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    HELP for 8.5 week old kid. Please! Anyone?

    Hi everyone, could you please read this and let ,e know what you think? Thank you. "Ok. I have had a fecal sent to MSU by the vet. But my girl is 8.5 weeks old. A week ago today she almost died. Diagnosed with polio and GI ulcers. We are still working through it. (She had just finished...
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    Just got the results of my first fecals.

    Well, I just got the results of the first fecals that I sent off. Can anyone give me some advice? Should I deworm? Four goats need nothing but maybe three do. At least Cocci is out, I am happy about that. These are my results.
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    What qualifications do you have to raise goats?

    I was wondering what qualifications everyone has for raising their goats.
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    What microscope for fecals?

    I want to try doing my own fecals but what microscope should I get? I have one of those cheap 100/400/900x microscopes that I have had since I was a teenager.
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    Hello, everyone. I am in trouble again.

    My Peanut lost all of her triplets. She is now having trouble herself. She is slow, losing weight, stumbling once in a while. She fell over a tree root today and could not raise herself up. I rolled her over and held her until she could get up. Yesterday, I have her 1 ml high level vit b...
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    Hello eveyone. I am in trouble again.

    sorry wrong thread. My Peanut lost all of her triplets. She is now having trouble herself. She is slow, losing weight, stumbling once in a while. She fell over a tree root today and could not raise herself up. I rolled her over and held her until she could get up. Yesterday, I have her 1 ml high...
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    Help! 2 month old mini goat in trouble

    My 2 month old goat was fine 6 hours ago just cold. We had a cold front come through. But now he keeps falling forward. His front legs are buckling under him and he is crying. Anyone know what is wrong?
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    ISO poultry hatching eggs with shipping

    Hi, just got an incubator for Christmas. I am looking for eggs to hatch. Interested in purebred ducks, geese, purebred chickens, breeding that will result in chickens that lay blue/green eggs, breeding that result in sex licked chickens. Let me know what you got.
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    Minisilkys 2019 kidding

    Izzy will be the first to kid this year. She is a pygmy. She was born Feb 28, 2018 and was a twin. Her kidding date is either March 4 or 6. Her mother was born March 7, 2015. Her udder is nice so far but is not tight yet. She started filling it mid-Jan. Her ligaments have stared softening that...
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    Goat Sudden trouble seeing

    It was raining all day yesterday here. Well the last few days, actually most of this month. Anyway, the goats would not come out of their house yesterday so I gave them their hay in there. Today when I went out to check on the goats when the rain finally cleared out, three of my four girls were...
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    New goat breed

    Has anyone heard of the new goat breed developed in 2010? Can anyone guess?
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    Mini Silky's Kidding 2018

    I am going to go ahead and start a kidding thread even though I do not know when it will happen. I think soon but I don't have any due dates. This is because I was keeping my does locked away from my buck until my youngest was 1 year old (which was in Jan. when I turned them out) but they are...
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    Hello from Mini Silky owner.

    Hello everyone. I am new to BYH and have never posted about my animals until now. I currently own three Mini Silky goats (1B,2D), numerous chickens (all different breeds, including Silkies), ducks(Muscovy and Khaki Champbell at the moment), 1 GSD, 10 cats (1 orange house cat and 9 outside that...
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