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I've procrastinating posting this.. I have a small herd of four sheep and one alpaca free to a good home, there are three wethers, one ewe and one intact male suri alpaca(all are strictly pets/fiber).. although I am not against breeding the ewe. The sheep are friendly once they get to know you...

Someone tell me how it is June already...Man this year has been weird as hell. Anyways its that time again and boy is it going to be a busy summer. All girls are bred and I have crazy piglet fever. Lets start with Maeja who tricked me with a fake pregnancy I think? She had no udder but was...

I’ve worked with sheep for awhile and Ive never really seen something like this. This is one of our new bottle lambs and I noticed he was favoring his one foot when we brought him home. The next morning I could immediatly see his foot was swollen and that there is some kind of ball between his...

Anyone who has followed my journal knows how much I have always been wanting goats. And finally after all these years I have a doe to call my own. Well not entirely, see the owner of my farm goes to the livestock auction fairly often and his son begged him for the goat so he got her. Its a young...

Truth be told I have been completely overrun with pigs these past few months. But there was one pig that really got to me. She was born in August to one of my sweet sows Maeja. However throughout her whole time on the property she did nothing but cause trouble. She was the instigator for every...

Ugh, so frustrated I even have to write this. Yesterday morning when my brother went to the barn to let the animals out he found the sheep stall open and grain missing. Last evening I went to the barn and noticed the sheep would not come in the barn. They were just standing there staring out...

I swear its one thing after another with these pigs. To start off I want to say that I know we should have removed the boarlings sooner, but we didn't, why? I couldnt tell ya. We have at least two litters that will be hitting the ground in the next month. It won’t happen again as we have a...

We recently purchased two new gilts off of a couple in NY. They are both bred, with one of them being 100% confirmed by their vet. They said the vet was unsure on the second girl, however, they got them scanned very early on and these girls are quite fat, even for the breed which is a naturally...

Six days ago my sow had a lovely litter of 11 piglets. The only problem being she only had ten teats to nurse the babies. As the days have gone on I noticed that the runt was getting weaker. And so yesterday I finally made the decision to pull the little girl. When I brought her in she was weak...

It has now been a little over a year since we first got our mangalitsa pigs, and man was it a learning experience. Between dealing with our nasty barrows and figuring out proper feed rations it was a lot. But after our barrows left and we had our sweet gilt left, we decided it was time we really...

Well our first round raising pigs for meat went better than I thought it would. I won't lie we had a few...ok a lot of bumps in the road, but now we are more prepared than ever to try again. One of the big issues we had was that our pigs absolutely demolished their shelter we bought for them. It...

I have been debating posting about this for some time but Im curious what others think of her. Little Stella was born a twin on march 15, she was unresponsive when born but I swung her and she was fine. She was normal happy, playful, and nursing. However at two weeks old she got some sort of...

I need to administer a tetanus Antitoxin to my week old lambs as I need to band them. The bottle says: "Tetanus antitoxin confers immediate passive immunity lasting about 7 to 14 days. 1500 units administered subcutaneously or intramuscularly is the recommended dose for prevention"...

My three year old ewe had her first set of twins last week. They seem to be nursing faster than their mama can produce. The mama gets high-quality alfalfa along with about a cup of all-stock and a steady supply of water. Her udder went from huge to about the size of an apple within the three...

I was blessed with two perfect lambs yesterday and both are happy and nursing. It is visible they both have full and rounded tummies. So they will play for ten minutes to an hour and then lay down to rest. I have a few questions because I worry about every little detail and I want to make sure...

My sheep cut his leg today. It was reccommended I give him tetanus antitoxin but before I do anything I want to be 100% sure I know what to do. Ok so I have one 1500 unit vial which it says to give the whole thing to him. I have syringes and needles but Im just curious where should I inject it...

We just expanded our pig pen yesterday! I suppose my gilt got a little too excited and tonight when Im calling the alpacas from our driveway? My gilt Patricia trots up with a happy little greeting. WHAT?! I was so shocked, I ran out and was greeted in the strangest way. 8 alpacas 2 sheep...and a...

Both my ewes are bred and are expecting in Jan-Feb. Rosie is starting to get a bag, so she is due fairly soon. I have a few concerns I would like to address so I can make a plan to keep the newborn lambs healthy and warm. The biggest issue I have at this point is our location. We do not have a...

Before I say anything else, let me just say Kevin will not be going to freezer camp until he is ready(350lbs).These pigs were a big investment, and Kev is the only problem. Most of you who have been following me know our barrow Kevin is far from friendly. I have gotten bit by him three times...

Today I was going to greet my sheep, and the pigs were pacing the fence looking for food. I was about halfway across the field and I heard a "clink" on the fence and I turn around and see a pig running towards me. :thThe barrows have been so mean in the past especially Kevin who has the longer...