Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[misfitmorgan]

You are a amazing young woman, my heart goes out to you

Thank you

While reading thru mike's thread I saw SBC mention people having problems with coccidia and with Oreo having scours I think we will go ahead and treat for coccidia as we have not done it since last spring. Since Oreo has a good famcha and atm reasonable/good weight but scours I am leaning towards it either being something she ate/got into or coccidia. We will be worming in the next week or two since thats what our vet recommended last spring because of how wet it was out and this year it is the same if not worse and forecasts are for a wetter then usual spring with some flooding.

 

[Bruce]

Her famcha and weight seem fine but she appears weak and has scours.

I'm pretty sure I read in Mike's journal that he hasn't found the famacha score to be a particularly good indicator and doing fecals is best.

Good luck!

 

[Mike CHS]

Anymore, I assume coccidia if it comes all of a sudden. I have a problem because I cut grass in a bagger and they go from hay to some really lush winter growth but I only give them enough to keep them happy. In most cases they adjust to it really well but coccidia meds don't do any harm.

 

[Hens and Roos]

 

[misfitmorgan]

Yeah I'm really thinking cocci because she was acting perfectly fine 4 days ago and then suddenly i noticed scours and thought well thats odd but it was more a passing thought, then the next day she didnt want to get up and move much. I honestly was thinking maybe she had pneumonia or just wasnt feeling well. We also did give them a small bit of second cut hay so I thought maybe that gave her scours. Last night she had no improvement but didnt seem worse, hopefully we are in time with the cocci treatment.

Also when DH went out to do chores last night he found Ivy in the pen with Oreo(Ivy jumped the gate) and Ivy was in there beating up on Oreo. He kicked Ivy out of the pen and put another board up over the gate which will hopefully keep Ivy out.

 

[Bruce]

Why is Ivy being mean to Oreo??

 

[misfitmorgan]

Why is Ivy being mean to Oreo??

Cause Ivy is a bully and she saw little Oreo in a pen alone with a bunch of feed which she decided she wanted. I am thinking we may need to band Ivy's horns and see if we can get them off. The ends are getting very thin and she is using them against all the other livestock. I don't just mean butting them, she is trying to get them in their guts with an upward jerk of her head. Even the other goats are now letting her boss them around, Phoebe was the alpha. DH proposed cutting off the end of her horns so they are blunt and see if that helps.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

We had a meat x goat that we had to cull because she was getting dangerous for the other goats with her horns, killed two goat kids that weren’t hers, and tried to use her horns on DH. She’d beem here for 3 years and all of that happened in 3 mos. She got a one way ticket off the farm!

 

[misfitmorgan]

We are going to have to do something. Ivy is my favorite goat and has produced very healthy strong kids both times she was bred, has good parasite resistance, keep condition well for a dairy goat, and is super people friendly. She is a pain in the butt cause she jumps fences and gates and now she is using her horns on the others. DH hates her. Ivy was/is our yard goat and it is pretty hilarious seeing people get scared when she comes running towards them like some kind of alien dog.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Sadly I have to report that we lost Oreo. It was either thursday night or friday while we were at work. We are sure not sure what it was, if it was cocci we didn't get the treatment going fast enough for her I guess. Everyone else is being treated for coccidiosis so hopefully that takes care of everyone else. We planned on getting everyone wormed over the weekend but that didnt happen. We had a cold snap the high was 31F and we got 2 inches of snow.

We have plans to make a pen in the garage corner for the bottle lambs until the smaller one is taking solid food better then they will move to a pen in the barn. I bought some more layers about 2 weeks ago. 5 hens three isa browns 2 black sex links from a guy at work who didnt have time for them anymore. Our TSC has had chicks on sale for $1 each and ducklings for $2 for 2 weeks. So we went on Saturday to get some and wouldn't ya know they were all gone and they had new pekin ducklings at $5.99 each. So hopefully they get more in and put them on clearance I want khaki Campbells.

Atm we have 3 white leghorns, 1 buff orphington, 3 isa browns, 2 black sexlinks, 1 silver laced wyndotte, and 2 mutt chickens. We also have a pair of toulouse geese and 1 pekin, 1 rouen, 1 muscovy and 3 mule ducks.

I have really high hopes this spring of getting a poultry house of some sort build so the poultry can have their own place.