Hello again.
My goat Iris has been displaying what I thought might be “buckish” characteristics. In the last two-three months she has become increasingly unfriendly. She has always been skittish despite being held, handled and loved since birth. For
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I supplement my does with monthly doses of Sel/Vit E Gel. It's easier than the BoSe injections for me. My one doe now has 3 week old kids, when do I need to start thinking about giving them this supplement? They are already eating the do
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I am putting a deposit on a buckling who is just about 10 days old right now. She told me she is going to put him on coccidia prevention but would not do it if I prefered she not. She also said she was going to deworm him with something
Read more…I found my doeling writhing on her side in pain around 10:30 last night. I brought her in and she grew worse during the night. Right when I brought her in I gave her nutridrench, she perked up for a bit, but then declined again. I tried to bottle fee
Read more…After 8months with us, our goats showed a "light load" in their fecal count...So now we have to give them some Ivemec...I picked up the pre-loaded syringes from my local vet office (my large animal vet was good enough to leave them for me since I had
Read more…As usual, I never know exactly where to put my posts. Anyway...how much grain should three 9 week old kids be eating (combined)? Two are bucklings and are weaned (sold their mama three days ago) and one is the single doe of a FF. They eat hay and th
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I saw an old post of yours where you are talking about feeding kelp free choice. I have a horse who may or may not have a htyroid problem and I have read up on kelp to possibly help him and one thing I kept seeing in the horse info was ne
Read more…I have two month old kids that I noticed this morning have runny noses. One of them the snot is green the other is not. They are acting normal. Running playing and eating. Took there temp and it is normal one temp is 102.8 and the other kids temp is
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I know it's been a long time since I've been on this site, but setting up a farm is some hard work and we had an exceptionally wicked Winter.. ANYWHOO, one of my does just gave birth yesterday and I'm in a pickle!! My doe had three kids..
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I'm bringing home 4 bucklings tomorrow - 3 of whom were imported from the US about 3 weeks ago to another farm in Canada. The 4th was one I'd sold who is now returning with these 3 due to owner's health.
Any suggestions on how to quarantine
Read more…I have a male goat that had his horns burnt by a vet at 1 week old and will be 5 weeks old on Saturday. I noticed today that one of his horns looks like it is growing back but the horn almost looks pink. The original burn scab has not fallen off, i
Read more…She is not doing well. She does not suck and mom isn't really interested in her. She is three days old. I gave her coffee and pedialite yesterday. She probably took less than an ounce. Then I took her temp . 100.1. I warmed her with rice bags in her
Read more…One of me Nigerian/pygmy mix doe is starting to go bald. She is under a bit of stress because we lost our pygmy doe due to enterotoxemia . We had to completely take all the grain away and now she is only getting hay and alfalfa cubes, along with a
Read more…According to my dad, one of our goats has fleas.
What do you think is the best way to get rid of them?
Read more…HI..I have a one year old Nigerian Dwarf that has recently lost is two bottom front teeth..is this normal or does anyone know what can cause this? Any help would be great..
Read more…Hey guys, I am hoping someone here can give me a heads up on what may be going on with some of my goats.
I have 2 almost 2 month olds that have developed loose stool. I wormed them on 4-8 using panacur and I gave them 3ml each per my vet's instruct
Read more…we have a bottle baby who is now 2 1/2wks old. almost dead, tongue hanging out on day 1. raised body temp-took 6 hrs. began syringe feeding mother's milk, 1 oz at a time. by 4 days old she was drinking from a pritchard teat. by 6 days old, she was wa
Read more…I was feeding my doe, Spot, some brazil nuts this morning, and she dropped two of them while trying to chew. She's being syringe-fed "grain porridge" and there seems to be a lot more grinding noise than I would expect for soft food, so I looked (wit
Read more…My doe, Spot, kidded with triplets three months ago. She had gotten thin during her pregnancy and had some digestive imbalance right after kidding, but that cleared up with probiotics. We've been slowly increasing her grain ration, and now she's up
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