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  1. Ariel301

    many questions on new babies:)

    It sounds like they are doing fine. It's normal for them to have a scab come off after disbudding, and sometimes they do bleed. Just watch it to make sure it does not get infected. I wouldn't put anything on it unless it looks really bad. They see you as their family, and being social animals...
  2. Ariel301

    My 3 LaMancha's / Show Conformation??

    I'd call them Gold (or tan), black, Chamoise. As for show quality...There's no reason your kids couldn't have a good time showing them in 4-H. They're not "top of the line" as far as conformation (i.e. you probably wouldn't win the ADGA Nationals with them), but they're not unsound either. I'd...
  3. Ariel301

    Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

    Well, we got brave and cut into one of the lumps last night, this one was on top of the shoulder blade of a yearling doe. The skin had cracked on it and started to bleed, so we got in there with a scalpel, and found...something. It was deep, down inside the muscle itself instead of under the...
  4. Ariel301

    Desperate for help

    You don't necessarily NEED a C-Section. Though it's unnerving thinking that it won't be available in the case that it is necessary. I had a 50-ish pound mini doe kid with a nearly 8 pound single doeling this spring. She got it out, though it took a good deal of assistance. The kid was about 1/3...
  5. Ariel301

    Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

    There's not a vet within a hundred miles who will biopsy it, otherwise I'd have done that already. Vets here don't know anything about goats, they don't even know what their normal temperature should be! I've been looking for a lab I can send a biopsy to if I could get one myself, but haven't...
  6. Ariel301

    New "goat parent", worried about one of my does

    As long as she is eating hay and drinking water well and does not seem sick and is not losing weight, I wouldn't worry a lot. Maybe she doesn't like the new grain as much, or she doesn't need as much of it.
  7. Ariel301

    Only one teat filling?

    Can you get ahold of her and feel the udder? See if it feels hot or lumpy or anything abnormal. Is it possible that another goat, or herself is nursing on the one side so that it is always empty?
  8. Ariel301

    What is the best goat for a mixed dairy/meat goat?

    I hate that kind of thing. I showed horses in 4H and my Arabian mare always came in dead last in halter classes because they judged all the halter horses to Quarter Horse standards regardless of breed. And she'd get knocked down in riding classes because she went around with her tail waving in...
  9. Ariel301

    Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

    I have already done this. In fact, multiple times. That's how I know it's not CL. No, there is no appearance of a wound or hole or anything like that with these lumps. The first one to appear, the head lump on Juniper, I thought maybe was a splinter or something that got in there and was...
  10. Ariel301

    Clipping a horn scur? *Pics added*

    Put him in something that restrains him well so he can't thrash his head around, and carefully cut it a little at a time. Hoof trimmers work pretty well if it's small, or rose bush trimmers. If you just take off the end, it may bleed a little, but won't put him in serious danger (unless we're...
  11. Ariel301

    So i was wondering

    If they can still fit in the disbudding iron (and/or you can use a calf disbudding tip), say around an inch long, you can do them if you're experienced enough, but it won't be fun. Not a project for a novice disbudder, as you would have to burn, cut the end off, burn again, etc till you get to...
  12. Ariel301

    Laminitis and Molasses?

    She's negative for Johne's, CAE, and CL. She was on corn oil, up to a half cup a day, and wasn't gaining. But she was also eating 2-3 pounds of grain with that, and I discovered the grain was giving her digestive problems that were in turn causing the laminitis and weight issues (and it doesn't...
  13. Ariel301

    Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

    Northwest Arizona. I'm going to cut into Juniper's head lump in the next few days and see what's in there, hers is the only one that doesn't feel like it has veins in it.
  14. Ariel301

    Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

    Anyone know where would be a likely place to send a sample? And what to send them...since there's nothing in there to collect with a needle, I imagine I'd have to cut off the lump and send them that!
  15. Ariel301

    Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

    The problem is, these don't have pus in them like CL knots. I've stuck a needle in to drain them, and there's nothing there. The first goat has a lump on the very top of the head (not a CL site) that has been there for months now, and shown no indications that it's ever going to burst. The...
  16. Ariel301

    Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

    I posted a while back about a goat with an odd hard lump on top of her head. I've tried repeatedly to drain it, and found that it is not an abscess (hence not CL) but is solid...whatever it is. I haven't found a vet who will do anything for me. I have been planning to remove it myself and just...
  17. Ariel301

    Laminitis and Molasses?

    Our feed store only has shreds. She hates them dry, and will only nibble maybe half a mouthful wet. I'm currently also giving her alfalfa pellets, and the owner of our feed store recommends an alfalfa and molasses feed for putting weight on animals, but I don't know if the molasses is likely to...
  18. Ariel301

    Weaning help....

    This is why I switched to bottle feeding. I had dam-raised kids separated for SIX MONTHS that ran right back to their moms to nurse when they were put back together, and the does would try to kick them away, but at that point, the yearling kids were big and strong and the does couldn't...
  19. Ariel301

    Laminitis and Molasses?

    She's in milk, but doesn't gain even when dry. We just recently figured out the grain was affecting her, and my grain did not have molasses in it, but a lot of feeds do, so I was wondering if molasses typically bothers chronically laminitic horses. If so, I'll steer clear of molasses feeds just...
  20. Ariel301

    Laminitis and Molasses?

    This is actually referring to a goat with laminitis, but there is almost no information around on laminitis in the goat, since it is primarily a horse condition, so I thought I'd try the horse people. Let's pretend she's a horse with chronic founder for a while. She's extremely sensitive to...
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