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Ok background. We got a Jersey calf about 2 years ago. She had a very bad giardia issue but we had a wonderful country vet that got her well and running in no time flat. Time moves on. She is a very very healthy heifer. BIG slightly fat girl. We do 3 attempts at AI and nothing takes. We get her...

All I can say is how it work with me. I have used it on animals but they were not in such bad shape. Mine was precautionary after a known exposure. Ok so I take activated charcoal when I have gotten ill on store bought meats or fast food ( rare for this reason). I give myself 2 hours and then...

lol I just assume everyone knows where I am lol. I'm sorry, I am in Kentucky. I would prefer to pick up. My husband said he is willing to drive several hours if it means not having me fretting over goat illness.

Ok, warning, I am all kinds of paranoid right now. I ended up running into a potentially infectious herd yesterday. I still want a nubian though. I don't know any nubian breeders though. I have connections for almost every other breed. I might have to wait till spring and I am ok with that but...

baking soda for bloat. Sorry my mind is slow today. I would try this first. With it coming so quickly I would think it has to be she got into something toxic for her.

Yikes does not sound good. Any chance she got into something toxic like azalea or wild cherry? Is she bloated up? I would give some activated charcoal. I cannot remember what to give for gas for my life. If I think of it I will post again. You can get activated charcoal in capsules at walgreens...

Hens and Roos my only advice after making every mistake in the book is to ask all the questions you think are stupid before you do anything. Some might even make comments about stupid questions. I always regret being too polite or too self concious to ask the questions that need to be asked...

I am reconsidering even taking my girls to be bred. Maybe I should buy the billy from my friend. I know his are tested and healthy. Heck I was offered a family discount lol. Maybe its just better to have my own here. No outsiders and the girls never leave the hill. I know I sound like I am...

WELL.......the goats were skinny but the vet she called said it was lack of minerals. To switch mineral types. She has a young one with scours but its like 7 months old. Nothing is helping the scours and all the goats are on the very very skinny side. ( sometimes I even expect it. I am in a...

I have some fairly serious questions. The lady whom we were going to get goats from started doing research after I said I felt the goats were too ill to bring into my herd. She is pretty certain its Johns disease and is having a different vet test them for this asap. Very sorry for her but to...

It doing ok. It was not as bad a bite as it could have been considering the breed but 35 days later there is still bruising and a fair amount of swelling. Thankful for loose pants and a dog that had lost most of its teeth. Holly had it a bit more swollen but I kept it iced and I don't think she...

She had been dehorned but they grew in anyway. Apparently it didn't take. The person who did it was new at it though. I should have just had something done as soon as I saw them growing but she was so sweet I thought it would be fine. WRONG

Already did it. When I realized what I had walked into I made the kids strip when we got home. Thankfully flip flops are easy to bleach or toss

Oh crud is CL.......This may take an entire pot of tea and maybe a dash of rum in it. bah humbug :-( Upside I didn't buy any goats. I still feel down because that poor little girl. I now understand why people have passed. It a risk they don't want to take.

I am disappointed and I really know the answer to what I am going to ask but I am going to ask anyway. We went to see the nubians who looked great in pics and......skinny, some are sick, one is in quarantine with a lump on its neck. Something they had in the herd that she thinks is now almost...

She is not an only goat she has 2 buddies. She never did this until we had 2 other goats that we ended up getting rid of because of this bad habit. She picked up on it though. My son gets it too, she doesn't do it to my husband. I will have to be the mean mom I guess because its dang painful and...

Ok We have 2 horses, a cow, and 3 little goats and we went through close to 100 square bales of hay last winter and 5 round bales. Thats a Kentucky winter last year which was HORRID and LONG. The cow had 2 of those round bales and broke into the hay barn... I would think 100 square bales. We...

I don't think I could cattle prod her, my husband might but I couldn't. I will try the spray bottle. She had me in tears and I still could not have zapped her. I have a pit bull bite on the back of my leg and she rammed it a good three times before my husband could plow through all the geese to...

Ok seriously this has become painful. I managed before but I have a leg that is healing up from a dog bite and the goat keeps butting me. I could not get out of the pen because of it. So my husband says its time to break this bad habit even if it hurts her feelings. How do I stop this. She is a...

The goats love the ducks and geese. It sounds awful but the goats have the best fun doing what we call goose bowling. They wait till they are all clustered up and then they run through the middle of them. They kick up their heels and make a nuisance of themselves. Its rather a funny sight.