What did you do in the garden today?

[Molpet]

It's all good, until it isn't.
UGH What a morning.
I've got an alpaca, my favorite one - OC, down with what is probably meningeal deer worm. OMG no warning, no notice, nothing weird until yesterday. And OC there are no large animal vets here.
Guy couple miles down the road has a massive herd of high end llamas and I, out of desperation, called him.
He says it's super common and is shocked that I cannot just call up a vet, like he does and get the NSAID for livestock.
I have called and traveled to 8 vets this morning. I have taken a sample with me to have it tested and turn around is 2-3 days. Which he could be dead by then, AND OH BTW they don't treat alpacas anyway, but we can send away the poo and test it.
OMG.
I swear I'm going to loose my mind.
He wouldn't, or maybe couldn't, even get up this morning, partially the hill's fault. DH said he had trouble getting down to lay down yesterday, but he was up and grazing last night, no problem.
I rolled him over at lunch so he could at least sit up, and now it looks like he has the shivers and sometimes shakes his head.
The ONE vet, 30 miles away, who MIGHT be able to do ANYTHING, can't until she sees him and I'm a listed client and she can't come until the 23rd. OMG
This all sounds so fricken screwed up to me.

So sorry your going through this.

 

[Ponypoor]

It's all good, until it isn't.
UGH What a morning.
I've got an alpaca, my favorite one - OC, down with what is probably meningeal deer worm. OMG no warning, no notice, nothing weird until yesterday. And OC there are no large animal vets here.
Guy couple miles down the road has a massive herd of high end llamas and I, out of desperation, called him.
He says it's super common and is shocked that I cannot just call up a vet, like he does and get the NSAID for livestock.
I have called and traveled to 8 vets this morning. I have taken a sample with me to have it tested and turn around is 2-3 days. Which he could be dead by then, AND OH BTW they don't treat alpacas anyway, but we can send away the poo and test it.
OMG.
I swear I'm going to loose my mind.
He wouldn't, or maybe couldn't, even get up this morning, partially the hill's fault. DH said he had trouble getting down to lay down yesterday, but he was up and grazing last night, no problem.
I rolled him over at lunch so he could at least sit up, and now it looks like he has the shivers and sometimes shakes his head.
The ONE vet, 30 miles away, who MIGHT be able to do ANYTHING, can't until she sees him and I'm a listed client and she can't come until the 23rd. OMG
This all sounds so fricken screwed up to me.

Sorry to hear about your Alpaca. Sure hope you can get someone to see him.

 

[akroberts1085]

@WthrLady, so sorry to hear about your alpaca. I agree with you about how much crap that is with finding a vet that can help you.

 

[Ponypoor]

@WthrLady, so sorry to hear about your alpaca. I agree with you about how much crap that is with finding a vet that can help you.

I am so thankful my Horse Vet who is semi-retired still comes and sees my mares, and even more thankful that he can help with the chooks as much as he can. He isn't licensed for treating poultry, but can give some advice when I ask for it. I am free with the eggs to him and his wife for all his help. And it is super nice he is only 4km up the road Well when he is home and not travelling for work at the tracks, with race horses.

Edit: I do have a small animal Vet who is licensed to treat poultry and to do Gov't inspections also - very handy - but very very eggspensive!

 

[jerryse]

Seed racks were out today at Menard's. I did not browse.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I just posted this in another one of these Garden threads so not sure if I should be cross posting or not but where I live is very rural and very not diverse so a lot of the foods and ingredients that I enjoy eating are hard to find around here. The mung bean sprouts in the grocery stores around here are always yellow old and slimy so I decided to try growing my own once I realized I can just do it in a colander basket on my kitchen counter in just 5 days here they are on day three! Let me know if you have any questions it's surprisingly easy and love to be able to grow something in New England Winter!! Happy to share my setup!

I grow sprouts for my chickens. Hahaha. Your Mung bean sprouts look great!

 

[Echelontheory101]

I grow sprouts for my chickens. Hahaha. Your Mung bean sprouts look great!

Thank you! I absolutely grew way too many and they're a little yellow because it was my first time so I kept lifting back the Burlap to peek at them excitedly and absolutely exposed them to too much light during sprouting LOL

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Thank you! I absolutely grew way too many and they're a little yellow because it was my first time so I kept lifting back the Burlap to peek at them excitedly and absolutely exposed them to too much light during sprouting LOL

Your girls would happily help by eating the ones you can't. Good reminder for me to get my sprouting jar out and do some. I have some barley I am going to sprout for them.

 

[Molpet]

Seed racks were out today at Menard's. I did not browse.

Someone on FB local group had a warning they seen short day onion seeds, instead of long day, for sale there.
Not surprising that stuff for sale that doesn't do well in Illinois

 

[dirkandlorie]

Your girls would happily help by eating the ones you can't. Good reminder for me to get my sprouting jar out and do some. I have some barley I am going to sprout for them.

I do wheat berries as sprouts for the chickens, and for the cats, they love the greens.