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I have a lamb that I suspect has orf. He has dark brown bumpy scabby places on his lips. I have heard that it's not really treatable and you pretty much have to let it run its course. Would you quarantine the sheep in question by itself? Is there anything you can do to make the sheep more...

I've been trying to get ahold of her to get an update and give her some tips but she's now ghosting me. 🙄 No surprise there. Lesson learned for me I think. I hope the lamb ends up being ok.

Thank you both. I think I'm a little too nice, and need to be more firm, so this gives me the nudge to do what's best for me and my farm. I will check back in with her if she doesn't message and see what's happening. Hopefully things will resolve. I haven't had any issues selling the mini goats...

I just sold a lamb yesterday, the buyer said she wanted a companion for her pet ram lamb and goats. The lamb I was selling is a bottle baby, so very friendly, and I figured it would be a good fit. But I got these messages last night. Like I told her, all the animals in the pen the lamb was...

Some people seem to have forgotten that human lives are priority. I bet if they or their family members were attacked they'd change their tune real quick.

No sign of the cat since Wednesday. Both us and the neighbors across the road have been shooting, running loud equipment and taking frequent walks with weapons and dogs. So far so good. Hopefully it has moved on and will not be back. My family has been praying every night for God to "shut the...

That's terrible they cared more about the motherless cats than the motherless kids.

Yes! What Sagehill said. I had no one to teach me to give shots and had to learn on my own, but after doing the first one you realize it's very simple and easy and doesn't really even hurt the animal unless it's something like ivermectin. I've learned to do SQ, IM and blood draws. Just getting...

Thanks! I'll have to check that out.

It's pretty messed up that we have to hide the fact we are protecting our property, families and livestock from a dangerous predator so we won't get into trouble. 😐 Kind of backwards. But we will be careful about it. Hopefully we won't see any more of it and it will leave, but if it's hungry...

Thank you for your input. They are certainly scary animals. Coyotes and foxes don't worry me, but big cats are a different story. We will certainly be carrying and doing some target practice. That might hopefully discourage a predator lurking as well. If this is a black panther and we kill it...

I was already thinking about moving them down here to the house, only problem is I'm pretty much out of hay and they eat pasture down crazy fast. I don't really have a lot of pasture near the house. If I pen them up by the house for awhile I'm going to need to make a hay run. But I may need to...

It was in the same general area, up on the west pasture hills. My dad is planning on going up there a few times a day since he's not working this week. I'm more comfortable with a .22 not the .350 so he'd have a better chance of killing it. We also talked about tying a lamb out away from the...

We have possible big cat on our property. My youngest sister is 11 and is the only one who has seen it, but she's so terrified we really don't think she's making it up. She's not that type of person. She's also very animal smart and good at describing. The problem is, the big cat she has seen...

Sold Mocha's ram this morning! I almost forgot about the Craigslist post I had it up for so long. He's going to a great home and has 3 new girlfriends.

Thank you! He has a great mom. 😊

I am getting ready to wean lambs. I did a weight check at the end of May and was pretty pleased with the results. Of note was a single ram lamb who weighed 51 lbs at 9 weeks and Mocha's twin ram who weighed 47 lbs at 8 weeks. I had a buyer for him, but they ghosted me. I'm still going to try to...

Thank you! So do I.

I weighed two of the biggest ram lambs today and I was so pleased. The nice black and white ram lamb out of Mocha is 35 pounds at 4 weeks old and the ram lamb out of my milkiest ewe is 38 lbs at 5 weeks old! I think that's pretty good. I'm guessing they will be at least 50 lbs by weaning, maybe...