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Another fellow Floridian! Since you are new to goats I'd recommend doing a fecal to see what your worm load is since you've treated as you won't be as experienced seeing the early signs and knowing your goats. I still do fecals here and there, although most of the time my predictions are right...

I think it's wise to have a stall available when needed, but all does may not need it. Some dams are overprotective and the rest of the herd certainly appreciates it when I leave them with their babies in a stall for a few days. LOL. Others may have an early baby, or tiny triplets I don't want...

Weve had a tough year two with three unexplained very sudden deaths (2 yr old, 3 month old, 6 weeks old). All super healthy and 4-8 hours later die in our arms. This following three miscarriages/abortions in early January. We sent the last one in for a necropsy, but I'm not optimistic that they...

Of coarse I'd take every precaution and isolate and test. OTOH, that also looks like it could be the site of a vaccine abscess/cyst. I also write down where I give vaccines as we've had one or two small cysts ones pop up after a vaccine and once after a cut near the tail. You might ask the...

There's no rule against it with ADGA and we've done it with several goats who have done very well. Some does just won't stay in milk well that long (we have a Nigerian like that) and others thrive on milking over a year. We milked a Lamancha FF that had tremendous production through for 18...

This is what we do EXCEPT I milk them once a day before the 2-3 weeks. I don't worry about milking them out, or if I only get a few drops if they have 2+ babies. However, if you wait 2-3 weeks after kidding to milk you are likely to have quite the wrestling match with most does. They don't let...

Any chance you can find someone with some goat milk locally? If you could at least do that for a week even if you had to transition to cows milk it could really help her. If you don't know if they test for diseases.you can heat to 165' to pasteurize. Where are you located?

Symptoms didn't fit at all, but I"ve learned never say never. LOL. She's obviously on the mend so we did something right.

It's going to vary breeder to breeder. I'd certainly watch her close and take her temp twice a day for 3-4 days if you aren't giving abx. If you decide to you can use Biomyacin/LA200 for 4 days. I've only done prescription abx from the vet when that didn't cut it. I had to go in a totally...

Well, we still don't know the cause, but she's up. A little wobbly and weak in the legs still, but she can get up on her own and run across the yard. She's been eating great and healthy otherwise all this time so we expect a full recovery. I'm not sure she will recover her position as the boss...

So my original thread was this: https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/sheep-help-not-eating-and-weak.39261/ We took the 8 week old lamb to the vet (Monday) and he thought she had eaten something she shouldn’t based on X-ray. Was treated with abx, IV fluids, light dose of banamine, Bose, and...

We’ve had three with a broken leg over the years and all three are grown and healed! Your splint sounds good. We changed ours every few days to make sure it wasn’t rubbing or getting moist and irritating the skin. The vet warned us that a skin infection could be worse than the break! It needs...

Aprox 8 week old ewe lamb, Hampshire. thriving until yesterday. (Like super healthy and growing better than everyone!) Seemed slightly off but it was 89’ here so we thought she just might have gotten hot out in pasture. Twin brother was fine and they were together. 103 temp. Gave fluids orally...

So sorry. While we've been blessed it's been a rough year here kidding too.

Ginger and her doeling Secrets boys Davinas boy Daughter won 1st Showmanship (out of 75 Seniors) at the State Fair and her leased doe took BIS in open and youth under judge Karen Akers Smith. Caleb got 4th in Jr showmanship out of around 25. Secrets udder at 1 week fresh. Whisper and...

Oh, man how did I ever get so behind again. So- Whisper didn't kid, or even look super close in January, so I check my notes and she came back in three weeks later. So, she was actually due Feb 12. LOL. Unfortunately, Queenie, a ND who was also due the end of Feb aborted. We found her with dead...

I have a FF doe who kidded shortly after her grand dam's babies were sold (both boys, so 8-10 weeks). She helped clean the baby off (we walked in a baby was born) then I separated mom and baby. Grand dam was being milked. Once they were back together a few days later we noticed they were both...

So more good news Yay! Orchid Kidded on Monday the 14th with triplets on day 145. I'm glad she listened and didn't have quads again. 2d 1 b, and they weighed more than her quads did last year. One doeling was 3# and tan, and the other two are black with white more like their mom and 4.5-4.7lb...

For good news we have Wattles twin girls Trixie and her little doeling. She’s going to be a spoiled Diva. Orchid and Glory gestating for two more weeks in the baby pen.

It's actually been a rough two weeks here. On Christmas day lost one of out 9 week old doeslings (one we were going to sell, but I was keeping to not have to milk at night) to bloat. We had all the right things but nothing worked fast enough. Don't even know what could have brought it on. Then...