Granny's gone and done it again

[cherrynberry]

Feeder specifically for babies. For swine, its like a hanging feeder put on the wall somewhere the adults can't access.

Its much easier for pigs. Just a wood plank going across the corner of a stall would do. It acts like a barrier for dodging too. The adult pigs are fat and can't jump over. Cheap and easy. Cap, what are you planning to do for a creep feeder?

 

[cherrynberry]

I have a bantam cochin hen sitting on eggs.
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What day are they on?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Timothy hay?

No, i couldn't find any. Lespidesa would be ideal. Mine is orchard grass.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Its much easier for pigs. Just a wood plank going across the corner of a stall would do. The adult pigs are fat and can't jump over. Cheap and easy. Cap, what are you planning to do for a creep feeder?

I may just put a piece of cattle panel up. Parents can't fit through, kids can.

 

[cherrynberry]

No, i couldn't find any. Lespidesa would be ideal. Mine is orchard grass.

Never heard of that before. I wonder if it can be grown here....

 

[CapricornFarm]

There's a little area near the barn i can block off. There are 2 rabbit cages that are empty, i need to move.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Never heard of that before. I wonder if it can be grown here....

Supposed to cut back worm infections some i think.

 

[microchick]

How did you lose your dog Becky?

She developed a rare parasitical infection called Pythiosis. It's an amoebic type parasite that can live in still water. All 5 of them had access to a 40 foot pond that was behind our barn. They all loved to play and splash in it so we didn't think anything of it and had never heard of pythiosis before.

She started vomiting, refusing all food and all she drank came back up. Vet thought she had gastritis and gave me meds. Next day she was worse and starting to dehydrate. Vet blew us off, gave us more nausea meds which she promptly threw back up. By Sunday she was worse yet and started passing bloody diarrhea. We paniced at that but the Vet's father, also a vet just said, well we could take her to Columbia and the Vet college there but they couldn't help her. We wound up rushing her to another vet nearby who said, she wouldn't survive the trip to Columbia and worked to stabilize her so Monday morning we could get her to Columbia and the Vet college hospital there.

They suspected she had swallowed something that was blocking her intestine but one test lead to another and the last thing they did was an MRI and that is when they found that there were colonies of this parasite in her that had blocked her bowel, invaded her stomach. She had peritonitis and there were these tumors all over her digestive tract that are caused by the parasite. No cure. No treatment. Most dogs are immune to them but for some reason our sweet Sidney wasn't. We had no choice but to have her put to sleep as by this point she was suffering.

Even if the local vet had taken things more seriously, she would have still died but as it was we lost a loving young cattle dog who suffered far longer than she should have and he lost clients with 11 animals.

I spread the word now not to let your dogs play in or drink out of water puddles or standing water. There are thing in them that you can't see that can potentially kill your dog.

 

[CapricornFarm]

She developed a rare parasitical infection called Pythiosis. It's an amoebic type parasite that can live in still water. All 5 of them had access to a 40 foot pond that was behind our barn. They all loved to play and splash in it so we didn't think anything of it and had never heard of pythiosis before.

She started vomiting, refusing all food and all she drank came back up. Vet thought she had gastritis and gave me meds. Next day she was worse and starting to dehydrate. Vet blew us off, gave us more nausea meds which she promptly threw back up. By Sunday she was worse yet and started passing bloody diarrhea. We paniced at that but the Vet's father, also a vet just said, well we could take her to Columbia and the Vet college there but they couldn't help her. We wound up rushing her to another vet nearby who said, she wouldn't survive the trip to Columbia and worked to stabilize her so Monday morning we could get her to Columbia and the Vet college hospital there.

They suspected she had swallowed something that was blocking her intestine but one test lead to another and the last thing they did was an MRI and that is when they found that there were colonies of this parasite in her that had blocked her bowel, invaded her stomach. She had peritonitis and there were these tumors all over her digestive tract that are caused by the parasite. No cure. No treatment. Most dogs are immune to them but for some reason our sweet Sidney wasn't. We had no choice but to have her put to sleep as by this point she was suffering.

Even if the local vet had taken things more seriously, she would have still died but as it was we lost a loving young cattle dog who suffered far longer than she should have and he lost clients with 11 animals.

I spread the word now not to let your dogs play in or drink out of water puddles or standing water. There are thing in them that you can't see that can potentially kill your dog.

Sorry that happened. But at least she had a good life with you while she lived.

 

[microchick]

Baby goats went out today!
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And you are going to part with the boys? Cap if we were closer I'd have me some pet wethers right about now!