!Advice Please! My two little does have arrived in Oregon from New Mexico at my husbands aunts house. We are going to pick them up on Sunday. My aunt had a local expert on Nigerians look them over; she said one was great while the other looked malno
Read more…I went to let the goats out this morning and one of my does who is 6 months old had a bloody discharge. She has never been exposed to a buck so I know she is not aborting. Any help would be nice. It wasn't a lot, but enough for me to notice. She
Read more…Before we were able to go get our new goats, the whole herd got a cough. We post-pond the pick up by a few weeks and he seemed better with just a little cough here and there. Well we have had a very wet last few weeks and this morning I noticed his
Read more…I bred one of my does almost two weeks ago. When she was in heat she had a clear discharge. After I bred her for a few days she had a white mucus color discharge that seemed to be kinda spiratic, but never had completely cleared up. Only noticed i
Read more…I don't know if any of you were aware of this resource, but thought it might be helpful. It's online and easy to search.
http://merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp
Read more…I really want to buy this book but every time I go to the site it wants to sell me both of Cheryl's books. I already own the other one. Am I missing something? Would rather order it from her site and not Amazon....
Read more…We have had 4 straight days of rain and I put some straw down last Friday and new straw down this morning with some sweet pdz on top of their old bedding. I know I need to clean out their barn but it is pretty dry in there and doesn't smell too badl
Read more…I'm a bit confused on this point. Are there breeders/herds 'certified cae free'? Or is that just the term applied if they have been tested and get negative results. I hear both terms used, and wondering if some people just test and others have herds
Read more…Hello everyone, I have a little guy who is 7 weeks and has diarrhea. When he is out during the day it doesn't seem to be as bad, but when he is locked up at night he is just covered in the morning. I have to give him a bath almost every morning for
Read more…Just found this on alternative dewormers:
http://www.scsrpc.org/SCSRPC/Publications/part5.htm
The thing I found most interesting is the study about wormwood reducing fecal egg count by 50% when they fed a POUND of it to goats every day for four days.
Read more…I have goats that are coughing The two girls started a few weeks ago. They are still all running around and eating. They have a runny nose and it was very hot today and I could hear them breathing and it sounded a little congested. Any suggestion
Read more…So I checked eyelids this AM...have not even had the goats a week yet...and of the three I could get hold of, two were white pale and one was faintly pink. The buck that I couldn't catch at the time has clumpy poo, so I'm sure he's wormy too. Valley
Read more…I have tried to find how many times to worm my goats in the forums but can't. I thought I read that you worm them 3 days in a row but don't know where I saw that. I also had a question on the dosage. My vet said to give them 1cc but that seemed like
Read more…I'm new to the group and have learned so much already reading through forum discussions! I have had three ND goats since April--a doe and her two yearlings. That number has increased to 5, as the doe freshened July 2, adding another doeling and buckl
Read more…I've often mentioned using copper oxide wire particles for copper deficiency, although they can also be used as a natural way to control stomach worms in goats and sheep. This article summarizes most of the research done in this area:
Read more…I have a doe that is 35 days fresh. I started milking her 5 days ago. Today she had a small hard lump in one of her teats and I could not get milk out. I noticed I could move it up into her udder. Could this be mastitis or something else? She is a s
Read more…I'm doing final edits on my book, which means checking references, so I'm coming across all the stuff I've read. Here is the abstract of the research article on top dressing vs bolusing copper oxide wire particles:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Read more…As some may know from reading my post I have been feeding Sweetlix meat maker minerals, baking soda and separate salt all the time, and 2-3 days a week my herd gets Onyx cattle minerals. For a while now I have noticed that I have had to waste more of
Read more…Thanks to an idea put forth on this list by Rachel Whetzel (thanks Rachel!) I soaked some raisins overnight, then put them in the chopper, added the individual doses of COWP and voila...5 out of 7 goats ate it up. I had tried molasses before with ver
Read more…I just bought a couple garden hoses and realized that they contain LEAD! In fact, ALL my hoses did... and because leafy vegis especially will retain this lead, and realized I needed to replace the hoses that will be watering our food... and then it o
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