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    Sow avoiding boar

    Well we have been breeding our tamworth sow to a tam/berk boar for almost 4.5 years, last February (5 months ago) our sow was almost ready to farrow and suffered stillborn piglets due to a situation which stressed her out. I have seen the boar breed her multiple times as recent as a few weeks...
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    wormers etc.

    I have my general emergencies supplies at hand at all times which includes Ivomec injectible which I use to worm orally. Now I have highland cattle and a son travelling to the states Saturday and loves going to tractor supply. Can you all tell me what your favorite wormer is so I can have a...
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    I won, I won...

    so 3 years ago the intent was to get some laying hens... which expended into breeding turkeys, pigs, sheep, goats, ducks... always got the "NO" to cattle but guess what arrived on Saturday... :celebrate I win! lol 26 month old highlands... now to get a yound bull to breed them then off the...
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    piglets are here

    Came home from work last night to find piglets She had 11, one got out of the hut and she must not have noticed and 2 likely squished but 8 healthy babies is awesome. It is shocking that they are only 1/8 berk but the spots are so dominant.
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    surprise... kids, updated with pictures

    Came home... puttered around, made dinner.... about 2 1/2 hours later wander to the barn and maaaaaa, maaaaaa, maaaaaa! Not one, not two but three kids from not one, not two but three does! All babies were within 2 hours old and we MISSED it! We got a pure boer buckling, all brown like his...
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    Help... sick boar, won't get up

    So boris our 670 pound boar refused food yesterday morning... first sign of a pig not feeling well. I immediately gave him ivomec injectible, injected into a bagel which he happily ate. Last night we forced him up and he ate his dinner unwillingly. This morning he won't get up, he is quite...
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    ewe lamb is skinny

    I bought a horned dorset cross (don't know what the cross was) ewe lamb about 6 weeks about, I was told she was about 6 months old ... she hadn't been sheared or well cared for. Last weekend we had a guy come and clip nails, worm and sheared the couple of sheep that don't drop their coats...
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    UPDATE Miller is thriving... mommy sheep is lopsided.. thoughts?

    one of our Katahdin ewes birthed twins the Saturday before last... other mature ewe is much larger (having had a single 15.5 poundr last year!!) larger than the first ewe and larger than last year.... We keep checking her whohaa... somedays we think yay... they she giggles and doesn't birth...
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    Babies...

    Put one of our ewes into the lambing pen last night... was thinking she would go tonight but this morning... pure bred katahdin lambs, ewe and ram :love
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    Selon-E in difficient areas

    We have a selenium deficient area, when the lambs and goats were born last year we gave them a shot of selon-e but no where can I find info on what to give adult sheep and goats (all pregnant).. if we are in a deficient area surely we should give them a shot but if so how much?
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    Mad escaping feeder pigs....

    So our tam gilt had her first babies July 12th.... they were about the cutest things EVER even when they ran through the field fence to explore the main yard, our response to that was to put fishing mesh around the parimeter..... fast forward 5 months... They push the field fence up into the...
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    lamb down.... HELP!!

    I noticed a 9 month old suffolk lamb laying down last night when bringing them their grain.... she got up to eat but still odd. She was out today with the others but we just got home and she is laying there baaing a bit (never was a big baaer)... there is nothing noticable illness wise and the...
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    rent a buck!

    Very excited... a neighbour loaned me his boer buck.... who is throwing triplets!, turned him in with the girls (2 boer, 1 sanaan/alpine blend)... the boers are both young and never been bred and the wether wouldn't stay in the same pen last night... :gig very excited for sometime within the...
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    stock tank heater 1250 watts.... and the extention cord?

    So we were looking at a stock tank heater which comes on and off based on tempertaure. It indicated that you can not use with an extention cord.... so what are my options? I can put in a new plug which I would rather not do.. But I wonder if I can just change up the cord to make the distance...
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    chronic diarrhea

    I have a 8 month old suffolk ewe that has diarrhea for ages, 4 weeks or so.... her rear is caked up and it can't be good for her. She is active and eating fine... same as usual. Everyone else is fine, 8 sheep and 4 goats.... just her runny butt, I have wormed her with no change... she is eating...
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    ovinet for sheep and goats

    we have a large area which is thick woods and we wanted to put the goats back there to help with cleanup.... we managed to clean out an area where this netting would go grounded one end and attached the wire clip to the hot wire running around the pens pen.... nothing, shorts out even the pens...
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    udder issue?

    I have a katahdin ewe who weened her lamb about a month ago, I have noticd that one side of her udder has returned to normal but the other side is about the size or a baseball... it feels warm but so does everyone today and she is fairly skittish to be touched at the best of times. I have...
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    Away ... no vets, dogs... HUGE flea infestation

    We are away, we have the dogs with us. One of them has allergies which we assumed was causing his scratching (he is a rescue shepherd) but the base of his tail is BARE of fur from chewing, I looked and he has fleas. We are huge proponents of the vet supplied collars for fleas and don't find the...
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    Ram lamb... breeding then freezer?

    Last year we had intact ram lambs which went to freezer camp at about 7 or 8 months old, they had no ewes around them to tempt a testosterone surge and the meat was awesome. This year I have breeding stock and I have a ram lamb which was intended for the freezer however I like his lines and...
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    uncoordinated newborn piglet

    So further to my recent post of the arrivale we have an issue with the first born. It is one of the bigger piglets (not that any of them are huge) when it was born it would stagger all over the place, fall over and walk backward..... obvously something happened to it neurologically at birth...
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