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Kinda late, but we raise Muscovy (free range, just some supplemental grains over the winter) for meat. The first few we processed were a nightmare! It took us about an hour per duck to pluck them. We built a chicken plucker (ala Whiz bang style). It works great for the chickens, not so great for...

Wow ~ I feed way more than the tablespoon per bun. I mix it in with their regular pellets at a 3:1 ratio. 3 parts pellets and 1 part CM. I generally start feeding the does the mixed feed three days before their kindle date, and continue it until I wean the kits at 7 weeks. Since the kits are...

This is the second time this has happend. Two different does, different cages, but I'm wondering now how common this is. I had a litter of 6 (older doe but she's a great mama) NZ kits, 6 weeks old tomorrow, and found the biggest one dead. No bleeding, no wounds, but her neck was snapped clean...

Help please! We're butchering our pig today and one section of the large intestine had small clusters of air sacs ... what is it?!? Not sure if I can post pics yet, but I took some. They are pea sized, filled with just air, and popped like a balloon when squeezed. The pig is an 18 month old...

She is doing much better now. I've pretty much decided not to breed her again and just keep her as a pet. Her buckling weighs 6 1/2 pounds, and that is just too big imo. I didn't know about the Prep H, but from now on I'll make sure to have it on hand for kiddings. This little girl is the only...

Well now, that explains the pic problem. I've been up since 1 pm yesterday and I'm running short on both sleep and caffeine at this point. Thank you. My vet called back and said to go ahead with the antibiotic and to call if she seems 'off' tomorrow or Monday. At this point, things seem to have...

All of the does got their after birthing bowl of molasses and water. I gave this little buckling about a half ounce of water, molasses, coffee, and some colostrum I snitched from the other doe that kidded this morning because he was obviously hunting for the milk bar but mom was still getting...

I bought an entire herd of pasture bred does (5), the wether, and the billy last year. They were all pregnant when I bought them, but the previous owners had no idea 'how' pregnant. They are all pygmy/dwarf crosses except for the wether. All have now kidded, the last one within the past two...