Search results

Well. Sometimes you just don’t have time. My grandpa and my uncle have always been farmers that I look up to. My grandpa has reached an age where he has a couple mini ponies that bring him joy but he still lives on his once booming dairy farm. My uncle raises lambs for meat and a few beef...

Yes. So sad but also a tired relief that there’s no more pain for him and I can finally rest.

Oh this is such a great idea!!! Thank you for that suggestion!

Thank you. One of the vets I consulted had fourteen llamas that reduced to four due to dying so take this with a grain of salt… he give medicine to them in a slice of bread and they will eat it whether it’s a pill or de wormer. Stephen wouldn’t have done that but maybe the next one.

I will never forget that day. I had to leave for a road trip with friends and checked jn the barn one last time and he decided to wear the ladder as a necklace while trying to get away from me. I was like omg this is what my life is like now lol. Thank you. I loved that dude. And as tragic as...

Update on little buddy: he finally started to eat the creep feed and hay! I think he needed to see other sheep do it because being in the house he was never going to see it and become interested. He’s doing great, I try to let him frolic with the sheep in small (supervised) doses. They mostly...

Stephen passed away over the night and I found him Thursday morning when I went to go work on him. He’s no longer suffering in pain. I meant to post earlier but, as most of you know, working on a down animal over the course of several days is absolutely exhausting and I’ve been trying to get...

Morning update day three. He’s not looking good. I called the vet to get them out here and left a message. I wish getting vets to come over was easier but I understand that they have a regular practice as well. I guess in my area most people don’t call the vet for their animals so it’s not a...

I have electrolyte solutions as well but this is great to know for a pinch. I just hadn’t brought it down to the barn to drench him with it yet. Headed there in a bit to work my magic. The vet said to do the banamine intramuscular not subcutaneous…. Let me check out the interwebs to confirm.

He’s right outside the barn which I think is better in this situation. He usually hangs out outside 24/7 and the weather is pretty good this week. I can’t move him anyway. I’ll see if the vet can come down but I haven’t been successful so far. Lambing season for the nearby vet and the other is...

Update: he made it through the night and through today. I checked on him twice today and then tonight to give him Banamine. He’s getting Safeguard now for the next five days. He actively pushes me when I’m trying to move him upright to the Cushing position. I haven’t gotten him to that...

I feel like Joanna and I would be friends. Are they speckled Sussex or jubilee Orpington or??

Girl I feel like you and I bought from the same people. I cleared out a massive jumble of barbed wire this week. If you know you know, a mass of jumbled up barbed wire is just horrible to remove. Horrible. It’s like filling a giant garbage bag with water and trying to lift it onto a shelf above...

Stolen my heart.

I’m posting this as my journal of what I’m doing to help my llama, Stephen. I have two vets helping me with him right now. I’m gravely worried about him and it’s not looking good but I’m doing all I can and I’m a stubborn lady. Please, please post here if you’ve had a down llama with MW who...

I bought almost 8 acres of land in Kentucky about a year ago. I have a house built in 1995 that hadn’t been remodeled ever, a barn, beautiful fencing for horses, and pastures with rolling hills. I knew it was going to be work but man I didn’t know how much I’d love this place and also how much...

Thank you for this. He’s doing so much better day by day. The guard llama and two bull calves keep him company in the pen which is pretty cute I must say. He’s in a wire dog crate in the pen and cries far less like you said. I let him wander around with me while I do chores and today he munched...

I love this. I remember watching the vet come and artificially inseminate my grandpa’s dairy cows or just check on them with that long glove. It was like watching a train wreck lol. Fascination and horror lol

Yes I’m nervous to band him myself because he just doesn’t feel right down there. I’ve banded one goat before and some lambs and this guy just feels funny. Like tubes or as if they haven’t dropped fully. So I’m going to take him to the vet to do it. Safe side.

I have just under 8 acres. I’m hoping to secure an unused plot next to mine with many more acres mostly because that way I’ll secure the gorgeous sunset views from my home. My LGDs have already claimed it as their own so I’ll have to see if that stands up in a real estate claim ;)