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Possible she was due much later than you thought and she simply aborted. Hard to tell being you just purchased her. I am assuming the other doe kidded with a live or live kids. Many causes to an abortion. Also, could be the baby was just not developing correctly and it was full term, but...

You can get your 5 week old kids on creep feed to get them going better for an earlier weaning and to give mom a break. I don't find Ivermectin to be all that great of a wormer and not all that well rounded of a wormer. A white wormer like synanthic or valbazen may cover more problems. I am...

are you vaccinating for enterotoxemia? CD&T vaccine?

well, never had our stock yard mention a specific ear to tag in. so not sure about that. I would ask the stockyard or sale you sell at. WE do orange tags in a males left ear and white tags in a females right ear. That way at a very fast glance we can tell what they are and when buyers are...

I vote pelleted, I hate how they pick through the textured.

Put a little baking soda in the milk, to help with digestion and to prevent bloats. 1/8th to 1/4 teaspoon.

We use farm tags, because the scrappie tags are hard to read form a distance and when we are looking at them all in a group we like to tell quickly who is who. Our farm tags are hand written and coded according to bloodlines. We put scrappie tags on all animals that leave the farm or they are...

I would worm her with a white wormer such as Valbazen or synanthic. and treat for coccidiosis and check her ketones, or drench her for 5 days with magic drench to see if that kicks her system back into gear. Of course no amount of magic drench is going to reverse a heavy worm load that is not...

no, we don't worry about Corid and Thiamin. I have not had a single case of polio on the farm in 15 years of using it. But I do follow the directions and only give it for 5 or 6 days, you can drench her with it as well, according to the directions.

I should say for the most part it is the kids we are treating and young adults, and since we put the medication in the water, they all get treated.

If I feel the adults, especially 2 and 3 year olds are looking flimsy I will treat them extra, but for the most part we run the corid(Amprolium) in the water on a fairly regular basis in spring and summer. But I have seen adults for sure get thin or scour and respond to being treated with...

I heard more than one farm this year had problems with coccidiosis in their adults. We are all too familiar with it and we do treat, mostly in spring and summer on a regular basis for it. It is manageable, but annoying to say the least.

Amprolium is Corid.

Sorry, I have not been on in a while. I hope he recovered. 1. Bring him in where it is warm and warm him on a heating pad or with warm towels from the dryer. 2. after warming and body temp is up to 100, access the situation closer, Anemia probably means worm load, dehydration ect... Give...

Some photos from this years kidding. Our numbers were doing pretty well, we had one still born, and out of 17 does we had two that we had to assist. One kid had head out and no front legs, That was a tough delivery. The other doe had a backwards baby and the delivery was not that hard, but...

We were keeping Tori this year and we lost her over the summer when we moved the does to a new pasture, I am thinking stress, worm load or bloat. Just found her out there dead the next day. Indie is great, One heck of a nice doe and Aunt B was sold as a bred doe, but the people I sold her to...

Thank you, We had a busy week, with 12 does kidding, a total of 23 kids. Then later in the evening we had a two more does kid, each with singles bringing our total to 14 does and 25 kids. I took some pics, but have not had time to process them. 8 more does due for the season, 3 of them any...

Here was last years kidding thread, which will then take you to 2012's kidding thread. If you have a lot of free time on your hands. http://www.backyardherds.com/threads/2013-kids-on-hill-kidding-aunt-b-is-in-the-kidding-pen-april-7th.21809/

Our first two does kidded for the season, We are off to a good start with 23 more does to go and only loosing one pregnancy so far out of the group to an abortion at 3 months into gestation. Here are the first two sets of twins. first picture is a doe and a buck born in the middle of the...