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Our sheep and goats are anything but spoiled. We've been on our property for a little over a year and this is the first time they've seen any sort of supplements other than free choice minerals. I guess at the moment I'd like to have the ewes lamb around October and have last year's lambs be...

Or lambs for that matter

Out of curiosity if a pregnant ewe were on drylot with no access to pasture anybody have an idea of how much alfalfa or peanut or whatever it would take to meet her daily protein needs?

I'm rotating about 10 pregnant/lactating ewes 1 very pregnant Jersey and a handful of Boer goats together. The pasture they're on at the moment was pretty sparse to begin with but recent frost really did it in. My question is I can get 4 square bales for the same price as a round bale of...

We started using Garlic Barrier on my wife's dairy goats just a couple weeks ago. We just mixed it with water in a oral syringe thinking we were going to have to force it down them as potent as it smelled but they drank it right down. How long was before you noticed a change in eyelid color and...

That's probably a little more in depth than you need but it probably cost less than $100 to put together and made feeding g and milking time a breeze

If you only have 2 one simple inexpensive solution we used is to put in a post or 2x4 in the middle of the hay feeder screw a pallet to it then put in another post on the other end. Basically just divide the feeder

Another thing I don't understand is from the statistics I've seen %80 of parasites live on the bottom 2 inches of a grass blade right. If that's the case why are they so dangerous to goats that don't even prefer grass. You'd think they'd be fairly safe eating mainly high stuff

Yeah this summer was ridiculous we went from people's stock ponds drying up and widespread brush fires in may and June to flooding and people having to move livestock to higher ground.

If you don't have a drylot available and they're left on a contaminated pasture for a couple days after worming wouldn't they just injest more parasites? In any case I had to move them when I wormed them because it was the only day I had help. Unfortunately I also didn't have time to get a stool...

Testosterone poisoning that's funny. Never heard it called that but it makes sense

At one point or another every one of the animals we have on our farm has got into it with another animal of its species except maybe the sheep. The dogs the goats the chickens all of them even my wife's lovebirds occasionally fight. Rabbits are very social animals like I said ours got out at the...

This weekend I was able to worm all the sheep but one and get them on a fresh pasture. Hopefully now I'll be able to rotate them every 5-6 day onto pasture that hasn't had anything (domestic) on it for years. My question is would y'all recommend redosing them or do you think rotating them...

Chickens have a pecking order too but nobody locks them in individual cages for their own protection they work it out and go about their business . I'm no expert but we raised meat rabbits fairly successfully for several years with very little drama. Your set up sounds great to me you obviously...

We raised 4 females (California/NZ) in a 10x12 hoop hut with a wire floor for a long time until one of the kids left the door open and we now have free range rabbits. Only once did we have a female who was aggressive and fought with the others (she was removed) more often than not you'd see them...

I just left some dumor sheep mineral our for the first time the other night. I poured the recommended amount for the number of sheep we have and they attacked that stuff. Should I be worried about some eating more than others and getting SE poisoning?

I've never seen any problems between cows and goats. Is there a specific plant/s you're worried about the cow eating?

What's a "golden herd member"

If your pasture isn't to big your best bet my be just start pulling. Or pay your kids to do it that's what we do