Showing posts with label sick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sick. Show all posts
Friday, June 8, 2018

Bloodsuckers (Parasite Problems)

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Dairy goats are plagued by parasites. It's just a fact. Some areas of the country are worse than others, and in some areas resistance ...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Cold Casulties

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We have no snow on the ground - this picture is from a few years ago - but the past week has been intensely cold. Cold for this part of...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Very Sad Day (Goodbye, Django)

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Django in happier days This morning the results of my herd testing for CAE and CL came in. All my goats are negative for CL (so the hole in ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Hole in the Goat Update (When to Cull?)

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The vet finally called me back. He said that while it was hard to tell from just a photo, the wound did not look like CL. Just as some of my...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

What The @$&! is That? (WARNING-graphic picture)

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My doe Django has something horribly, horribly wrong with her. You are all going to judge me for letting something so terrible go on for so ...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Beautiful, Difficult Day (Beating Myself Up)

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This morning dawned bright and clear, with that crystalline sharpness that follows a hard frost. On my way out to the animals, I could see m...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Poppy Update

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The farrier was back again yesterday. He removed her big pink shoes and trimmed them a little and then replaced them, adding another layer o...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Poppy in Trouble (A Girl and her Pony)

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A couple of years ago, I rescued a shetland mare named Rosie. I had stopped in on a whim at a horse sale in my neighborhood and there, among...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Fickleness of Memory (I got the Wormy Wormy Blues)

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We had milk goats when I was a child. It was my job - along with my younger brother - to feed the goats and water them every morning before...
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Friday, April 2, 2010

Fried Baby Goat Brains, and Farmers vs Vets

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Cirrus is the name we decided to give to the beautiful black and white spotted buckling out of Iris. He, along with everyone else, got his h...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Things I Didn't Know About Worms

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I must have misheard the lady on the phone yesterday who called to give me the results of Iris' fecals. I thought she said "nine...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Iris Update

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The vet wants to see Iris. Her fecals were actually pretty clean, so we don't know what's causing these symptoms. Now the question b...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Got My Goat Back

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Storm Cloud, AKA the world's prettiest goat, returned to the farm yesterday. I rented him out to a neighbor as a stud a month ago (which...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Flopsy Update #3

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Hooray! Finally, this morning, I got all the milk out of Flopsy's right side (not left, as previously, erroneously written). Along with ...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Flopsy Update #2

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I can't milk her! This morning, milk came out. Tonight, nothing! Just a drop or two. The teat is plugged solid. The bag is tight. Aack! ...
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Flopsy Update

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The vet says Flopsy has an injury in the teat. Maybe somebody stepped on it, or maybe I injured it myself trying to squeeze out the infected...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Mastitis

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Flopsy has mastitis in her left teat. I'm taking her to the vet today. So far she's had two doses of IM penicillin and two doses of ...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Probable Good News

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Took Clove to the vet this morning, and he said he very much doubts the lumps are CL-related. Just not in the right spot, no lymph nodes nea...

Possible Problem

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I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but Clove (the buckling we intended for our own personal table this year) has two small, suspic...
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Sunday, June 7, 2009

Goat Crisis Part II

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I had to leave in the middle of the last post for church. Home now. Okay, as much for my own records (my blog is my farm record, hah!) here ...
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