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Help. I've been raising goats for years and have no idea what's going on here. We live in the pacific northwest and even for here it's been very wet, also we have had major boom in the rat population. So I noticed many of my kids this year have sores? Bites ? On their necks. Never seen...

I need some advice. I've been raising goats for years now and never had a bottle kid so not sure what to do. . I had a young doe e scape her pen and end up in my breeding pen. She got pregnant. Birth went good. I checked multiple times a day the first few days that there was milk and the kid...

Hi all, So here in BC between the wildfires and flooding( yep, been through both and almost ready to give up on homesteading but trying to push through) we didn't breed our ewes at the usual time. I don't want to miss out on lambs this year. Is this too late to breed them, are they still in the...

So we have been living on 5 acres(way to small for our needs). We got a 40 acre property with 2 barns(only have 1 now) and a cabin. We have to be out of this place by August.. The week we were supposed to start moving up there the largest wildfire in BC hit the area. We prayed and we were...

Good morning all, So this is the first time for me,dealing with a prolapse. Ewes fist lambing, had a single ram lamb, she Lambed around midnight and prolapsed in the morning. We put it all back in(after cleaning it ect). She pushed it out right away. We put it back, this time with a ewespoon...

Oh brother, I feel so done with sheep this year. A neighbor brought me a ewe lamb that they are at the end of their rope with and didn't want to pay a vet. I really didn't want any more problems but I felt so bad for the little thing. So according to them she did get colostrum and milk for a...

Ok, dumb question. I live in communist Canada where you can't get any damn thing over the counter have to go to the vet for everything. I was somehow able to get terramycin eye ointment for my dogs eye infection. Now when I'm reading online about treatments for sick livestock I hear about...

So I brought home 2 18 month old ewes Sunday night. It was a several hour drive for them. For the last t couple days I've been feeding them hay and some textured sheep feed. They seem to kind of eat the hay but won't touch the grain. I know it's been traumatizing for them so I didn't expect...

Good morning, So there is a sheep farmer near us which is where we got our first lamb(bottle lamb) 3 years ago. We got one last year as well. This year we thought we would keep the tradition . When we went to pick up the what I thought would be a bottle lamb last night, the farmer said she was...

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this but since I've been raising goats and sheep I've started off with a small breeding group and while occasionally switching out the males just let them grow their flocks at their own pace. I've never added ewes or lambs(or does or kids). Anyway I've...

This is only my second year with sheep so I don't have much experience. Yesterday my ewe gave birth to a ram lamb(second year lambing). It was sometime early in the morning it looks like . I came out around 7am to feed the sheep and he was already born. Still pretty wet so I'm assuming not a lot...

Looking for h lpcand comfort while waiting for the emergency vet. Went to the barn this morning to milk the goats and my bottle kid(born April 30) who is penned with 2 other kids was just laying there. When she saw me she started crying in pain and wouldn't get up. I milked the does as quick as...

I have a quick question. This is my first year completely separating the kids from mom's for milk. They have all been apart for over a month. If I were to put them out on the same pasture to graze would the kids still go to their moms for milk??

Hi all, I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this but I'd like some opinions. This year we had a bottle lamb, which I was half expecting. We had a long cold Spring and she was struggling so we brought her into the house( could add heat in the old barn, no electricity or running...

Hi all, My husband and I were talking about worse case scenarios with all this covid shutdown nonsense. Not being able to get the proper supplies for animals ect. Since goats need copper and my husband makes collodial silver for the family what about making collodial copper and putting it in...

Hi all. I have a question I want to put out. A big section of our property by the barn is unfenced. There is a lot of pasture opportunity. So we have a kind of strange property , a lot of forest. So the section I want to make pasture for my sheep is on 3 sides surrounded by about 40 foot almost...

I've never had to bottle feed a goat kid and they seem to be a lot hardier than lambs but I'm asking for both species. I know bottle lambs can get bloat pretty easily is that due to the bottle or the milk? If I were to bottle feed a lamb or goat raw milk milked from the mother( or other...

Hi. I'm new here. Anyhow I've been raising goats for a few years now, I my 3rd year kidding. Goats always seem to be relatively easy to care for and kidding goes easy, I sometimes have to help but it's a quick process. So to the sheep, this is my first year with sheep which I was hesitant...