FightBac: We spray each girl's teats with this before she leaves the milk stand to help close the teat and prevent mastitis.Kidding supplies: We never want to be short on J-Jelly, feeding tubes, Tri-Iodine for navel dipping, Pritchard nipples and bottles, tattoo ink, and more once kids start to arrive.Pill guns: These work really well for shoving copper boluses far enough back into the mouth that the goats swallow, rather than chew, them.A new feeding syringe: Because every year, we can't find the one we used the previous year.But this year, we're also going to try out one of these bottle mount vaccinators, which should make things easier and reduce some of the waste. Needles and syringes: We use boxes and boxes of these.We're going to switch to this, which many goat farmers swear by. Bovi-Sera: In the past, we've used a vaccine for pneumonia, but Bovi-Sera covers a wider variety of issues, including other respiratory and enteric diseases.CD&T Toxoid: We vaccinate all of the pregnant mamas 21 days before kidding to give the babies passive immunity for Clostridium perfringens and tetanus, then administer two booster shots for the kids at 4 and 8 weeks.CMPK solution: Newly-freshened does also get a good dose of this, which boosts calcium after kidding.We're also stocking up on Valbazen, a different type of wormer that is used in rotation, to prevent resistance to internal creepy-crawlers. This means that all new mamas get a dose of this orally after kidding (it gets washed down with a bucket of warm molasses water - the proverbial spoonful of sugar!), kids get it when they move to new homes, and everyone gets it when there's evidence of need. Noromectin: While we worm based on fecal results, we always give goats that are under stress a dose of wormer, since parasites can take advantage of an animals whose energy is being used for other purposes.So what's in the Took a Leap Farm cart this year? Let's take a peak! Once a year, in January or February, we place a massive order with Jeffers Livestock Supply - it's sort of like taking the goats on an online shopping spree! We get stocked up with all of the necessities for the coming year - and usually decide to try out one or two new items that we discover along the way.
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