A hobby sheep farmer espouses on training her dogs and running her farm, giving herding lessons and raising ducks,chickens,sheep and calves.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
Goats are maybe not my thing
Ok now I definitely have a sick goat kid. One is doing great weighs 12lbs and the other is weak , not eating well appears cold and only weighs 8lbs. So I thought I will bottle feed it. I went to Tractor Supply and got kid milk replacer per my goat mentor. Of course the stuff I read on the internet in more than one place says " DO NOT USE MILK REPLACER ON KIDS" Too late I"m using it and of course said goat does not want to nurse out of a bottle. I had to force feed it but I got 8oz down it's skinny little throat. So I thought that would pick her up but it didn't so the mentor suggested BO-Se since that is what cured the lamb. Duh light dawns on something something. I go in the house and get the Bo-Se in a syringe and go outside. I get to the goat , catch it and got to give it a shot and realize the needle is not on the syringe. I apparently lost it somewhere from the house to the barn. Back to the house to get another one. Fortunately I found the box of needles and syringes that I boutht in Al and could not find the other day so I am all set to shoot up everything in sight. so back out and I gave the poor thing 1 cc which is what the lamb was supposed to get. It might just have killed the kid. It might too much. Time will tell. Now I am going back out to force feed some more milk. This is not fun.
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