would fit an ice cream container in. So if I have a goat in a pen,    they don’t knock over the feed or water and  easy to clean a bit of recycling.

I always keep gates ect left leaning against a shed wall tied to something. This means that goats can’t pull it over and get stuck under it. A kid pulled a small gate over on its self and died before I found it.

We grow tagasaste trees along fence lines and feed out cut branches,also a bit of mistletoe and sometimes cut branches from the wild cherry trees in the bush which is not very nourishing but goats like it.