Giving copper to goats

Just so you know... I gave the doelings the dosage recommended, not the whole bolus. Reading your info, I wasn't comfortable with that much copper in their systems.

Anyone got any tips to make the dosing go better next time? For each goat (even the big girls the other day!), it took 2-3 tries with the balling gun to get it down their throats, and I'm not going to stick my fingers back where extremely sharp molars can do serious damage!!!! I need my fingers too badly.

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Amy,
Manager of Ezekiel's Garden:
4 homeschooled boys (T, L, M, J), 1 high tech redneck dh, Alpine & Grade dairy goats, a chicken menagerie, and our garden.

It gets easier with practice! (Ask me how I know . . .) Also, it's MUCH easier if you have a helper to hold the goat while you bolus.

NeHi

I put my goats on the milk stand, then stand over them. Works OK, but it's still not my favorite thing to do with goats.

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Alice
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"No great thing is created suddenly." ~Epictitus

I should hope so! For doelings, the whole bolus would be a tremendous overdose.
I just stand over the goat, straddling their neck, pull their head up gently so that their mouth is in a straight line with their throat, and in it goes. Not my favorite thing, but its not hard.

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Emily Dixon
Ozark Jewels
Nubians & Lamanchas
www.ozarkjewels.net

"Remember, no man is a failure, who has friends" -Clarence

me standing over the goat would lift me up the ground
i put them on the milkstand or clip to the fence and hug them to give the bolus.

even my biggest buck let me do this i'm 5.0'

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Susanne Stuetzler
Ain-ash-shams
Nubian Dairy Goats

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I guess that is one advantage to being 5'10" and having long legs.

But I can't straddle my bucks either, not even close. Them, I have to clip to a fence and lean over to copper bolus.

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Emily Dixon
Ozark Jewels
Nubians & Lamanchas
www.ozarkjewels.net

"Remember, no man is a failure, who has friends" -Clarence

oh emily, my legs are long too, they reach to the ground only my arms are getting shorter and shorter

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Susanne Stuetzler
Ain-ash-shams
Nubian Dairy Goats

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http://www.ain-ash-shams.net

Susanne that looks like a pony!

Guess that is another advantage to Nigerians - I have no trouble straddling even my buck, despite my 29" inseam.

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