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

[Sally Sunshine]

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.

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.

Sounds like we both had it tough with goats, they aren't as touchy as chickens but dang they can be walking medicine chests! I've got a full cabinet full of meds etc for goats and pups!! Chickens too

Draxxin is the wonder drug for pneumonia, I wont mess with vet giving anything else now that I seen it work. Young kids sometimes only need one injection as it's long lasting and then a few days later maybe one more. I've never needed the one more. In the end it is an expensive drug, but add up a godzillion other costs from changing meda that dont work and extra vet visits etc... knock it down from the get go.

 

[daxigait]

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!

barber pole has indeed been vicious I even had two cases in December???
I had blood drawn on Miley last night along with two of my butt to check for anaplasmosis no. The box because I've treated them a couple of times and I'm not having success and they have continued anemia.
I do have a scope that I am learning to use. as to the 10-day deworming that's why I went ahead and usex my regular wormer and we'll check in 10 days. I do not like to use prohibite unl e
iis in dire case because it is my last resort. she is normally a very resistant go so this is weird.
I have started putting the zinc additive in their feed to help us eat. I will try that treatment thanks for the information.

 

[daxigait]

Sounds like we both had it tough with goats, they aren't as touchy as chickens but dang they can be walking medicine chests! I've got a full cabinet full of meds etc for goats and pups!! Chickens too

Draxxin is the wonder drug for pneumonia, I wont mess with vet giving anything else now that I seen it work. Young kids sometimes only need one injection as it's long lasting and then a few days later maybe one more. I've never needed the one more. In the end it is an expensive drug, but add up a godzillion other costs from changing meda that dont work and extra vet visits etc... knock it down from the get go.

I have heard good things about the draxxin. I just had both succeed and la300 on hand so I gave part 1 drug and park the other and we'll see if I need to flip flop it or if both work with what I'm dealing with. I wasn't going to take any chances because we're supposed to get another 5 to 7 inch of rain over the next couple of days.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

barber pole has indeed been vicious I even had two cases in December???
I had blood drawn on Miley last night along with two of my butt to check for anaplasmosis no. The box because I've treated them a couple of times and I'm not having success and they have continued anemia.
I do have a scope that I am learning to use. as to the 10-day deworming that's why I went ahead and usex my regular wormer and we'll check in 10 days. I do not like to use prohibite unl e
iis in dire case because it is my last resort. she is normally a very resistant go so this is weird.
I have started putting the zinc additive in their feed to help us eat. I will try that treatment thanks for the information.

Yes odd. Ivermectin doesnt get barber pole does it? Fenben I believe does.


Ohhhh just for u to know.... a trick I use for cocci or runs for both goats and pups is to first give.a dose of safeguard aka fenbendazole for those reading this... it stops the runs and give time for treatment with sulmet or whatever sulfa on hand. My 85 year old puppy mentor showed me that 6 years ago. Works like a charm!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I'm sitting at the surgy center, husband is.getting colonoscopies today. Ugh.i hate waiting and sitting. Its killin me.

Lord knows he sat for.me.many many times i.should suck it up and shut up. But ughhhhh lol

 

[daxigait]

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Yes odd. Ivermectin doesnt get barber pole does it? Fenben I believe does.


Ohhhh just for u to know.... a trick I use for cocci or runs for both goats and pups is to first give.a dose of safeguard aka fenbendazole for those reading this... it stops the runs and give time for treatment with sulmet or whatever sulfa on hand. My 85 year old puppy mentor showed me that 6 years ago. Works like a charm!

the ivermectin will get barber pole if you don't have resistance yet. so far I have very few cases were the ivermectin has not worked. the only time I have had to resort to prohibit is when I caught it late and they needed power hit quick

 

[daxigait]

I'm sitting at the surgy center, husband is.getting colonoscopies today. Ugh.i hate waiting and sitting. Its killin me.

Lord knows he sat for.me.many many times i.should suck it up and shut up. But ughhhhh lol

at least you have someone that will sit for you and that you can sit for. Though I have to admit the doctor's lounges are the pits

 

[daxigait]

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

Jeffers doesn't carry this particular powder package. valley vet does and it's only by script. You can buy the liquid stuff for treatment either place without a prescription. this I mixand add daily as a preventative and since I started doing it like my mentor suggested I have had very few cases. in fact this year the only cases I had her when I started to wean and they stressed. then I treated with the liquid for a couple of days and they were good.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Jeffers doesn't carry this particular powder package. valley vet does and it's only by script. You can buy the liquid stuff for treatment either place without a prescription.
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I am on my last gallon of it. I bought the liquid before the rx crap. Y can we get it injectable and not powder or sol liquid? Weird. I will ask vet for rx when I need one. In another year lol. I do have injectable too, that can be used on goats via injection Yes?

 

[daxigait]

well, I have a few new chicks and we'll see you with another 5 to 7 in of ring plan if the chickens can be smart enough not to drown these. the last bunch the hens took them down and out in the run and we got 5 inches of rain in an afternoon and they all drowned. the really sad part was that group was my Rhode Island reds that hatch those. they aren't laying very many any more much less hatching very many.