As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
This is some advice on livestock purchases as I have rescued animals and purchased pigs in a poke in having them die, so the following for budding agrarians might help things along.
My first advice is to visit a vet who treats livestock as an occupation and not as a sideline. There are things that all animals need in vaccinations, and the first things they need are........
A vaccination for shipping fever which is pneumonia
A vaccination for lice, grubs etc....
They should be able to give you this in a syringe and it should not cost you more than 30 bucks total per animal, as Ivomec for lice and grubs is cheap enough and a preventative Long Penicillin is not that expensive.
There are others like Nuflor for antibiotics which are very expensive in being long term treatments of one or two shots.
Belle for example was really stressed and dehydrated, had the diarrhea, draining eyes, cough, nasal discharge, constipated and looked like hell. The lesbian calf traders I rescued her from were online and I deduced they get calves from those monster corporate dairies which have Mexican milkers abusing cows and it is a hell hole for livestock, and then comes along the lesbians who flip the calves for profit.
Yes that all catches up with them, as people get wise and these animal abusers eventually run out of people to con, but in the meantime, there are more of these horse traders selling dead horses to Tom Cruise in Irish Dreams far and away.
You have to be aware too of sleeper things in animals. I will not get into hogs, but they require a host of vaccinations and YOU HAVE TO GET THEM, as pigs give humans diseases which you can catch. Cattle like Belle on the other hand had a sister who manifested something which she did not pick up for here after a few weeks in a new isolation pen. Yes isolate your new purchases for a month at least as you do not want them spreading some disease to you or your animals.
What manifested was a spore called ringworm. I know this did not come from here, as the calf was on new ground, and new pens where only goats or chickens had been. There was no ringworm, and yet it appeared. The poor little calf was exposed to it, and in the run down condition she was in, it manifested like any child disease does in children.
There is no real remedy for it except time. Mom tells me she put on lard and alum on my brother and sister who are not livestock, when they contracted ringworm and it did remedy it quickly, so that is what is the next step in this process.
There are few honest people left in this world and all they are interested in is quick money. I never dreamed a neighbor of ours would dump 3 expensive goats on us who were sick, but they were filled with grubs and worms, and two died which was extremely hurtful to us. The thing is we treat now in dual to triple doses of Ivomec twice a year in the spring and autumn, and there is no more vermin problems with these goats. Knock the hell out of things, feed them good rations, and keep things sheltered and animals rebound quickly. The point is though not to get stuck with the refuse in the first place.
That is difficult though as just like you get the shits going to Mexico, animals get sick with new bacteria in your neck of the woods. It does not matter what it is, there is a change in location and stress and animals get problems. Always remember you are buying a creature that someone else does not want.......a cull from their herd or some other herd, and the best animals are still in that herd.
You can with time and love, nurse things over the shock of things, and you will end up with a good animal, and your babies from them will be the best of livestock which you will then be keeping as you dump your culls on other people to get rid of them.
I unfortunately have two goatikins now who are going to be nothing for all their days, but I will not kill them nor dump them as they are pets. They got life from my breeding projects and I owe them for that to not be abused, just like Trig Palin is not drown in the river or sold to the local pedophile.
I just do not have the heart to eat goats........am hoping when I get ugly sheep or I tell myself they are ugly and castrated highland beef steers that the coup de grace will be easier to administer as I need to eat too.
Belle also shied away from us when she came like a deer in the woods. That is probably from the big welts she had on her, which are from a vaccination by a dumb ass lesbians who did not know how to give a shot proper to a calf who was suffering from pneumonia.
We never had on this place in hundreds of cattle a year taken care of, had lumps from vaccinations on them. I gave this calf three shots and there is not a trace of what I did to her. All you have to do is just lift the skin on the neck or behind the shoulder, and jab the needle in and slowly give the shot from a clean syringe. They might not like it for awhile as some vaccines now burn upon injection, but you will not have lumps that look like abscesses on the animals.
The other calf has a lump too.......and Belle has this bare spot on her jaw bone which is from stress and is an abscess which did not form as we were caring for her.
I do not want to scare people off from buying things, but to be aware that Craigslist and Lezbo a Go Go are out there abusing animals and want you to pay for it.
Belle walks up to us now, she moo's at us, she loves TL rubbing her and working on her ears that almost froze off (Yes lost the tips of the ears, but that will grow over with hair.). She is a very well behaved calf in not chewing on things wooden nor pulling table cloths off the table.
Belle is a good experience and she will be here past Jesus coming back. She will have babies and be used a lawnmower probably in lawn locations, as she is trained and will be halter broke as well as hand milked. These Jersey's are completely different from other breeds of cattle like Holstein or Angus. They are more like dogs as Belle could care less about anything in the world from vacuum cleaners to dishes dropped. The only thing she reacted to was when TL blew the hair dryer at her, and all she did then was frown and move off.
Basically a Belle day is about 7 AM she moo's at me as my alarm clock as she rubs her grain pail across the floor asking to be fed. I get up, feed her, clean poop up with a paper towel, and then get her water.
I do other chores and bring in a small arm of hay.
TL usually is attacked at breakfast and supper to rub Belle, but the rest of the day is Belle just loafing, chewing cud, and eating more hay, until she beds down at night, and then gets up a few times during the night to eat hay or drink water.
She moo's at 3 PM for her afternoon cup of grain too. (Not more than that as you want those stools firm and not plastering everything with poop.)
She loves licking salt too in a little piece of white salt block which is in her feed pail.
Is pretty simple money making really. She does all the work and babysitting. She is a good girl and a great milk investment as I love cream, and she will be producing that in another year and a half.
That will take Artificial Insemination or we might get a Jersey bull calf to raise to do the job, but know dairy bulls get murderous on people about age 2 in most cases and is why dairies use frozen sperm. Do not use the age 2 as an absolute with anything, it is just sort of a way mark event. I had a Charloise bull go nuts at age 4....some go nuts like a Hereford I had at about a year and a half. (The last two are beef cattle breeds.)
I have to decide on that bull calf yet, as am not pleased in thinking of knocking him in the head eventually and eating him.......just is part of this, but AI is more expensive, but less hassle.
So that is your existential experience through me and not some dumb ass posting like an expert on some site acting like they know something. Just find a vet you like, who will work with you, and you need to have a head stall to restrain any animal to care for them in shots or grooming and with just a few vaccinations the animal will be good to go.
Do keep your animals from other animals of their breed though, as other animals will give them diseases as much as lice.
It is not that hard really. It just is things that need tending to, like having baby, you just can not toss them in the corner for the next 21 years. Jersey calves seem a bit more docile than other bovines so things should work out better with them as the rule, in knowing there are always exceptions.
Nuff said.
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