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Okay, we dont have much of an issue with flies but I got blukote to spray on it today and last night I washed it with iodine. I haven’t seen them this morning but I will check to see if it is still hanging on. Yeah, he had stopped bleeding, it was just the initial blood on him I believe. Will it...

Just as everything is settling down, I went to check and Dilly is bleeding. He was banded approx 4 weeks ago (1 week old but he had dropped) and a livestock vet said the banding looked great but today I went to check and his parts were bleeding and were barely hanging on my a strand. From my...

Dilbert and Cooper, my two wethers, have had their fair share of issues with lice, eye infections and scours. I thought they were on the road to recovery with a new diet and some medications (ProBios and Pedialyte) but out of no where yesterday Cooper got a bad case of the scours. I am thinking...

We have small dog sweaters for them, unfortunately they are at the size where neither pairs fit. (Ones are super small and some are just a little bit too big) :barnie I do put the bigger ones on sometimes if I am down there with them but I am too worried about them getting caught on something to...

I completely agree. They are going to get 5 ounces 4 times a day for another week and then they will be going down to 3 times a day after that. I do think the feedings were too little. I just can’t seem to find that happy medium. :( I hope this works out! :bow

Both boys became bloated, had the scours and Dilbert had become dreary. After a fecal/blood exam and a physical exam showed nothing she told us that the 8 oz feeding was far too much. Since cutting the milk and introducing hay/pellets all of that has stopped and they have less fat but aren’t...

The only reason they will start screaming is when people leave, other than that they re super quiet kids. If anyone is even sitting in the pen (doesn’t have to be paying attention) they will go on playing around and jumping on things. They have tons of logs, chairs, benches and such to play...

Most weeks here are pretty okay, mid 30’s to high 40’s but we are having a cold snap this week. Unfortunately that is kind of the regular for here, WA doesn’t have the greatest climate. :( I am considering adopting a senior doe to live with them in hope that she could provide them company, is...

So here in Seattle the temp has been around 25-35 degrees on a daily basis. The boys get cold and I just can’t bare to leave them outside so on the colder days I have brought them inside for a few hours. As it has gotten colder I have had to do this more often and it is getting exhausting and...

Whoops!! :( Still learning my way around, probably should learn to check the dates.

Hi! I am new to this forum but I’ve been around chickens since I was a toddler. I am far from being an ‘expert’ but I have found that different feed brands work for different things. Some are more fattening, some are meant for eggs and some even to brighten feathers for showing chickens. What...

It looks browner today, still a hint of purple. Dilbert is now on a probiotic and a type of elctrolytes so he seemed a bit out of it today. Cooper seems very well though so I don’t think any of these symptoms are due to the disbudding spots.

The farm we got them from gave us the instruction to feed them 8 ounces 4 times a day, we decided to take their word for it. When we took them into an emergency vet we were told that was twice as much as they should be fed. They also did not alert us that the goats had lice nor that both were...

Thank you so much for the info! I will definitely do so. I did post a thread about their disbudding earlier today. The boys are 3 weeks old tomorrow, they both way exactly 7 pounds. I’m in the Seattle area so pretty cold and rainy during winter and fall. Look forward to hopefully hearing more...

So today I decided to research and make sure our goats were properly disbudded and banded. After looking at a few things I saw that ours were not as most people’s looked. From what I saw most were brown and copper but ours are a deep purple. The dsibudding was done about two weeks ago but the...