I have Skye for sale. She is a 2 year old first freshener. She freshened on February 12th with a single buckling. I have been drying her off for about 2 weeks and she still gives me a pint every other day. She is friendly and did not have any problems kidding and was a great mom. I would like...
Went to Lowes, they did not have a vacuum relief valve. Does anyone know if the one I found on ebay will work? I included the link. I want a 3/4" because I can use 3/4" PVC to make the manifold. A picture of a manifold is in the bottom link, scroll down half way and you can see the PVC manifold...
I leave mine. The chickens scratch through it, I even encourage it by throwing out a little cracked corn they must dig for. It keeps it turned and grass seeds picked out. Mine is outside in the weather, goats won't touch hay on the ground. I clean it up once a month and add it to my compost bin...
Annabell is doing good. She still doesn't have much of an appetite, but she does eat a little. She really wants to go back with the herd. Being herd Queen and then being absent has turned my herd upside down. I let Annabell out for a while on Saturday, supervised, and all she was concerned with...
As many of you know, I had a goat to get very sick and now I'm trying to reintegrate her into the herd. Annabell was herd queen, but now Millie is. They go at each other like two dogs. Annabell has broken off both her horn buds and I cleaned that up. So for some peace in my herd and to get a...
I just wanted to post this so that new goat owners out there know the facts about what I did and what I learned from this experience.
My husband asked me last night if I see now that I made a mistake taking Annabell to the hospital. I of course said NO because "I'm never wrong". But this got...
The afternoon flush got a lot of the tissue, infection and retained placenta out. The vets were really pleased.
She is doing really well and I have reached my $ limit really quick. She is staying over night tonight and they will do another uterine flush tomorrow and we will take her home. I...
She is walking around good today and ate some. Her appetite is still off, she didn't finish her goat chow. She is no longer getting IV fluids, but they are still giving her oxytocin. She will have a uterine flush and hopefully they can get her to pass the rest. She has a fever and her heart rate...
I'm just so glad that I work with a bunch of good people. I work at the Vet School and get to go down and visit her often. My husband works in the barn so he's right there to check on her and called me when she woke up. I'm just counting my blessings and hopefully in a couple of days Annabell...
She is up and ate a little alfalfa hay. She drank a little too. She was walking around a bit and you could tell that she is just so tired and painful. She is sitting like a dog in the corner resting her head on the wall because her tummy is sore and can't lay down comfortably, makes sense to me...
She's in her stall with her head laying on a pillow. She is doing good, but looks really swollen. They said it's because of the way she's laying, flat out. They are watching her to make sure she is still breathing and the blood work came back not too bad, but with the surgery and opening her up...
It was a baby boy. It had been dead for sometime. She is full of infection. He cleaned her up but did not want to spay her because of the infection. They won't know if the baby died and it caused the infection or she got a uterine infection and the baby died. I am prepared to let her go. He...
Should have an update soon. They were sedating her at 10:30. She walked right into the operating room and I put her on the table. They were still unable to tell if it is 2 or 1 and if they are both dead.
Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes.
Annabell is at UGA Vet Hospital and they are going to do a c-section. They believe both babies are dead and need to be removed. They are deciding on how to cut her; depending on where the babies are. If they go through the abdomen, I told them to spay her because I don't want to put her through...