Posts by bheila

If you're planning on doing it yourself I highly recommend this bander for the bigger guys http://www.nobull.net/bander/SBsummary.htmlj This is what our vet used. Less invasive than surgically castrating them. Of course you'll need to...

Depends on how big he is. I banded our 6 month olds with no problem. We recently acquired another bull that is too large for my bander. Our vet will charge us $2 to sedate and $10 to band.

That's not CL.  Definitely has some serious skin issues going on.  Lice, mites...etc.  I'd be taking the poor thing to have a skin scraping done.

...my chicken obsession turned into a goat obsession

I would never buy a goat from a breeder who had CAE + goats.  Find someone else who has a negative herd.  Ask to see the lab results also.  I would never go by anyones word.

Well of course your last goats favorite treat was chicken feed because they're not suppose to eat it!I bought a doe from someone on BYC.  Her brother apparently bred her when they were only 2 months old.  She didn't tell me...

Could he be bloated?  What is his temp?  What did you worm him with and how much?  Is he peeing and pooping normal?

Most goats can be tamed   I say this because I got a wild 4yr old pygmy/nigi doe last winter.  The previous owners had owned her for all of those 4 years.  They never trimmed her hooves in 4 years or paid any attention to...

Quote:Originally Posted by cmjust0 Quote:Originally Posted by rebbetzin http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/Rebbetzin/Email%20icons/bigthink.gifHMMM, I think I will now become a...

  Yes, I was thinking the same as you.  I never realized that "math" would involve taking apart words