Keren
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Toby L.":205yrj8r said:You kind of wonder how many times a guy can get kicked in the balls before he finally goes down, I guess I can take a few more licks.
Well, if it helps any, this is the number of times I've been kicked (though I dont have balls ...)
- try to get into the top end goat genetics, bought a $2K bred doe, she had two buck kids, one died, one survived, the doe died 2 mths later
- bought a bottle doe kid, again top end genetics, $1K, she died of some freak virus at 2 wks old
- bought another $2K bred doe, she prolapsed numerous times, racked up a huge vet bill then she had one dead buck, one dead doe and one live buck
- needed a caesarian on one of my other does
- somewhere in amongst that, I bought a buck who turned out infertile
- bought a doe ready to breed, well she's infertile
- found out one of my does I bought as a bottle baby and raised to joining age was also infertile
- and then one of my doe kids ruptured her eyeball
- oh, plus the best doe kid I had born in 08 got bit by a red back spider then got heatstroke.
I'm still standing, just ;-)
FWIW, I reckon you did a great job on the calf. And although I might be a little late here, two things:
- I give brandy to warm them up - 5ml for lambs and kids that are like 3 to 5 kg, so I'm not sure on how much for a calf?
- also, I like to keep injectable glucose on hand - it goes under the skin - and is perfect for any time when an animal is down or just sick, and needing extra energy. I've done it with sick bottle babies before.