After fighting her all morning for 1/2 ounce of mom's colostrum in a bottle, I put her back in with momma. She finally figured out how to suck and has a fat belly by 2pm. Her mother was very patient, and she knew the baby wasn't doing it right, she even let me milk her. She is a crazy goat...
How much nutria drench can I give a 1 day old goat kid? Would a dab of raw pure honey be a better choice?
She is weak, standing, but not walking, she gives up nursing momma too easily, even though momma is trying to be patient with her. I force fed her 3 times yesterday, and gave her 1 squirt...
I was able to get a straw and fill up the reservoir in the back hole. I took a coat hanger and moved the first two pipped eggs around, they were dead, the two that were alive were making a lot less noise and activity. At this point, I opted to open the incubator and check the two that had...
Im on day 22 of lockdown, I have 4 pipped eggs, and 1 half unzipped. The incubator is running dry on water, and im not sure what to do about adding water... cracking open a corner with a straw? im afraid one that pipped might not be surviving, and 3 pips aren't even trying. they may be a...
I pulled the egg turner out, wet the chicken egg pips with a damp paper towel. They arent moving or making any noise.......then i picked up the quail eggs to move them and one cracked all tge way around in my hand..... he was born 20 minutes later.....he sure is a fussy butt too. :jumpy
I just wanted to post closure on this post. The chicken is healing up well, she is learning how to eat chicken treats, and it wont belong until she is ready to be put in general population......with my other ladies. ;)
I guess with these hot temperatures the chicks were developing before i set them. Day 18 is monday and i have 2 pips tonight with low humidity. Whoops now im in trouble. Any advice what i should do with the pipped eggs? How should i lay the already pipped eggs?
This chicken was brought to me by a friend whom found her on the side of the road. Her guess, she fell off a commercial chicken truck. She is a debeaked fryer bird and has alot of scabs on this wing, behind her comb, and on her leg joints. The rest of the scabs dont look too bad. She looks...
My goats, the ducks, and The neibors donkey also loves watermelon rind. But all thats left is tiny pumpkin and watermelon plants. The pet sitter fed ALL the pumpkins to the chickens.... I had 4 bushels of sugar babies that vanished in 2 weeks... I was sooo mad! My chickies got FAT!:cd
Its fixing to freeze in texas... that means I ought to scrounge the greens from the fall/ winter veggies.
That means its thanksgiving buffet early at the Kims farm. Ive got goats, chickens, geese,a couple mallards, and a friend just gave me some rabbits and young quail.
I havent studied on...
I have had smaller dogs, and I love my new pyraneese puppy. Its hard to think of her as the puppy when she is the largest animal I have. Compared to other dogs I noticed right away this little puppy had a different build, big muscles, and stance not of a typical 8 week old puppy. She is 5...
My geese and chickens were accidentally fed goat pellets rather than layer pellets. The pellets were a bit bigger, but it didnt affect them. The pyraneese puppy eats goat pellets, layer pellets, alfalfa hay, eukanuba dog food, but wont touch the dog food my other dogs prefer.
I was wondering...
The bottle baby goats hang out with the puppy every time I feed them, they get along just fine. Next month, momma goats kids will be weaned and will be in the pen with the bottle babies. Then they will be with the puppy regularly too. I think I will do slow introductions with momma after the...