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Maybe you all can point me in the right direction. I have a month and a half old lamb whose appetite has really dwindled this last week. He is on pasture that we rotate every other day and he's been getting about 64 oz of milk from a bottle each day. I wouldn't normally be worried because I...

Hello My first time freshener kidder two days ago and this morning her buckling's backside is all covered in diarrhea. Since he's so young, I'm assuming it's not coccidiosis. He seems normal as far as activity and vitality. It has been raining heavily the last several days and it's been a...

My ewe had twins today. Unfortunately she isn't giving any milk at all. Her udder is hard but not like engorement....it has a bunch of lumpy bumps in it. I tried for several minutes to express any milk from her and failed. We lost twins from her last year due to starvation and I was too much of...

It's been a learning curve trying to figure out how to manage parasites in my herd. We unfortunately lost a buckling last year due to anemia from parasites and I didn't catch the symptoms until it was too late. We bought a new buck in oct, a 1 yr old boer (and was dewormed the day we bought...

My ewe gave birth to twins Sunday morning. Both lambs have appeared fine up to this point. This morning one us laying down and has very little response to stimulus and will not stand and the other one looks weak but is still able to stand and bleat. Their mother is attentive to them but I...

Hello, I searched the internet for a while and even here on this forum but couldn't find an answer to my specific situation. I've been raising a few lambs together but I need to get the female out of there as the two ram lambs are approaching 3 months old and I don't want her bred yet. (She's...