EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Wickedchicken6]

My tablet is small and my eyes are weak..
Here is my driver's license photo.. getting old man! I had a bad hair day in the pic. I should have it renewed.
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I think you've had a bad everything day. Just saying...

 

[kwhites634]

Not "P.T." It is 16" centred.

As long as the plate's not in contact with the ground, you're o.k.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Later alligators.

 

[kwhites634]

Are bucks that aggressive?? Wow. I always pulled my rams to have the girls on schedule...but I've never worried about them hurting the ewes/ewe lambs. There's courting and such involved...sort of like the cattle. She has to stand for him to try.
I didn't know that about bucks. Although I did have a really tall buck trying to pee on me when I was picking out our Suffolk ram. I got a lot of exercise that night.

Gotta watch 'em; they can be pretty randy.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

People here seem to go crazy about the little goats.

Little Bah Buh.. One day dumb butt left the back door open and I walked into the kitchen to see this little darling making herself at home..

 

[BullChick]

Ours are pygmy.. our average local price range is 90 to 150 clams. Bucks on the low end. We castrate all baby bucks.

Mine prefer a fresh dry hay bed to sleep.

Monitor bowel movements (you want berries, not clumps), weight loss and check for signs of anemia by pulling down their bottom eye lid and checking the color. It should be pink. If white, they have a low red blood cell count and it needs to be address asap.
WET GRASS SEASON is bad news for goats. We dewormed a lot during the summer this past unusually wet year. Annually vax's with us.
We have a mobile vet who taught us a great deal.

If your concrete is brush swept finished that is super duper. That is very course and will grind the hoofs nice. If it is smooth, the will be like humans walking on ice. My barn is smooth finish concrete, they have a hard time stablizing on it.
Some people dremel hoofs. We we have clipping shears and we file finish with a #2 bastard file.
If you stay on top of it. It takes only a couple minutes a hoof.

See? That sounds simple! Yes to the brush swept.

You really have to do all that for goats? I'm was thinking abouts goats...everyone's bad enablers here. I didn't realize they required that. I think sheep are my thing. Dh will be happy...I've been asking...

Sheep are easier than that?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Gotta watch 'em; they can be pretty randy.

Whites!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I think you've had a bad everything day. Just saying...

That was during winter. I look better with a tan, man.

 

[kwhites634]

Just unusual to skip a routine. Got to fill the blank some how. The blank today was we removed 30' of fencing/barb wire-hot wire to make way for the last Irma damaged tree to fall. It is super windy today. The crack is opening and closing. Today might be the day it falls.
DH and his faithful super cool assistant. Removed the Property line boarder fencing and posts to save the material. Any second that baby is coming down.
These pics are from yesterday. The crack is so much bigger today.
TIMBER!
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Why don't you help it along; make it come down when you want it to, in a controlled situation, not when it may hurt someone or something.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

See? That sounds simple! Yes to the brush swept.

Feed them on it. They will be most active and like greedy pigs if more than a couple. They run from feeder to feeder thinking someone else has something better. And will frequently come back to that spot to check food replenishment. DO NOT over feed. Bloat is a serious condition. Morn and eve is plenty. Roughage in between.