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    Okay, I'm pretty sure they are seizures... she died today.

    Mine eat fescue all day, every day, and Kentucky's definitely a 'summer slump' state when it comes to cattle.. Never seen any ill effects from it in my herd.
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    Scaly around her eyes

    Did you ask him if the area from whence you got your hay was selenium deficient? He'd have said "Well, uh, I couldn't say" at which point you should have just stared at him until he realized how short sighted he'd been.
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    9 month old wether walking around on knees

    Sounds like it was probably scald.. It gets between their claws, just like it gets between our toes.. They're hairy all over, so it can be hard to see any redness or irritation. Scald can be a little stubborn.. The only thing I've found that works is something copper sulfate based, like...
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    Deworming Kids

    Why do you need to deworm an 8wk old kid?
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    9 month old wether walking around on knees

    I had my edit window open too long.. Had I seen this, I wouldn't have even posted.. :lol: x2 :thumbsup
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    9 month old wether walking around on knees

    I'd lean less toward something obscure and more toward something simple and common...like foot scald. Check between his toes. You may see a white powder, or maybe some redness or swelling. Something like that. Basically, foot scald is like athlete's foot. Sometimes it's really obvious, and...
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    Pregnant doe looking poor...LOOK AT LUCY NOW :) UPDATE WITH PICS!

    In my humble experience, the thinner a goat is, the paler its eyelids will be. I think it's got to do with overall hydration, because I've also seen goats go from nice fleshy pink to WHITE in a matter of hours as they dehydrated with bacterial scour. And the thinner a goat is, the quicker it...
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    worming question

    Where's ya hear the 18 hour thing? Not questioning, just curious. I haven't done any research on COWP in a while..
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    St Bernard and Nigerian Dwarfs

    Will the dog chase a ball or frisbee? If so, it'll probably chase a goat. If not, then prey drive is probably low enough to consider a trial run as a LGD...if you can handle an 'oops, guess that didn't work' situation that may involve an injury to a goat. St. Bernards are Molosser dogs, and...
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    cmjust0 article about colors of dierherea

    In a nutshell, based on my experience... When I see a goat with scour, I evaluate the color, consistency, frequency, level of foulness, changes in body condition, demeanor, dietary changes -- all kinds of things. And what I've found is that you can usually -- USUALLY -- use that information to...
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    cmjust0 article about colors of dierherea

    wow. so i guess i'm officially the 'color of poo' guy. :/ :lol:
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    mites!.. nope, LICE! ew

    I always think about it like this...if I was suffering with _______, would I "try" homeopathic/organic/'green' treatment using _________ first and see what happened, or would I go straight to modern medicine? When it comes to lice...uh, yeah...I don't think I'd mess around with it for long if...
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    mites!.. nope, LICE! ew

    Ivermectin given orally in goats is very poorly absorbed by the bloodstream. If you want to be sure to kill external parasites, it *must* be in the bloodstream. Therefore, oral ivermectin for external parasites isn't the best option. And I especially don't recommend giving pour-ons orally...
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    mites!.. nope, LICE! ew

    If they're creepy crawly and you can *see* them, it's almost certainly lice and not mites. Mites burrow into the skin...all you ever really see of mites are the crusty, scaley, oozy damage they cause to the skin. She may have that too, in which case she's got both mites and lice. Meh. :)...
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    Will she get pneumonia?Bottle baby strangled on milk....

    I've had em hack and cough and choke and slobber...you name it. Never had one truly aspirate, though. At least, not to my knowledge, which means I never had one get *sick* from it. Keep an eye out, of course, but I'd say she's fine. :)
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    coughing

    People use ivermectin when they suspect it's lungworm, which usually isn't the case. It's usually dry hay, or an upper respiratory infection, pneumonia, something like that. I'd take his temperature.. If it's 104 or above, start him on antibiotics because it's probably an infection. If it's...
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    sick goat again

    The problem with that thinking, for me, is that if you're relying on FAMACHA, you don't know whether the goats you haven't had to deworm in years are resistant or resilient in regard to barberpole worms. And there's a HUGE difference. What I mean is that you can't know from FAMACHA whether...
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    Kids and Hot Wire

    Nope, that's how it should be. Train'em right when they're itty bitty with a good hot fence and you'll actually have far less problems down the road.
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    White blisters

    Don't say that. Hoof and mouth is one of those things where "they" come around to every goat producer in a ___ mile radius of the outbreak, wearing white tyvek suits with hoods, gathering up all the goats to slaughter on-site, and burn the carcasses. Don't even THINK it. :hide
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    How to get the rumen moving if she can't eat? She's FINALLY home!!!

    Ooops.. :hide Yep, you got me there.. For some reason I was just thinking about 'the hose'...not which does what past the larynx. But you're right. Good catch!
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