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

[Cynthia12]

I love my goats, and while I understand the breeding means sometimes having to sell things, when events like this happen it makes me think about ever selling a goat again.
I sold a beautiful doe soon after she had quads and was milking over a gallon and a half a day in mid April. the following picture is what she looked like when I sold her followed by what she looked like when they returned her to me Monday night.
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I was horrified. I'm so glad I contacted them about getting her back because her doeling was so fantastic bred to my special buck. I can't imagine what it would have happened to her.

. This..makes..me...soooo........

. Glad you got her back, and I'm guessing she's super happy to be back! Thank goodness!

 

[Cynthia12]

Wow, goat care ..very interesting. Sounds like a busy, and expensive ...hobby?

 

[Pensmaster]

Aww..I miss this. Are those speckled white ones SBEL'S?

Two types in there. White Cornish and Bielefelders. Bielefelders are easy to spot they almost form a line in the center. There’s one mutt in there the black one that’s barely visible.
The White Cornish are very cute when they hatch. Confusing but cute. Eventually all that color molts out.

 

[daxigait]

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@campingshaws

I mix half this package of powder that I get from valley vet and though it takes a script which is easy to get for your chickens and I just use it for my goats. half a package to a gallon of water a tablespoon to a gallon of milk for as long as you are feeding milk is it great cocci preventative dose.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

definitely. I feed a very limited amount of alfalfa unless they're in milk and they're in milk and the kids are on the ground I really push it up. in all but the last month of gestation during the winter time they get a limited amount balance with a grass hay they'd rather not have. too bad though only a certain amount per day. then they can go work on the round bales or eat the grass hay in the feeders.
I am sorry you lost her.

baking soda is something I offer free choice only to does.
She is anemic/pale, and they say they treated her for worms on the 15th with prohibit so I didn't want to give it again as it is usually my wormer of last resort so I gave her Ivermectin unknowing for sure what they gave her. I will then monitor with fecals and see where I need to go. for now she's getting red cell,p and vitamin B12 complex, repl., free choice minerals grass hay alfalfa a limited amount of grain and electrolyte water. plus she got her dose of antibiotics.

I also offer baking soda to all does and bucks. Does dont touch much but bucks do. They tend to be hogs too. You have it covered for her, it will be a slow process to get her back. Anemia sucks and it's so much worse in a goat.

Another thing that she may benefit from is some zinc sulfate drenches daily. ( also watch herd if feeding feeding alfalfa, as it can block zinc absorption.) Pandora was really thin this spring and her coat qas horrible. Bad hay throughout winter shortages. I treated her drenches of zinc sulfate (1000mg daily x2 weeks) I bought human tablets crushed and added to molasses water for drenching. Anyways, I couldn't believe the same day she was eating like mad and showing she felt better! Within 2 weeks she was shiny and in 3 to 4 she was filled in again. At that point I gave all the older a weeks treatment and wow!

Barber poles have been hitting hard last fall to now. Lotta people in groups lost goats because they dont have a protocol for deworming. By the time they show signs of it it's so hard to being them back unless u know how to help asap. Campins doe is anemic and was pale as pale. She got her well enough to kid and carry on. She did a great job with her! Although she didnt create the mess of health she got her at auction. So she knows now what to look for! Safeguard and ivermectin alternate. The prohibit is needed a follow up I think 10 days? Do u have a scope to look at poo? U should get one. U would enjoy scoping poo!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Hi, I'm still around! Super busy because it's fair time around here, and even though I didn't enter anything this year, life still seems to revolve around the various county fairs for a few weeks.

My eggs didn't show up--hopefully tomorrow but it's going to be another busy day.

I love reading all this goat and soap talk. Two of my lifelong interests! I don't know when I'll get a chance to get back into that myself, but I fully intend to someday. For now, the goats we have just keep the mowing down...plus my husband eats them.

I so hope they come today!!! Kit!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Is the almond 1st ur trying?

 

[daxigait]

Wow, goat care ..very interesting. Sounds like a busy, and expensive ...hobby?

between Miley my sick box the kids have got pneumonia and some other things I have spent a week's wages this month just on vet stuff and meds. that does not include the obscene bill for hay this year. I hope we get some better weather between the drought last year and all the rains this year so I can get hey so there's a market. otherwise I'm going to have to get out. i have she kept my numbers by 1/3 to 1/2 by this time next year noway around that I want more of a life, and less expenditures. I knew it would take an investment up front, but by next spring I can start calling down to the ones that are headed that direction I want to go. I am going to just have to close my eyes if I wear the babies and others go because it's only so much I can do.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Di-Methox Sulfadimethoxine Soluble Powder For Animals
by AgriLabs
1 review
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@campingshaws

I mix half this package of powder that I get from valley vet and though it takes a script which is easy to get for your chickens and I just use it for my goats. half a package to a gallon of water a tablespoon to a gallon of milk for as long as you are feeding milk is it great cocci preventative dose.

Im.pretty sure u can get no rx online jeffers.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Two types in there. White Cornish and Bielefelders. Bielefelders are easy to spot they almost form a line in the center. There’s one mutt in there the black one that’s barely visible.
The White Cornish are very cute when they hatch. Confusing but cute. Eventually all that color molts out.

Mom and dad are letting the neighbors use their coop for meaties... I said to them when they told me as chicks, are u freaking nuts!! Lol Now they are complaining how they are gross and.smell hahahah. Daughter never knows anything