The Front Porch Swing

[TNBEARCHICK]

GFF sent me 4 month old birds and when they were 4 1/2 months old they were laying eggs!

 

[tdhenson86]

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So sorry to hear about all the losses!

 

[tdhenson86]

GFF sent me 4 month old birds and when they were 4 1/2 months old they were laying eggs!

WHAT??? Really???

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good Morning, Happy Chicken People!

 

[Caitlin_VT]

GFF sent me 4 month old birds and when they were 4 1/2 months old they were laying eggs!

Well, I hope mine do too, lol! That would be awesome!!

 

[sonew123]

morning

 

[pysankigirl]

Yesterday was a bad day.

We came home from work to find Sam (goat) dead. Just laying in the goat house on his side, dead. And he had been perfectly healthy! In fact I was thrilled with how healthy they were looking…not worried at all except for the heat, which wasn’t as bad this week. And the husband and I had already made plans to enclose part of the goat house and put in a cheap window unit for really bad days (because we are not real farmers and they are pets)

We took the other two goat’s temperatures (normal), called the vet and immediately took him for a Necropsy. Verdict was he was an extremely healthy goat who broke into the chicken house and ate too much chicken feed and went into “grain overload” which will cause goat polio encephalitis (thiamine deficiency, cant process it?) which will cause them to go into seizures, go blind and DIE. He had gotten into the chicken house yesterday.

I knew that chicken food was bad for goats, I just got it confused with the “no grain for wethers” thing where they get stopped up. I didn’t know that it could flat out kill them.

There is a saying that you learn more from Failure than you do from success. I guess I am learning the hard way.

 

[babymakes6]

Oh Laura, I am so sorry.

I would not have known that either. I will let Rachael know-she just got two fainting goat kids.

Good morning, everyone!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Yesterday was a bad day.

We came home from work to find Sam (goat) dead.  Just laying in the goat house on his side, dead.  And he had been perfectly healthy!  In fact I was thrilled with how healthy they were looking…not worried at all except for the heat, which wasn’t as bad this week.  And the husband and I had already made plans to enclose part of the goat house and put in a cheap window unit for really bad days (because we are not real farmers and they are pets)

 We took the other two goat’s temperatures (normal), called the vet and immediately took him for a Necropsy.  Verdict was he was an extremely healthy goat who broke into the chicken house and ate too much chicken feed and went into “grain overload” which will cause goat polio encephalitis (thiamine deficiency, cant process it?) which will cause them to go into seizures, go blind and DIE. He had gotten into the chicken house yesterday.

I knew that chicken food was bad for goats, I just got it confused with the “no grain for wethers” thing where they get stopped up.  I didn’t know that it could flat out kill them.

There is a saying that you learn more from Failure than you do from success.  I guess I am learning the hard way.

Laura, I'm soooo sorry! Hard learning curve, indeed.

 

[pysankigirl]

Tell her that if they do get into some grain...look for signs of dull-headedness or blindness. if she is at all worried, then give them a shot of B1 (thiamine) it will not hurt them and it may save ther lives. should probably have some on hand at all times. The dosage for a 75lb goat was 5cc of the 100 strength (there is evidently a 50 strength, too)