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Thank you for replying. I was afraid of this, I will get to work! Find her a muzzle, cut out her grain (I may just stop giving her the thyroxine, as it doesn't seem to be doing anything and the diet appears to be more key) and start walking the donkey? :) I've been saying this whole time she...

Yeah, I can obviously continue to monitor their weight gain/loss but an animal can still have deficiencies and look alright. I have never carried an animal through winter on hay alone and have read a lot of peoples accounts of doing such. I am hoping for the input of those who do on orchard...

I "inherited" a miniature donkey who has front hoof problems that our farrier is slowly correcting, and she is over weight and lumpy. She is 18 years old. The vet thought it might be a thyroid issue and gave her some medication but after 4 months of feeding her them medication AND reducing her...

I am feeding our sheep/goat/donkey herd organically. Still in the process of feeling out the correct amount of feed. They have been getting supplimental grain through summer because their pasture is pretty bad (hopefully rotationally grazing next year will begin to bring it back), but now that...

I am new to the forum and new to pigs. We want to breed our tamworth/Yorkshire gilt and I am looking into options for safe farrowing. I understand the biggest loss of young pigs occurs within the first few days of birth, this is when the mother is most likely to crush them? So we have a wood...