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Hello Shell2 When to band goat kids is controversial, so sending my 2 cents worth by PM.
Thanks for those replies to my old thread. Those three kids grew up fine, but have now been deposited in various toilets around the village. They...
Thanks for those useful replies. I realise that from three photos it is impossible to give the definite proportions of the breeds which have gone...
I have a small herd of goats, either local or local x Boer crosses. We look after our goats fairly well, and are now beginning to have triplets...
Earlier I remarked that from outside North America I could not access the EasyKeeper website. Twelve hours later I managed to get through....
In Malawi, Africa, and using Firefox I cannot access that link http://www.easykeeper.net/ Seems someone in Oz also has a problem.
I have to use whatever I find in my tool shed for trimming hooves. I use: An old toothbrush for cleaning up the hoof. A 2" cutter, removed from...
Thanks for those replies. My internet connection is behaving itself today, so I did a google search on GV. The caution about its use on open...
Wikipedia says that "gentian (crystal) violet has antibacterial, antifungal, and anthelmintic properties". To treat wounds on my goats and dogs,...
OOPS! Silly me. I should have read the captions of the photos more carefully before posting. Sorry for that. Myself, I have never achieved the...
This simple villager is now confused about how to correctly trim a goat's hoof. He has been using http://goat-link.com/content/view/109/106/ for...
Thanks for those replies. The swelling is around most of the base of the affected teat. I had to get right down and close to the healthy teat...
The base of a teat on one of my goats is swollen, and I wonder if it is serious. The pictures show the problem teat, compared to the healthy...
Dreamchaser, the stench from the rumen was so bad that we did not spent a long time examining the contents. I wish now, for my own records, I had...
Thanks for those replies. The goats go out for browsing into unfenced areas a couple of times a day. There can be bits of polythene lying around,...
Today we found out why one of our goats has been foaming at the mouth. She had a wad of polythene in her rumen. The foaming started about 1½...
Getting back to the original question, when a kid is feeding from a pan (as opposed to sucking from a bottle), will the milk go to the rumen or to...
Mrs Liz: There is no other mother goat who can spare milk at present for these 3 kids. When we have had this sort of problem in the past, and had...
Thanks for those replies. The kids are now 8 days old. The mother is basically local, and was bred to a Boer male. Her kids were quite big at...
One of my goats has, unfortunately, given birth to 3 kids. It is unfortunate, because she does not produce enough milk to feed them all properly,...
