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Old 02/14/11, 02:33 PM
 
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my email is kabukienot@yahoo.com so if you dont hear back from me soon then email me, or just email the order
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Old 02/14/11, 03:32 PM
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How often do you need to give this to goats? And how many?
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Old 02/14/11, 08:06 PM
 
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can you give this to any kind of goat any color any size. what does it do for them? what age do you start to give it to them
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its all dependent on you area and feed system. Ill tell you what I do, and what is done but its up to you to do the research. Most of us do 2xs a year. They typically greatly bennifit every goat but can be toxic if too much copper is in the diet. I think everyone will agree the bennifits outweigh the risk.
Average does is 2grams per 50lbs of goat. Oat bucket farm just started a thread on copper and I put links on there to find out your soils mineral content, I strongly advise you read that thread as it goes in great detail about copper.

Copper will give them sleaker coats, kill barber pole worms and give an overall higher production values. I start at about 25lbs worth of goat if born in the winter, a little bit sooner if its a wet summer but I use it more for barber pole worm control than anything
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Old 02/15/11, 09:41 AM
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Pat, come March I will be placing an order for the 2-gram copper boluses. I understand each casule is for 50 lbs of goat and that, at that dose, they kill the barber pole worms.

My area is not copper deficient; however, my aged herd buck benefitted from such boluses last year; so believe he will again this year. He weighs 250 lbs; so I believe that would be 5 boluses each time. Twice a year, I would need 10 of your 2-gram copper boluses. I understand they are 75 cents each + shipping. I live in Virginia. Can you let me know how much total that will be? (I never use credit cards anymore; so I will understand your needing to wait until my check clears the bank to ship; which is certainly ok.)
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Are the wormers the same price? I'd like to get 20 of each.
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Old 02/15/11, 11:39 AM
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I received my order yesterday. Thank you Cannon for all your help making this easier and affordable
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Old 02/15/11, 11:59 AM
 
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Rockytopics,
The copper bolus is VERY safe for pregnant does. They are mineral.

The copper bolus are not the only thing to treat for barberpole. It does a lot for like hooves, health, makes shine coats and no bald from the tip of tail and it helps a lot!
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Old 02/15/11, 10:50 PM
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I would like to order some copper boluses too. Does this help if the goats are copper deficient also? I can use paypal or send a check. thanks a lot
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Old 02/15/11, 11:28 PM
 
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Are the wormers the same price? I'd like to get 20 of each.
I cant even remember what I had broken down the wormer at cost but 25 cents each is fine on the herbal wormer.
Please let me know soon as I am running low on supplies
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I would like to order some copper boluses too. Does this help if the goats are copper deficient also? I can use paypal or send a check. thanks a lot
yes, greatly its slow released so normally you only have to do it twice a year.
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Cannon I still need your address to send a check, thanks!
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Old 02/16/11, 09:27 AM
 
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ok, im having a hard time keeping track of things via pm on the forum, they only allow so many so I keep getting filled up and cant see who I have responed to and not. Please email me with orders and addresses as that space is unlimited and I can keep better track.

kabukienot@yahoo.com

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Old 02/22/11, 11:09 AM
 
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Hi,
am reposting this to the right thread....


I checked out our counties copper levels and this is what it listed,

Copper Cu (ppm) 2.078 0.412 1.013 3.347

I read recently on another thread about "fishtail" and went straight out to see if our goats have that...
well, a couple of them appear to have it in varying degrees.. none of their tails are bald, but I can see the shape change of the hair there and I had noticed their coats becoming kinda rough and fluffy but figured that was caused by the cold temps, lol. The 4 month old bucklings are showing it the most.

We have 5 adult Nigerian does, 2 bucks and 3 babies around 4 months old.
Also, 1 two year old Alpine doe who had twin doelings 3 weeks ago and a yearling alpine doe. They have free choice loose minerals available which they do go through.
So...I want to order from you, but am confused on how much we need and have never given a bolus, will they just eat them in a treat or could I give each of them the dose in food or water?

thanks!
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Old 02/22/11, 05:57 PM
 
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Temporarly I am out of bolus, waiting on more capsules to arrive. I have had a larger demand than I had planned for.
You must unfortunately force these upon the goats, once the capsules arrive so I can do my own goats I plan on making a video.
You in my non veterinary opinion you would need one for every 50lbs of goat, so a 100 lb goat would need two. If you do not have a tape or scale you can try the sheep calculator to get a general weight,

http://www.tractorsupply.com/content...t_calculations

Please email me with orders.
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Old 02/22/11, 07:26 PM
 
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I will email the order to you, and understand that you accept paypal?

Do you have an idea of when you expect the next batch to be available?

thanks for providing this service, too!

Ellie Mae
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Old 02/22/11, 08:04 PM
 
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i hope to have the capsules by thursday and to be mailing out by monday. I had a good many capsules but ummmm I had a drink and a stupid cat so I lost about 150 capsules
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Old 02/22/11, 08:25 PM
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Don't drink and cat lol!!!
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darn cat knocked it over onto my goat med box and not only got the capsules but my other bag of herbal wormer, good thing the goats like budwiser with lime and they needed some.
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Old 02/22/11, 09:41 PM
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darn cat knocked it over onto my goat med box and not only got the capsules but my other bag of herbal wormer, good thing the goats like budwiser with lime and they needed some.
I can just picture it because I have a very naughty kittie right now that is into everything! "HEY! Get out of HERE!!!"
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