Re: [Blackbelly] Goats and Sheep

[Cecil Bearden]

That is a great idea about the Guava.   I will try to keep that trick in 
my head for the next time I have a problem.  It is so much safer on 
kidneys than Sulmet boluses.

Cecil in OKla

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Aloha,
   It looks like I'm the local orphan feeder.  I have a Nubian about a week old that had terrible scours when I got him and nothing seemed to work.  Finally my neighbor said that the old Hawaiian cure for people is Guava.  I got some fruit from our road, blended it and mixed the juice with the milk and the dear little thing did not have the scours since then.  It truly worked. 

   Since this Nubian is a buck I'm wondering if anyone has ever had the goats mate with the sheep.  My full grown Sweetie Pie (Kathadin) let him climb all over her back for 15 minutes yesterday.  
  
   My end goal is cheese and breeding.  My girls seem big enough to milk but people tell me the teats are too small.  Any experience? 

   If they won't mate, how was the wool bred out of them in the first place???? 
  Are Blackbellies 1/2 goat or is that a myth?


    Aloha a hui hou kaua! 
(Goodbye until we meet again) 
                            Barbara  Heavens
                           POB 1869, Kea`au, Hawaii 96749
                                 

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