Does early castration cause urinary calculi?
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2023
- People worry about castrating bucklings too early because of the fear of urinary calculi, which can cause death in goats. Although early castration has been linked to a greater risk of a stone causing death, castration has nothing to do with the formation of stones.
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I don't want to use medicated feed, and would prefer to not feed my buck anything. However, bucket training really makes my life so much easier. I use the same container every time and offer just a small handful in the container, enough to make some noise.
You can use timothy hay pellets, which are 100% timothy grass hay. First, mix it with the grain then gradually decrease the grain until it's 100% timothy hay pellets. My bucks gobble up hay pellets as happily as they would grain when we are trimming hooves or whatever.
Hey I have a baby buck that is 3 months old, and he has some diarrhea it’s been here for 3 days I checked his temperature and it was 101.4 and the next day I checked again and it was 99.1 so I gave him some home made electrolytes and some probios, and the temp went back to 101. 9. However I went outside today and he still has diarrhea and I’m not sure what it could be.
The most common cause of diarrhea in a kid from 3 weeks to 5 months is coccidiosis, so typically you treat for that using Corid, which is still available over the counter in farm supply stores and online. Follow the dosage for TREATMENT on the bottle, or if you're comfortable with math, you don't have to dilute it as much as the label says. Use the dosage on the bottle for DRENCH 5-day treatment. How much does he weigh, and what breed is he?
@@DeborahNiemann He is a nigerian dwarf and he weighs about 30 pounds, maybe a little more.
@@cutiecookie3963 if you have weighed him and know, that is what he weighs, that is a really excellent weight for a Nigerian dwarf that age so if you treat him for coccidiosis, it should clear up within a couple days. Be sure to finish the whole five day treatment. If the diarrhea hasn’t cleared up by three days, it would be a good idea to take a fecal to the vet and see if it is a bacterial infection or some thing else.
@@DeborahNiemann does it matter if I use the powdered corid or the bottled liquid?
@@cutiecookie3963 They both work the same. I personally find it easier to work with the liquid. You need an accurate digital scale to weigh out the powder to mix it up when making enough solution to treat a single animal with a drench.