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    Using a calf as a horse companion.

    We're in Southern Ontario, do you know the name of any groups in this area?
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    Using a calf as a horse companion.

    We are downsizing and have sold our small flock of sheep that shares our barn with a horse that we've been keeping for a friend. She's trying to find another home for the horse as soon as possible but in the meantime we're worried about him being alone. Our neighbours are dairy farmers and I'm...
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    Still alive and up and about today...I even caught him drinking AND eating a bit yesterday and today and he was outside of his own free will this evening. Fingers crossed that that's the end of whatever that was. He's not 100% but he has made improvements. :D
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    Drenched again with Gatorade yesterday afternoon. He had seemed perkier in the morning as he was standing up when I went into the barn. Rotated the pasture and forced him outside but all he does is lay next to the fresh grass, not eating. Like I said before, he ate a bit of hay the other day...
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    There was no change this morning, still alive, still just sitting there. So I went out and bought Gatorade and beer...lol. When I got back I drenched him with the Gatorade, that was amusing. After that I was feeding hay to the rest of the crew and I brought him some into the barn and offered...
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    Still not eating as far as I can tell, not sure if he's drinking but I did see him pee a little bit today when I was in the barn. Still discharge around the nose. Another shot today, the neighbour says that he should've shown improvement by day two and by today if the drug isn't working then...
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    As far as I can tell he's not drinking or peeing. He will lift his head and seem to grind his teeth while pushing out his stomach and/or breathing heavily, I can't tell which. There's nothing that he could have gotten into that would have upset him and I can't tell if he's bloated really...
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    If he's not eating then it would be quiet anyways right? What would that tell me about what he's suffering from?
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    The neighbour came over and took his temp, 102 which I believe is still in the normal range? He does seem to have laboured breathing so the neighbour gave him a shot of something for pneumonia and then we let him and the rest of the boys out. I thought we were making the right decision by...
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    They're still eating pasture grass. That I go out and cut down by hand. We just let them all out. Breeding will just have to happen when it happens at this point. I just want him to get better.
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    Ram NOT eating at all!

    Our three year old ram is doing a lot of laying down and from what I can tell, no eating whatsoever. We separated him and two ram lambs a few weeks back to keep them from breeding the ewes and he was doing fine. They are in a stall in the barn full time instead of being out on pasture but he...
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    Farmer etiquette; hay cutting mistake

    I don't think it's a jerky thing for sure, he just cuts our acre of hay when he cuts his three hundred, and since he has cows it doesn't seem to matter as much to him the quality of it, to a point. And the ridiculous rain this spring didn't help with the timing and such. We have a horse that...
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    Farmer etiquette; hay cutting mistake

    Our neighbors, who are the most delightful people on the face of the planet, have helped us a lot since we city folk moved to our little farm. He cuts and bales our hay for us and last year it worked out pretty good. This year is all muddled. I'll save the long story but somehow we ended up...
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    Small flock issues; how to breed certain rams to certain ewes.

    We have a small flock of Gotland/Finn's consisting of two rams and three ewes. We want to breed certain rams to certain ewes but since they run together all year on pasture and share the barn as shelter, I feel like we may have an impossible situation. They haven't shown any signs that...
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    Limping ram; Do we keep him in a stall or leave him turned out?

    Our two year old ram is suddenly limping with his back right leg. We don't know what happened. We checked and trimmed his feet today and didn't notice anything in particular, although I'm not really sure what I should have been looking for. He's been laying down in the pasture all day, sort...
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    Cleaning out a deep litter barn.

    So you're saying I should hire a bunch of guys to do it while I nap and/or sip lemonade and then claim exhaustion when my husband gets home because I did it all myself? ;) It's packed down so hard at this point I'm not sure it can be done by hand...
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    Cleaning out a deep litter barn.

    We've been tossing straw on the barn floor for the past year trying to use the "deep litter" method. Well kill me now because I attempted to start cleaning it out today because I'm sick and tired of not being able to get our doors open and not only does the pitchfork practically bend when I try...
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    Pasture rotation interruption; urgent

    Ok so it's supposed to rain tonight and all day tomorrow and I have no where to bring in a 1/4 acre of hay to dry it. Since it was just cut yesterday, is it better to let it get rained on while it's in windrows and then rake it and dry it after? The farmer next door says that hay that...
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    Pasture rotation interruption; urgent

    Lol, yes it does!! So do you mean I should move them and let them eat the mowed hay where it lies? Or would it be better to bale what's there and feed on the dry lot? We don't really have a "dry lot" per se but an area in front of the barn that is trampled. Then we would start the...
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    Pasture rotation interruption; urgent

    We move our sheep in pasture every three days, we've been doing this for two months now and had just reached the point where they were going to go back where they started. Well due to a miscommunication with the farmer next door who cuts our hay, he cut that area down. What's on the ground can...
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