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I have a week old jersey calf. Got him from a sale. He ate 2 quarts last night and then ate 2 quarts this morning but wouldn’t drink this evening. Too full? We are feeding rumor medicated milk replacer. Any suggestions? Also he seems lazy. I have to pick him up to get him up most of the time...

So I was wondering with the powerball so large, what would you do if you won the 900 million dollar jackpot. my list seems endless for my hobby farm!!!!!

So I have a Great Pyrenees mix, Winston(i'll include a photo as soon as I have a updated one). He is awesome to say the least and will be a year old in November, but lately he has had some odd behavior. I caught him chasing the sheep, one sharp "no" and he stopped immediately and was very...

I have not seen any post by @Southern by choice in forever. I do not know her, other than advice she has given me on my pyr cross and by reading her very informative and witty stories. I have been off the site for a month or so, just busy-ness of summer, and since I have been back on, there...

I have a nanny that kidded a few weeks ago. she is limping. I checked her hoof and between it, it is moist and stinks. like really bad atheletes foot. I don't think it is hoof rot but I am not sure. any advice will help.

Have you ever had a pregnant ewe prolapse? she should lamb any day and my wife just found her. do you know what to do. I have no harness or spoon. never thought about it. should I try to gently massage it back in. i'll post a picture but it is nasty

Can anyone give me advice on how to read the usda market prices for lambs. I am having a heck of a time reading this thing. I have just been taking the market weight span and that market price span, finding that average and then dividing the price by pound. does that make sense? we have a...

So we now have a LGD (pup) he is 19 weeks old. I have read every forum on here, especially @Southern by choice's articles. He is a "Watcher" from what I can tell. He acts as if I am not there but is very conscious of my wife and daughters and stays close to them and the goats. The goats are...

we have Suffolk cross ewes that we are breeding to a north country cheviot ram. Lambs are arriving as we speak so I thought I would start my lambing thread, we actually had a oops back in October from a ewe that was already bred.

We had our first Boer/Nubian cross kid on Saturday. She is a FF and right at a year old. Her bag had filled in a matter of hours so my wife and I decided to put her in a stall just to be safe. We went to the house for about 2 hours, and thought we would just pop back down to check on her...

Hi all. My name is Jon and I am from Indiana. I am married and have three daughters. Safe to say that things are a little one sided in my house!! We have 10 ewes (Suffolk crosses), and a North Country Cheviot buck, 5 goats, a Nubian, and three of her Nubian/Boer cross daughters, along with a...

I need help. We have sheep and goats and I want to creep feed my lambs (Suffolk/North Country Cheviot crosses). Here is my problem. We have 5 goats. Nubian and Nubian/Boer crosses, large goats. I can't make a creep feed door that the very determined goats can't get through with out the...

I just want to preface this with "I love backyardherds.com!" I find it so amusing when I log on and the first pictures I see scrolling along the top include, babies of all sorts!! Followed by bull riding, oozing sores, snotty noses, mucus discharge, udders/teats, and vulvas!! I laugh at...

Back story. We have a 4h County Fair where I live. It is in July. A pygmy escaped, traveled through our very rural county park and approx. 3 miles away. I work for the local sheriff's department and there have been many attempts to catch her. She has found a great place, by the river on a...

i have a 9 month old Nubian boer cross doe. she weighs about 100 lbs and at 8 months I bred her. two days ago I noticed a bloody discharge, not so much a discharge and a bloody goop, on her tail and all over her vulva. I know she is only a month along, but I wanted to see if you all thought...

I cleaned out my garden yesterday. Standing cornstalks, green and pole bean vines, cabbages bases, and jalapenos (I left the tomato vines, I know not to feed them). I threw all of this over in to the sheep/goat pasture. None of the animals were around they were all at the barn, and honestly...

I have two six month old boer/Nubian cross does. I also have their Nubian mother. She is six and always keeps a bag. 3 months ago I weaned her kids, they were off of her for 3 weeks and it looked to me that she had dried up. I haven't paid much attention to her nor them since, in ref to...

I had a goat given to me. the previous owner told me she was two years old and had never been bred. I believe him. he told me she may be pregnant. that was an understatement!! she kidded 3 days after I got her home! here's the back story. dogs got into his goats and killed all but the one...

this is the best picture I have. it has/can stand and drink. one of triplets. one triplet still born and the other is very weak and won't get up at all yet. trying to get some colostrum in it to give it a pep. Any advice is appreciated!!

We lost our first lamb yesterday. I think it may have been deformed. I had penned the ewe off, because I knew she should be close. Went down to the barn and she had it, but it just doesn't look right. Its stomach was distended, head was very dome shaped, was missing an eye, and its tail was...