Stinky - but disease free! - Boys!

[mygoat]

Called into WADDL today for the test results on my 6 month old boys. I tested the Alpine buckling that I bought when he was 4 days old from a clean herd, a buckling that was born here (but is for sale so I tested him first), and my boer buck that I purchased from a CL/CAE tested herd. Everybody is negative for CL, CAE, and Johne's. Exciting, because this means I can move everybody into the 'grown up' pen instead of having 3 separate buck pens for isolation of new stock.

I took my 6 month old that was most in rut to visit does - now that I have disease results, I can take him over on a leash to see if anybody is in heat. He had fun blubbering, kicking, snorting and otherwise making a fool of himself with the ladies. The girls were not impressed...

I then trimmed thier hooves, which was gross considering thier status in various points of rut... I only got sprayed once! Thank goodness my boys are sweet. I did get flirted with, but my sweet keeper buck protects me from unwanted attention.

[HappyFarmer]

That's all that really matters.

Congratulations, I'd follow up at a year and again 6 months after that just to be safe.

Luckily, I've never been sprayed. I always use an old shop rag to grab their front legs for trimming this time of year. Even so, somehow I still manage to stink like they do.

HF

[mygoat]

Oh yes, they'll be retested at about a year, when everyone gets their yearly done in the spring. I've been disease free for... 6 years now I think? I'd have to look back. But, there's always a LITTLE risk bringing new stock in. Hence the isolation. I can now butcher the extra buckling that I kept to be a companion to the boer buckling I bought, and I can sell the companion buckling I kept in with my purchased Alpine buckling. (I isolated the new alpine buck kid and the new boer kid separate. )

[NataliaTwoDoes]

Yay! congrats... Im still wanting to get the testing done on my goats. Just need someone to show me how to do it...... draw blood, package ect.

[Donna1982]

Congrats

[andabigmac]

Isn't it the greatest feeling of relief when you get clean results?