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I've been waiting for this! Love them cutie baby sheep (and goats). Is it weird I'm super excited someone on the internet bred a lot of their livestock this year? Because I don't even care.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2013 16:17 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:18 |
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Instant Jellyfish posted:Horns are really hard and full of blood vessels, there's really no way to just trim them like a cat's claws. It's more like cutting through bone than through nail. You would need a wire saw or something like a tree branch nipper and there's not a good way to see where the core ends so you run the risk of cutting that and causing a ton of bleeding or getting infected and needing the whole thing removed anyway. Easier to just cauterize the buds before they develop and while the kid is still teeny and easy to handle. At a Goat Day festival once (this is a thing in rural north Florida), we saw a lot of people using tennis balls on the end of their goats' horns to prevent any injuries. It was super to see these big bucks and their massive sets of horns, with neon yellow tennis balls stuck to the ends of them.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 18:22 |
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Instant Jellyfish posted:I will when I bring him to shear and take pics for you. Due to a certain freckledog I have quite a few punctured tennis balls around to use. Haha, yesssss.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2013 00:35 |
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LoreOfSerpents posted:Have a silly Goliath doodle: This is the most thing.
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# ¿ May 12, 2013 14:09 |
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Women's Rights? posted:I will never accept her being named anything else. Then it's official.
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# ¿ May 15, 2013 00:26 |
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Pogonodon posted:Not exactly livestock, but I couldn't think of anyplace for poultry to go, so have a load of guineafowl keets that hatched the last three days. Plus three bantams. There's also a backyard chicken thread that would love to see these.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2013 19:52 |
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piscesbobbie posted:Came across this ADORABLE video on YOUTUBE. http://youtu.be/_DUsuASjDis I think I want me some goats and/or sheep! That was a motherfucking delight to watch. All those babby goats just wanting to climb on her.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2013 01:48 |
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Instant Jellyfish posted:I was going to post pictures of my barn construction project but have some animals raiding my apple trees instead. Every time you post new sheep pics, I end up making dumb noises at my screen -- like right now it's the kind of noises I imagine the sheep are making as they eat their apples. BLAAAAAAGH NOMNAAAAAUGH. It's been the highlight of my evening.
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# ¿ Aug 20, 2013 02:01 |
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RazorBunny posted:
Ha, Tallahassee. It figures.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2013 03:26 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:18 |
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Poor Iph. She's basically the thread mascot here, and I'm sad to hear lab error caused this. What can be done about the lab that sent back consistent false negatives, or is that just one of the accepted hazards?
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# ¿ Jan 28, 2014 02:47 |