Goats!!!

[teaton]

So far does this look allright for a goats room?

 

[cassie]

Looks OK to me. I'd get a different hay feeder though. You can find hay feeders for calves that hang on the wall and cut down waste. Look in any livestock supply catalog.

 

[waddles99]

For goats

So far does this look allright for a goats room?

For goats, as long as they have a nice dry spot to get out of the weather and wind, its fine! It doesn't even have to be insulated. Your enclosure looks great for goats, plenty of room and even stuff to play on. I personally see nothing wrong with the hay feeder, but I'm certainly not as experienced as Cassie is.

 

[iloveduckies]

Help!!
One of my goats has mastitis

 

[cassie]

Help!!
One of my goats has mastitis

What are the symptoms? How sick is she? Is her udder hot or cold? Here are some general suggestions for treating mastitis. Ideally, you should take a sterile milk sample before you treat her and have it cultured so if the treatment you use initially doesn't work you can get one that does. Get a mastitis tube and infuse it into the udder. Use the whole thing. You can find mastitis treatments for cows at the feed store or livestock supply. Put her on some injectable systemic antibiotic. You need to start treatment at once. Your vet can advise you. At the end of her lactation when you dry her off, infuse her with a dry cow treatment. The udder heals and renews itself during the dry period. The dry cow treatment will help prevent a recurrence of the infection when she freshens again.

 

[iloveduckies]

Her udder is warm and kind of stiff we just noticed it because her milk started coming out in chunks...

 

[cassie]

I hope you have treated her. How is she doing now?

 

[iloveduckies]

We have...
She is doing much better

 

[minichicks05]

We have...
She is doing much better

I'm glad

 

[teaton]

My goats were out today and ran right up to our yews and ate a few branch fulls, we got them away as soon as we could but i know they ate some, they seem allright for now but ive read its going to kill them and it could take up to 3 days to do so, is there anything i can do???