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My mistake - is not mites, no scabies look - must be lice, and did dose ivermectin. He’s digging around “thin skin” between toes, scrotum, insides of legs.

Dunno if this is right section or maybe “diseases” - 1st day home noticed him scratching. Dosed him for mites. He was good for two days and is now digging at himself like he’s gonna pull the hide off. Scratches all over. Someone know what’s the remedy for this?

Was looking for several years for this breed. Used to have them. But seems around me everyone’s into the fad of Nigerians, and I didn’t want a milker that short. Found ONE lady 4 counties over with kids, and got a doeling last Spring. (Central Virginia) Next problem is finding an unrelated buck...

Have a rat-colony, but I also have a ball python that needs to eat - and living rural, it saves on gas running to a city-store to buy expensive frozen rats. So it’s easier for me to farm her food here along with everything else. They fit in the Cycle here - you know that Cycle: food in, meat...

Once in awhile, I get the choking with a lamb that’s greedy. They snort, foam, cough, hang head, and keep moving to try and ease discomfort. I’ve actually started sitting with a fast-eater and tossed a handful at a time in their bucket to slow them down. I use Dumor’s, sheep & lamb, too - and...

Goldfish excrete a lot of urea.

I have Katahdins, too. My hands hurt too much to shear, so I got Hairies.

Yeah… brings me back to the tears I shed for my Gruoth who left from breast-cancer, and my soul-mate Hawk who didn’t recover from her last la-par attack. They take a big chunk outta your chest when they cross the Bridge. When my health crashed, Hawk was brought by my daughter for me to educate...

Baymule, please let me know about the brown & silver. I’ve seen giant silver ones the larger farms use to cover rows of round-bales in a storage yard - but those are way too big. I’ve thought of shade-cloth - there’s a “greenhousemegastore” online that I can get 70% Aluminet ordered exactly for...

I thought if that, Baymule - but the thought of lugging all that weight over my head when I’m old and working alone, bums me out. The plastic tarps weren’t too heavy for me working solo, but it seems they make these newer models “biodegradable” and they’re useless crap in a couple months’ time...

For ages, I’d bought plastic tarps that lasted several years at a time. The last 4-5 years, it seems every plastic tarp I buy decomposes in the sunlight within a couple months, and blows plastic shreds all over my vegetable garden! A real PiA to try to get up, and gets into everything! Does...

Congrats! 🎈 Never gets old! Like the first eggs and the first tomato each year - it’s a celebration! Ebony and Ivory! Cool pair!

Hasn’t worked that way here. My two boys have figured they can’t get any jollies when they’re wearing the apron, so they quit pestering. Maybe sheep are dumber than goats and give up. I laugh at the light-bulb that goes on in the ram’s eyes when I pull it off and he’s free to go! 🤣

You can go here: https://www.houseofbacchusgoatsupplies.com/ They gave a Johnson Shield that your buck can wear and is used as birth-control. My rams wear them, and my sheep-flock is kept as a natural family-group. I just time when I want lambs, and remove the guy’s apron for a few days -...

I’ll look around to see if I can find a spare board around here. I may hafta get one. But that sounds good!

That sounded good, and I’d thought of that, but my fence there is bouncy-wire. If it was board, and solid, that would work. I though of tethering to a tree, but I don’t have another growing close enough to do the hind-end tied to.

Late Winter now, soon the weather will warm up and the thaw will dry. I’m already planning on the small hoof-trimming rodeo. With tethers and front-leg ties, I can get all of them on the ground to do their manicures. EXCEPT my big ram Twink 🤦🏽‍♀️ - he’s over 200-lbs. and even though he’s pretty...

I use halters on my Katahdins so my hands have a “handle” when I move them. I ordered “large” goat fig-8 halters like before, but it seems the mail-order stores have decided to size for Nigerians instead of large goat-breeds. My ram is BIG boy! He’s bigger than me, and old gimpy self REALLY...

If you administer the ivermec paste orally, it’ll run the bloodstream and work on the ears anyway. With my sheep, I tether them up tight, shove them against the fence with my thigh, stick a thumb over their “bar” like with a horse to keep my fingers away from incisors and molars - and squirt the...

I wear hard-toe shoes out there - just cause a ram who doesn’t wanna follow, likes to step on my feet when I pull him along. 😂 Comes in handy when I drop something heavy while working out there, too.