INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[BantyChooks]

 

[Pensmaster]

X2, in spades

Shoot. Guess I gotta give up my root beer too. Pretty soon there'll be nothing left to eat or drink.

Morning Whites. BIL back from side job yet?

 

[BantyChooks]

Shoot. Guess I gotta give up my root beer too. Pretty soon there'll be nothing left to eat or drink.

Morning Whites. BIL back from side job yet?

Water?

 

[Pensmaster]

Water?

That's not allowed either. We are in a drought.

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I have a problem with any doctor who'd prescribe drugs w/o any symptoms...just my contorted way of thinking, maybe.

 

[daxigait]

@PensmasterGo broody

 

[DwayneNLiz]

see below

4 days older if that its a BCM and most of the others are serama and some also are 4 days old, there are two polish blackish brown heads in there and a serama at three plus weeks old that is frizzled in the back.

cuties, i want to see the polish x as they age

Yup.... I'm caught hook, line, and sinker on BYC/this thread- The only place on the internet where people are polite, tolerant, and know how to spell! Not leaving here anytime in the foreseeable future.

Ummm.... I'm more like the scapegoat that distracts him.

Don't know about "needed" either, but thanks.

are you sure about that?

 

[campingshaws]

I need to learn a lot more before I get to that point. Roxie HATES being handled, so the milk I got from her was full of hair. I also don't know what I'm doing, so we're both suffering. When I sell the second baby I'll have to milk her a little to relieve pressure while she dries up? That's what my neighbor said.

I have heard both leave them alone, and milk some. Just watch for mastitis.

@campingshawsI forgot the most important thing. According to my vet, who raises dairy goats, the critical thing just before you wean and as they dry up is NO GRAIN, no fancy hay just grass while you leave them to dry up.
I would pull that baby for half a day at a time if it is weaning age if you have somewhere safe to keep it.

The babies are almost 10 weeks, and she's close to weaning them if she hasn't already. I can't say the last time I saw them nurse. But I can pull the buckling easily and put him in the barn and put her out to pasture.

Thanks for the help! I saw there's a Storey's guide to goats just like for chickens, maybe I should add that to my list...

I lost my quote from whites, but I don't have a stand built right now. My neighbor helped me rig up a tabletop the day she showed me how to milk, but it was almost a three person job. When I get a nice table, things will absolutely go easier.

 

[BullChick]

 

[kajira]

Morning and good luck with that

Mine have never let me do that.

Yeah, they didn't let me. My toddler spent the last hour + climbing on my head and hitting me with his sippy cup.