Coffee anyone ?

[MatthewsHomestead]

The honey bun.

This thing.

Picked up some electrolytes and safflower for my Nubian Luna. If that doesn't work by the end of the week we will go ahead and bolus her. Made some fridgerator pickles. Doing zucchini bread tomorrow and zucchini squash fritters.

 

[Baymule]

Bay, YOU are a doof!

I had a one eyed rooster named Doofus once, does that count?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

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Picked up some electrolytes and safflower for my Nubian Luna. If that doesn't work by the end of the week we will go ahead and bolus her. Made some fridgerator pickles. Doing zucchini bread tomorrow and zucchini squash fritters.

Oh, little Debbie, What's wrong with your goat?

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Her weight was too low to let Jupiter breed her so when the vet came out and gave her her rabies shot we separated them she put good weight on for about a week. Then she just lost appetite. It went from her getting a bowl finished every night to her taking two or three days to eat her grain. She's always had free choice minerals, baking soda, hay, clean water, and plenty of forage. I think it was depression from being separated from Jupiter. So they are back together in our garden. We've given her a bottle last night and with the addition of electrolytes tonight. She is starting to perk up. Now to deal with my new find of lice. Yay. Any holistic ideas on that? But that's what we've been dealing with....

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Her weight was too low to let Jupiter breed her so when the vet came out and gave her her rabies shot we separated them she put good weight on for about a week. Then she just lost appetite. It went from her getting a bowl finished every night to her taking two or three days to eat her grain. She's always had free choice minerals, baking soda, hay, clean water, and plenty of forage. I think it was depression from being separated from Jupiter. So they are back together in our garden. We've given her a bottle last night and with the addition of electrolytes tonight. She is starting to perk up. Now to deal with my new find of lice. Yay. Any holistic ideas on that? But that's what we've been dealing with....

My one Nubian I had was pretty lanky for about 2 years. In general dairy goats take a long time to mature, and they don't get fat like the pygmies, and dwarf breeds. You don't really want them fat either. It's like the difference between a Holstein and an Angus, they have a different body type too.

We use ivomectin as needed for worming or external parasites, but never on a schedule as parasites can quickly developed immunity to wormers. We use it orally.

I have always been against grain in a goats diet. It always makes me nervous to feed any rations and grains due to things like over eaters, and acidosis. Goats in general like more browse so we provide ours with tree and shrub trimmings as often as we can.

I don't do holistic. I prefer to treat stuff as necessary, but in general my goats have been pretty healthy in the last few years, so not much is needed.

Hope yours gets better. She's probably too young to breed this year anyways?

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Vet says it's not about her age but reaching an appropriate weight/build. I don't worm unless they need it. I'm with you on the over medicating. Lanky is good, but she isnt healthy. I think a lot of it too has been dehydration. I noticed she only drinks from her bucket and nothing else and she had a different waterer when they were separated. She gets anxiety when he isn't around too. I think we have her back on track. Didn't actually mean grain. Just their small scoop of daily goat pellets. I get the kind that has a molasses coating. The safflower is just for her because of significant weight loss. I wonder if a bit of garlic in her bowl along with a mint extract spray(made from my mint plants) would nip the louse in the bud before she gets infested. Or a dawn bath.....

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Off to start a thread..... I'll have coffee and homemade bagels out bright and early for everyone!

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Coffee and bagels are up! Got the strawberry and blackberry preserves and butter out!

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Sooooo..... Apparently my weirdo dog uses the litter box.

 

[Alaskan]

Sooooo..... Apparently my weirdo dog uses the litter box.