RPC~ Picture of our 4-H wether

[RPC]

It was a pretty nice day today. We were in the low 80's and I really enjoyed it. The goats are back to shedding and I hope it stays warm so they dont get cold again. Nothing too new to report as far as each goat personally. They are all still happy and healthy. But I have a meeting tomorrow so I weighed the 2 bottle kids today.
Jager- 31 pounds 3 oz.
Porsche- 25 pounds 3 oz.

ADG
Jager- .38
Porsche- .49

They may not be growing as fast as dam raised but that's what I expected with just getting cows milk from the store. They are eating the pellets and hay really well and they are grazing pretty good as long as they can't see me. Porsche is not going to be a bull dog like her mom but I am really liking her. She is pretty feminine, Nice long clean neck, long tall body, but not as wide as I had hoped but she could bulk up still. I am just really excited about her. As long as we do not have a judge that hates color she should do pretty well.

 

[RPC]

Well just some boring old news as far as I am concerned. I have had a lump on my abdomen for a month or so (that's when I noticed it) it is not very big. Well I finally went to the doctor after I was having pretty bad pains from it. He said it seems to be benign and the pain is from the blood vessels moving things around so they can "feed" this lump. I am just supposed to watch it and if it gets much bigger they will remove it. I am really thinking and hoping it is nothing. No one in my family has really had anything like this but I have a skin condition that for the life of me i can not remember the name. I bet I couldn't spell it either. What it does is there are parts of my body where I don't have pigment so I just have white spots. Well I guess it can lead to cancer mainly skin cancer which this is not. So I am thinking it is isolated and all will be fine. I am not really telling you all this for anyone to worry or feel bad but this way if something does come of it it will not really be a shock to anyone. So I hope everyone has a good rest of your week and talk to you all soon. I am really excited for the herdstock I wish it were closer LOL. Oh and goat weigh-in/ Tagging or Tattooing is this weekend. I don't tattoo any of my animals usually so I just get them all tagged. If anyone ever comes to the allen county fair we are the only people with tagged goats I think. Everyone else waits in a super long line to have theirs tattooed.

 

[Roll farms]

You could borrow my tat kit if you wanted, you'd just have to order the letters you need.

Hope your 'lump' is nothing.

 

[ksalvagno]

Hope your lump is nothing too!

 

[Pearce Pastures]

I hope everything is okay (and it probably is). I had a weird lump thing in my neck about 8 years ago and they removed it and believed it was possibly some weird lymph node.

Question on the calf manna if you don't mind. I bought some because my older buck needs to gain some condition (no parasite problems just a bit thin in my opinion). How much do you give/ how often? Do you give grain too?

 

[RPC]

Ok for the calf manna question. Tonight is the last night I am giving it to him for a while. He has developed what looks like a milk goiter in young kids and I dont know if it is from the high fat content in the calf manna or something else. Once I see if it goes down with out the calf manna I will feel better knowing that was the reason for it. If not then he will need to go see the vet. I was giving him about 4 oz. at night after his grain with his 2 pen mate wethers. He is sharing feed with the 2 wethers and it is a 16% meat makers feed made by ADM. I hope that answered your question.

Now my turn, Has anyone experienced an animal getting a "milk goiter" while feeding calf manna? I think it is just from the high fat content and it does not seem to bother him. He had one as a kid then it went away after weaning. Now that I have started feeding the calf manna it is back.

 

[Roll farms]

I've never fed it to kids, so I can't help you there....sorry.

 

[ksalvagno]

Pearce - I would add 1/4 cup to his grain ration daily. If he seems to need more than add some more.

RPC - I guess you will find out if the calf manna is doing this to your little guy. I haven't had any problems with calf manna either but I don't feed a lot when I use it. You get to be the one who lets us know of your experience. Lucky you!

 

[RPC]

Well first off I am feeding him to much. I thought it said 1/4-1/2 pound per goat not 1/4-1/2 cup per goat. and he is getting way more then that so that could be the issue. We will see how things go now that he is not going to be getting it for a while. I got some pictures of the herd so you will see how big his neck is right now. It does not seem to bother him. We did not get pictures of Freckles and Sky. Sky was acting up and Freckles does not like people very much. So I hope you like the herd. I will include older pictures of Sky and Freckles from a month ago.

Freckles

Sky

Faith

Joy- I dont really know why she has the long hair on her back and back legs but that is just how she grows it LOL. I think it is so ugly.

Hope

Jasmine

Cashmere

Valentine

Caliber

Cookie Dough

Bonequiqui

Marsha- I can't seem to resize this picture sorry

Jan

Cindy

Jager

Porsche

 

[Roll farms]

on Caliber's goiter. Never seen one like that....holy toledo, Batman.

Everyone looks good. I get a kick out of the girls' faces in these pics, too.