Our does had their first kids this spring and we kept one doeling and her brother. We neutered the buckling at 8 weeks with the "ritchey nipper" (recommended on the Fiasco Farm site). His left testicle shrank as expected and the right kept growing. W
Read more…She's 4 months old and still nursing her mama. She weighs 45 pounds! Should I take away all grain from her? She only gets a little morning and night when the mama's are on the milk stand and the kids get a small bowl. I don't think she ever eats more
Read more…This morning my 9 month old buck is acting "off", lethargic and obviously not well. His eyelids are deep pink, poop normal, and is peeing fine. I just took his temperature and it is 105.7! I called my vet but he is out of town. I do have pen-G, shoul
Read more…One of my two little doelings is acting a bit off. I called the people I purchased her from and they don't really think I should be that concerned but of course I am.
- this morning when I went out to change the feed and do my routines I noticed one
Read more…Just joined this forum and this is my first post. I have 3 Nigerian Dwarf does who recently had 2 kids each. We have a small pasture area that we are preparing to let them into once the kids are a little bigger. It has a lot of California poppy's and
Read more…I have a doe who is anemic and thin. Poop normal, coat is in good condition but taking a while to shed out, and hooves seem softer and weaker than they should be. No fish tail or fading. Normal appetite.
I give COWP every three months, as well as
Read more…Please help! I noticed diarrhea in my 6 week old buckling this morning and immediately gave him 3cc's of DiMethox 12.5% for coccidia. Tonight he has mucus-like diarrhea and I'm thinking he should already have relief from it from the dose this morning
Read more…This seems so strange, but I have a 3 week old doeling who's face seems to be growing faster than her hair is filling in! She is mostly white, and the hair seems to be so fine over her eyes and down her nose that (I think) she's even getting a bit p
Read more…This will depend on the results of my fecals...I was planning to run them today but the test tubes did not come so now I will do them tomorrow. But if my Ivermectin cocktail still didn't work I am going to have to go to cydectin. I know the margin
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Triplets were disbudded on the 24th. Of course it was awful to see their pretty little heads as it always is. Everything around here was fine, lots of jumping, hopping, running, etc. Then Monday afternoon (the 28th), my littlest/
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I have a 9 year old doe that hasn't been with a buck for nearly 5 years and lives nowhere near an intact male (nothing within 20miles). However, I noticed this week that she seems to be developing a udder. She's had kids before, so I've alway
Read more…Hi guys...my doe Reba is not well. She recently had her kids weaned off, the buck was sold and I moved her doeling to another pasture @ 8.5 weeks because she is a heavy milker and I left a single doeling on another heavy milker and she got so fat it
Read more…I wrote about the autopsy which was performed at a meeting of the local goat club in early May.
One of the other interesting items presented at that meeting was the results of a study conducted by the state (Victoria) agricultural veterinarian on the
Read more…Doe kidded 3 weeks ago, has slowly developed a limp and not wanting to put all her weight on that leg. affecting her eating. She had triplets one was born rump first - legs under (Frank breech?) the kid shot out with no time to try to do anything.
Sh
Read more…This morning while milking Starlight, I found she had a lump on her udder in the rear, about half way between the top of the udder and her teats, very near the medial, but to the right. It's about the size of a marble, and there seem to be two much
Read more…I have a doe who has developed a lump on the TOP of her neck. It is right at the top in the center of her neck. I did a full body shave on her a couple days ago and today I noticed this lump. What could it be? I always worry about CL but I don't thin
Read more…What kind would this be? I am giving her a dewormer today. Her eyelids are pink but not dark. She pooped big clumpy poo with mucusy stuff and I could see worms in it! They're not big (like dog worms) but long and skinny and very small.
Read more…My goats last got their copper bolus (4g) in early February. 3 months ago.
Is it possible that being pregnant and nursing - the girls need more copper sooner than the "normal" 4-5 months?
Just pondering.....
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