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If it walks like bull****, talks like bull****, and smells like bull****, well, you fill in the blank. You can adopt a lot of homeless, local dogs for $800.

Wow...you have been through it. We not only treasure our "off the grid" status, my husband is rabid (not too strong a word) about self sufficiency. We do have city water, but our 170 year old house has a 30' stone lined hand dug well that always even in the dryest year has a minimum of 8-10'...

He's a gorgeous boy. I say go for it!

Can you tube feed her?

Trust your instincts, desjardin. It sounds to me like you're doing everything right. No doubt she got at least *some* colostrum, either from mama #1 or mama #2, and despite her size, she's showing pluck and the will to live. Honor it, and keep her in the house for awhile (the dog will get...

Poor thing. She was never meant to be. Wish her spirit well, spend a little extra TLC on that ewe, and look to the future for happier endings.

The first time is always a little nerve wracking; just remember that most of the time, nature does a good job of taking care of itself. Usually all I provide is the cheering section, and the bucket of water with molasses at the end for a job well done.

I have a heat lamp over my kidding pen to make it as comfortable as possible; block out every possible draft, and watch that laboring doe like a hawk so you can be there when the kids are born (I have a goat cam that connects to my computer so I can see what's happening at all tmes :ep. Big...

I'm a sheep ignoramus, being a goat gal myself; but I'm an APRN with 30 years of medical experience, and I live with a geneticist. Unless there's some well identifiable syndrome that produces lambs like you describe, I'd be inclined to give her another chance (and with another ram, as someone...

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Although I dont love driving in the stuff, thru many years of practice I'm good at it. What I hate is trying to get my biggest goat, Melba, to walk across the ice into the milk room. All the king"s horses and all the king's men can't make this 180 lb girl go where she doesn't want to. (visual...

I'm with ya all. March in Connecticut, and it's still often in single digits. The chicks I ordered (and the ones I'm incubating) may be raised in the bathroom... I'm sick of winter, I'm sick of complaining about winter, and I'm sick of all my coworkers complaining about winter. I told a...

Better late than never ;)

It's amazing how that can take 'em down a notch - removing the ammunition really changes the way you view the gun.....

Stay tuned, then. All will be revealed :old

@Baymule - hmmm....old houses and barns.....new thread...I like it. Will have to dig out some of them and do that. In the meantime, this:

Oh, your poor daughter....:eek: They oughta know to LISTEN to mom. I learned my first year out of school to *listen* when a patient says something's wrong. It might be anxiety, but it might not. And if they say "I don't want this surgery - if I have it, I'm going to die," call the OR and CANCEL.

Sorry so graphic and awful; but I figure anyone still reading is in it for the long haul. The bone actually migrates from the periphery of the wound across to the center, and skin actually granulates/ grows in from the edges to the center too. It was pretty miraculous, watching that "defect" -...

OK, yeah, William's "defects" (I love how medicine depersonalizes things, don't you?) were a lot bigger than Millie's. How big, you ask? This was a week after his surgery: