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12/03/12, 05:22 PM
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Add canned pumpkin to your shopping list
This came up on another board, and canned pumpkin is the first thing I've gotten this goat to eat in three days! She's had horrible runny squirts, and NOTHING was working quick enough, and of course it's the weekend, and she was horribly mad at us, and I made her CRY this morning, and I never heard a goat cry before.
This afternoon, I put a cup with some pumpkin in the feeder on the milk stand, in preparation for dosing her with it by force, and she ATE IT! Oh, the canned pumpkin, not the cup. 
Then, she ate a cracker.
She's going to live!
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12/03/12, 05:40 PM
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Yep...I keep it on hand at all times in case the dogs get garbage gut. I'm so glad your doe ate it 
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12/03/12, 06:21 PM
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"Goats eat anything, don't they?"
Sure, in magical faerie goat land where the goats go traipsing along giant rocky hills eating tin cans off washing lines with knickers and bloomers.
So glad you were able to get her to eat
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12/03/12, 06:37 PM
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And for my girl, it was pine needles, then honeysuckle. Never know what might get them to eat.
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12/03/12, 07:13 PM
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I have a kitty that has runny poo...the pumpkin seems to be helping .
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12/03/12, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Minelson
Yep...I keep it on hand at all times in case the dogs get garbage gut. I'm so glad your doe ate it |
Good to know, my old boy has developed some bad habits lately, and the 'outcome' is not pleasant! Maybe he knows this? He stole a whole pumpkim pie off the counter last week too!
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12/03/12, 08:13 PM
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The kind I get is plain pumpkin in a can. Not pie filling, I think that has flavoring in it.
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12/03/12, 08:14 PM
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Ned Kelly's Trainer
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What about a pumpkin off a vine? >_>
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12/03/12, 08:20 PM
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Any pumpkin works. I've used it for years on my dogs.
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12/03/12, 08:49 PM
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Katie
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I always grow pumpkins for my farm critters. The ducks, guinnea's, peacocks & the goats Love it. Rabbits are supposed to like it too but mine don't.
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12/03/12, 09:01 PM
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Pumpkin is awesome for firming up poop in animals! If you get it from the store make sure its the 100% pure pumpkin....the pie filling may cause a reaction that you really don't want ie worse runs
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12/04/12, 01:14 AM
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This is a new concept to me! Thanks, I never fail to learn on here.
My Naughty Dog (as opposed to my other Good Dog) has among other bad habits a penchant for slimy rotten pumpkin peels snaffled from the compost about the time they start to smell very funky. The rank odour on his breath is a giveaway, alongside the furtive scuttle around the water tank when called. Rather than firming him up, unsurprisingly, they have the opposite effect. Now I will know to try fresh cooked pumpkin to resolve the issue!
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12/04/12, 06:25 AM
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Yes, and omit the peels.
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12/04/12, 06:42 AM
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Katie
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How's your doe doing today Alice? Hope she's feeling better.
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12/04/12, 02:54 PM
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Add canned pumpkin to chilli to take the acidity out of it. Cuts down on heartburn and mellows out the flavor. Just an FYI...no animals were cured in this manner : )
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12/04/12, 03:41 PM
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A can of pumpkin to chili makes the BEST chili ever! I love it that way.
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12/04/12, 04:32 PM
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Katie
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Now I'm going to have to try it in my chili next time I make it. I have a couple still to cook up for the freezer & plan on making some pumpkin pancakes with some of it.
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12/04/12, 08:14 PM
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I've always read that pumpkin seeds are a natural dewormer, so that's an added plus if you can grow/buy fresh pumpkins.
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12/04/12, 08:18 PM
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Ned Kelly's Trainer
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Whoa whoa whoa, back that pumpkin train up.
...natural dewormer? Can this be used on goats....? Can someone please elaborate??? I will forever be grateful and I'll make you a pumpkin pie....
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12/04/12, 08:45 PM
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It's just that their rough hull MAY expel SOME worms. Not reliable.
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