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Thanks everyone. Think I will try whole milk with some evap, molasses and probiotic. :) fingers crossed!

I did talk to him for quite a while and he said he's been tying ..... tieing? ..... mom three times a day so he can nurse, and it included day one so I'm comfortable that he got colostrum. Ok. I had a whole milk, buttermilk, evaporated milk concoction for goat kids that was great. I read lambs...

Thank you everyone. I'm still undecided on whether cattle will be added. To answer a couple questions: We were looking more toward a beef that can do well on pasture with little to no extra feed Plan on selling off the calves once they are weaned and we are sure they are doing well Beef...

Just an update..... Rambo is doing great. His fecal Friday showed a much lower count for worms but still there. The vet said you can never get rid of the worms totally (?) but he would like to see the number lower. He said to treat him for another couple doses (once a week) and retest on 1/18...

It's entirely possible this is pinned somewhere but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone have a recipe for lamb milk replacer? We were asked to take in a 3 day old ram lamb, one of three. The mom is feeding the other two but rejected the third. He wants to eat but she seems to have no interest...

Thanks everyone. For us it isn't a business. We have a farm sanctuary and have a lot of special needs animals. We take in sick, injured, and those that just 'aren't right'. Prior to this we did pet rescue for two decades. We are serious about quarantine and did quarantine him and tested before...

Thank you everyone! I'm calling the vet about the supportives.

Coccidia was neg, just the barber pole. He didn't get anything except the dewormer, cidexin or something? I was reading on line about supplements and was going to call about it but Im worried he's too far gone. Do you think it's still worth trying?

Thank you. I honestly didn't think we could save him at this point. He just seems too far gone. Hubby still isn't quitting and says as long as Rambo fights he will fight with him. Losses are so much harder on him than on me. I've kind of accepted that death is part of life and sometimes it's the...

I keep reading info on cattle and I'm leaning toward Scottish Highland. That said, IF we decide to get cattle, it's a HUGE decision and I don't want to choose the wrong breed for us. We only have about 7 and a half acres right now. If we decide to get into cattle we will be buying about 20...

We took in a little ram lamb a couple months back. He had scours when he was tiny and the farmer dewormed him, said he was fine after but he stayed small so he didn't want him. We brought him home to quarantine, sent fecal to vet - clean. Finally put him with others - goats and sheep - no...

Yeh my concern was the lamb ewes being sold. We took Ramses in from someone that didn't want him anymore. We never knew anything about sheep, so after we were asked to take him in I started reading up on feed, housing, etc but never read anything about this, so now I'm worried. The guy said the...

No. I don't think ivI'ever seen any goats in my area with ear tags!! I have to pay more attention when I look. I know the ones for sale around here have photos posted online and none have ear tags. Thanks for the link. My reading material this morning.

What is scrapie? I know I can Google, but todays been rough. Lol. Hes started bit a jerk to the runt goat kid so tonight he is alone in a make shift pen at the interior of our pastures, basically in the backyard. He needs friends. He's turning into a jerk. Lol

We neuter / geld / wether all boys here . :) Never thought that he could be guessing at a diagnosis. Thanks. Wonder if he would be open to me bringing my vet out before making a decision.

We took in a little ram ram lamb recently from someone that didn't want him anymore .I hoped he would be happy with the rejected goat kid trio but he really isn't. Looked around us and found someone with three 'small wormy ewes' for sale. Says they got wormy and it made them small but when he...

I'm just here to drool over your Highlands. :) We don't have enough land for cattle, but if we did I definitely would want Highlands.

Ok thanks. The writing is so tiny (or my eyes are so bad) that I didn't bother trying to read it!

The only two chicks that hatched from our new broody momma. I call them Thing One and Thing Two. lol

Just wanted to update. We treated all seven goats and it worked great. By the next morning there wasn't a sign of the buggers. Six of the goats did great. Our bratty doe was a freaking nightmare. Took both of us to chase her down, everything hubby had to hold her while I doused her and she...