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Last night I would have bet the farm that Blackie needed another copper bolus. I keep meticulous records of everything done to my goats daily. Last night I looked and was confident that she could use another. So this evening after running waterline for cows and splitting winter fire wood, putting in my large smoker 3 Boston butts and picking up 3, 5 gallon buckets of pecans, when I went I feed this evening I gave her one in an oat peanut butter ball. Went on to feed mineral to cows and checked on my Boston butts and restoke my fire. When I got my bath tonight after putting on a slab of ribs for dinner, I pull out my phone to log Blackie’s update in my spreadsheets. I had given her copper bolus on 11/16/20 and now another on 11/21/20. I feel so bad about a flat out dumb thing, I mean maybe I don’t need someone or thing depending on me for their health. I don’t know what to do. What do I do? This is a very stupid mistake on my part. How I confused this i do not know.
 
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Which size bolus? How much does Blackie weigh?

If she is showing true deficiency signs like red fur or fish tail and it was just two 4-gram boluses then I really wouldn't worry. She'll be totally fine.
She is pregnant and her weight is about 75-80lbs maybe a little more. Her tail I have never got it to come to a point. It looks broke a lot of the time. Yes she has shown deficiencies with tail being fishtail and strip down her back. I really thought she needed the bolus but I did not realize that I had given one 5 days ago. I feed her some garlic cloves and the peanut butter and oat ball with the copper in it.
 
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Thanks guys, that did lift me up. I will send her picture and pic of her tail. She had twins last year and I think the same will be this year in December. I will try to make pics tomorrow.
 
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