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Cara Bleu took a trip to Auburn U. Large Animal Teaching Hospital today. The people there are so great, I highly recommend them. The fees are reasonable too. They sedated her to check in her eye. There was nothing stuck in it and the cornea looked fine as far as they could see with the...

Thanks, I'll try to pry it open more today. I suspect she jammed it on remnants of a little cedar tree the big girls knocked down last year. It's little stump is over by the roots the kids like to play on. Sadly, there's nobody near here that knows a thing about goats. I'd have to drive her over...

It probably took about 5 days for the bottle jaw to go down. A good month or so until she stopped looking so ragged.

I did exactly what you're doing for my doe who had bottle jaw last summer. I did not use red cell. My doe recovered just fine. I would worm your girl again with Ivomec after 10 days.

I went out to the barn yesterday morning to find 10-day old Cara Bleu's eye black and blue and swollen. She only had it open a crack. I rinsed it with saline and weak boric acid solution. I went to the feed store yesterday afternoon and picked up some livestock eye ointment and have cleaned and...

4 kids. Oh my goodness, Mable is going to have her hands full. What a wonderful experience to share with your beautiful daughter. That is just way too much cuteness for one barn.

Yes, thanks Babsbag! I am nervous doing her feet and have to quit when she starts kicking too much. I don't want her to hurt herself or the babies. I haven't been out yet this morning to check on her. I hope she's doing better! I want to at least lift those feet to clean and spray them again.

No problem at all with the 30. I was a first time disbudder last year and had never seen it done in person before. I think I looked at everything there was on the internet. I highly recommend a box to put the kids in. Huge help. I'm afraid that I would have less control with the length of the...

I use the X30 and have no trouble with it. In my research, I thought I understood that the X30 will actually work better for goats because you don't have to add the smaller sized tip. On fiascofarm.com they posted that the X30 took less time per burn than the X50. I'm also glad I did the figure...

Thanks, I'll try for those when I get her on the stand tomorrow.

Nope, they aren't swollen at all. We dealt with toxemia in a doe last spring. It was horrible. This doesn't look like that. The good news is she seems to be getting around better today. It probably doesn't hurt that things have thawed out. I cut her grain back by 30% this morning and gave her...

I hope so too. As I told you in the other thread, I'm wondering if it could be early foundering or laminitis. I don't think her diet is too rich for her size, the weather, and her stage of pregnancy and her hooves aren't in bad shape, but I can't find another disorder that fits. I think I'll...

I'm starting to think maybe it's the beginning of foundering. I don't feed her a particularly rich diet- I don't think a pound of feed and a pound of alfalfa is rich for a fullsized milker. She's been dry about a month in anticipation for kidding mid March. She's always had rather long pasterns...

April 19! Hey, I posted about another doe over in "Diseases". Her back feet are bothering her. Please check out my post and offer suggestions if you have any idea.

I have a 3 year old, CAE negative Lamancha who has been favoring her back feet for a couple of weeks. When I first noticed it, I checked and trimmed her hooves. They needed a little trimming, but there was no sign of rot. She continued to favor them and it seems to have gotten worst with this...

I ended up waiting, and good news. She's pregnant!

I'm afraid you're right. This waiting is killing me though. I really don't want to have to get rid of this doe. I'm hoping she's pregnant this time! She didn't go into heat when she was supposed to (she's very vocal about it) but I am slightly worried because my buck was crazy for her the...

My BFF is in town today and is willing to draw blood for me on my last untested doe. The kicker, she's only 28 days post breeding. Has anyone had luck with the test before the 30 day point? I'll have to wait a couple weeks until she's back in town if we don't draw blood today (I'm hopeless at...

One thing to think about with the ND's is teat size. Sometimes they can be hard to hand milk. My mini-mancha has tiny teats and is much harder to milk than my standard Lamanchas and Alpines. I like the Lamancha milk the best but I'm happy for the volume of milk the Alpines give. Lamancha milk...

I don't know what is causing the string of pearls poo in your kid, but my doe had the same thing when she was suffering from toxemia. She's fully recovered now.