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    Any Ideas on How To Id without bands/zip ties?

    Thanks for the replies! Food coloring and markers sound good but if they come off in a matter of days that won't work, we get 100 babies in and it takes about 2 weeks to work through the stock. I can't commit the time to re-mark them every few days. I only stock about 4 breeds at any one given...
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    Any Ideas on How To Id without bands/zip ties?

    Hi guys I manage the chicken portion of our feed store and have had great sucess in selling and educationg my backyard customers on the pleasures of raising baby chicks. Normally I work everyday but this term in school has me off on a very busy weekend day...Saturdays. So my delema is having my...
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    What could be wrong with this ewe?

    Thanks for all the replys, I'll check out the website. Is it ok to give her hay all the time, like she's grazing? Thats how we feed our horses so I assumed that since sheep are natural grazers that free choice bermuda would be ideal with a little bit of alfalfa in the evening. Thanks again!
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    Great Laying Breeds?

    Does anyone know much about Welsummers? I have had the Minorcas and Leghorns in the past but not the Anconas, I will look into those. I have had black sexlinks but not red sexlinks, and of course our most requested are the Rhodies they are very popular here for whatever reason.
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    What size leg band?

    Getting in baby chicks for our feed store this fall and would like to leg band them so I can take any back that don't find the perfect home. However I went to look into getting bands and they come in all sizes, what is the appropriate size for baby chicks, standard layers and sometimes assorted...
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    Great Laying Breeds?

    Please help me with your suggestions of great laying breeds to bring into my feed store for the customers looking for a good layer that is heat tolerant. Your suggestions would help a lot with what to order this fall. Thanks!
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    easter egger?

    I work at a feed store and we order all our baby chicks from ideal, we get about 10 white/blondes on every order of 50. I took a few home to see how they grow up and mature and I was amzed at how lovley they are. You can also tell by their grey/greenish legs as oppossed to more yellow/orange of...
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    What could be wrong with this ewe?

    I looked into the Moxi dewormer and found it too be to risky for my lil' gal at this point. I will put a call into a couple people I know that have sheep but really there's not a lot of sheep breeders her in Tucson, most of them are raising hair sheep because they don't get the heavy wool. Is...
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    What could be wrong with this ewe?

    Ok great thanks, I will worm her with Moxidectin and see if that helps her. I know with horses they take a long time to gain their weight back, is it the same with sheep? Also to shear her will I have to purchase an expensive clipper or is there another method? Thanks a ton! This is so helpful.
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    What could be wrong with this ewe?

    Thanks for all the replies, I will try to get better pictures of her soon. She's still thin over her topline but she also has been nursing two lambs and only been on good food for two months now. She gets bermuda hay and alfalfa in her pen and every evening she gets to run the property and "free...
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    What could be wrong with this ewe?

    **I posted this on Back Year Herds but didn't get much help, I had so much great help with my pot bellied pig issues here I thought I would try my other problems here as well, hope you dont mind** I rescued a hair muttish type ewe and her two doelings begining of June. The babies were two days...
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    EMERGENCY...Orphaned Baby Piglets!!!

    Thanks so much for all the support but all three babies passed away. The black and white one yesterday and the two pinkies in the middle of the night, they just were too weak to fight anymore. Poor precious babies. Thanks again for all the support, the good thing about this is that Poptart (tha...
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    EMERGENCY...Orphaned Baby Piglets!!!

    Bad News:( Strudel passed on about an hour ago, he just didnt have it in him to keep up the fight. Biscuit the little girl looks worse, not sure if she will pull through and Brusier the one thats all beat up took his last meal like a champ. However I'm trying to be optimistic but they are so...
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    EMERGENCY...Orphaned Baby Piglets!!!

    Ok I got a little bit of milk replacer into them, they are so weak. They have had about two ounces each so far. After getting them warm and comfty they seemed a little better, one of the males is pretty bruised up and is missing half of his tail:( Poor little fellow, he is the weakest but he...
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    EMERGENCY...Orphaned Baby Piglets!!!

    Ok I have a call into a friend that is bringing me some Unimilk milk replacer, its a multi specirs milk replacer but labeled fro piglets too. I will use a syringe for now, how much does a baby pig eat? Thanks for all the help!
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