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Born at night again. Richard

Meet Silver lake Ranch's Remington. Hi, Haven't been around for a while, good to be back, lot of good reading and pictures too. Richard

WE are picking up a mini jersey bull calf who is only 2mo. I am wondering what to look for with his teste development. Our goats develop very quickly and it is easy to see everything is in tact and ok. But our mini stallion took a while to develop. But I don't know about cows so I don't know...

looking to purchase a couple of cows or a cow and bull. We have alot of experience with goats and some with horses but none with cows. So when looking at a beast what should we be looking for to know if they are in good health? Are there specific things to look for in cows and bulls? these would...

Hi All, We are looking to get a cow for milk. As you might have seen in my other post, we were looking at mini jerseys. It seems they are hard to find around here and from research it seems a highland would be better suited to where we live. So I would like some advice and input from anyone who...

we are looking for a mini jersey cow and possibly a bull. Does anyone breed them in CA or NV?

We rescued a Tog a while back. She was emaciated. She was not getting enough food and what she was getting was terrible quality. Since we got her we have of course fixed all that. We took her to the vet for her tests. Did the full parasite treatments along with probiotics and copper and...

Hi all, so looking at possibly getting another tog and it appears she may be a prodigous mother. She has never kidded but has milk. Is this a good or bad thing? What is the milk like and volume with prodigous mothers?

Hi looking at getting some angora goats and am a complete newbie to angoras. So when looking to purchase a goat how do I tell the quailty of their mohair? I have also read that the older the goat the less valuable the fleece. How old does that begin to happen? Thanks

So I have been investigating cl especially with the new vaccine that is now out. We have dairy goats and there seems to be alot of talk amongst the meat goat raisers but not dairy. So does CL come through in milk? Can it get you sick through milk? Would the antibodies the vaccine cause to...

Hi All, hoping for some help here. We just rescued 2 toggenburg dairy goats that were in aweful condition. One is showing signs of a staph infection. Pimple type things all over her udder and groin. They have creamy heads, some are more scabby looking than others. Anyway my questions...

Greetings, Our girls are out in the barn. Their mini goats, sisters, just kidded, one had 4 and the other has had 2 so far, all within one hour. They, our girls,are out mucking and rebedding. This was a smooth kidding. Richard

We had torrential rains a week ago. We had a lake in the corral and the barn was flooded. We added a shed roof to move the rain away from the barn but I was repairing the tractor and the hump that prevented the water from running off was still there when it rained again. The barn was dry but the...

I know there is already a post on CL but we recently acquired this doe. She has no signs of external CL abscesses on her but I am wondering if this lump on her side isn't CL on an organ. The lump is very soft to the touch. How do you test for CL? Is it a blood test? We'd love your input on...

We got alot of rain lately and the stupid tarps had pin holes in them that I didn't realize. Now several bales of hay have patches of mold on them. I was ready to toss them but someone said the goats could eat it. That they would eat around the moldly bits and just leave it. I know they are...

We just picked up a doe and kid to add to our herd. The kid is supposed to be 10 days old. The mother is still VERY big but the people said she was usually this fat. They were feeding her straight alfalfa and sweet grain so we figured it could just be fat. Anyway got up this morning and she has...

Greetings, We just painted our horse trailer, the roof needs to be sealed to stop water leaking. I had planed to use silicon, do you know a better way. Thanks Richard

So while building the chicken coop the horses decied to help ...........

Greetings, Wanted to share! Six months back we adopted a McNab border collie from the pound. Today, Zephure, the stallion found his way out of the corral and was off to the races. Hoveev, our McNab out ran the stallion, turned him and brought him back to the corral gate.

We have one female with a watery eye, we just noticed. Her nostril on that side is also congested. Does it sound like a sinus infection? I have read that it could be food impacted and it may have to be pulled out. What is your experience? I plan to give peniciline. Richard