CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[NH homesteader]

We do our own vaccinations, and I am saving up for a microscope to do fecals at home also. But as of yet I am scared to do blood draws so until I learn, we have the vet do that. Our vet is 50 minutes away, but that is by our choice. There is one 10 minutes away but I wouldn't wish him on anyone's animals.

 

[Mike CHS]

I haven't ran across any goat or sheep people that wouldn't be more than happy to help you learn. We provided some free labor for a couple of days to a sheep farm to learn how to do hooves and shots. Drawing blood we haven't had the nerve to do yet.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well it is a little more "Hands On" than I prefer or planned on doing at the Start of this Adventure, but I care about my animals and want to do the Best for them, and if it means getting that involved, I will. I just don't Want to.

 

[Mike CHS]

I haven't seen very many on BYH that actually wound up doing what they initially "planned" on doing.

 

[NH homesteader]

It's not that bad once you get used to it. I was shocked the first time we did a CDT shot. After teaching ourselves how to trim hooves via YouTube videos, and seeing how impatient some of them were for that (sold the real difficult ones), they didn't appear to notice when we gave them a shot. No flinching, nothing. Made it much easier for us.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well having worked in the ER for a yr I got used to most of that stuff. I used to give shots to dogs yrs ago, and drawing blood doesn't bother me either, it's the diagnosing that concerns me. I can usually do as I am told to do, but when it is me that is doing the "Deciding" as to "What" to do, or is Needed to do, I always am in doubt and 2nd guessing myself. So, if I am the best that can be done for them, then I will do my Best. Just hope it's nothing major that is faced.

 

[Mike CHS]

You can do it and you always have this forum with tons of experience. We went into lambing season worried to death and luckily haven't had too many issues but we had all of the supplies (and many we will never use) to be able to give the best that we could possibly provide.

We called our mentor with the first lamb that we thought wasn't able to nurse and she said if we hadn't intervened the lamb would have probably died.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Appreciate that Mike, and I may just make it a point stop by that training place up there in Hernando and talk to them about me doing a similar thing there, or over at Egypt Creek Ranch, they have a sizeable Kiko herd, and my neighbor is his cousin.

 

[Mike CHS]

Sheep and goat people like to do sheep and goat stuff.

 

[Latestarter]

You know Mike, and I'm sorry to go off in Countryboy's thread here, but you said that tilt table was going to cost $1,800.00. You have that wonderful shop and lumber and tools... Why can't you just draw plans from what you've seen and build one yourself? I'm sure you could do it and it might be n ice as you can modify it to make it work best for you.