Sense bringing Toony, Flower, and Ashes home I have learned quite a bit about sheep, goats and pigs. First of which being that goat and sheep hooves MUST be trimmed every 4 - 6 weeks, something their previous owners must not have know because their hooves where horrendous! Lucky for me my sister owns a horse and knows a few things about hooves so between the both of us we where able to trim their hooves last week. This is not fun when you don’t have a shearing stand to latch them too. It was like WWE farm style with me wrestling the animals while my sister clipped their feet. Would of been funny if I wasn't so black and blue the next day.... and we get to do it all over in a month. Also there are certain vaccines sheep and goats must have, which once I actually find the vaccine I shouldn't have any trouble administering it.
I also found out that there seems to be a consensus among farmers that its a-ok to neuter a farm animal when they are only days or weeks old without any anesthesia or pain medication.... as seen below. (the spray is disinfectant not something to help with the pain)
I also found out that there seems to be a consensus among farmers that its a-ok to neuter a farm animal when they are only days or weeks old without any anesthesia or pain medication.... as seen below. (the spray is disinfectant not something to help with the pain)
Now this is done in piglets to prevent something called boar taint in the meat of the male pigs. So guess what I am soooo not doing to my little piglets next year, my little babies are keeping their nuts thank you very much. I guess we will see if I have any trouble with this boar taint or not.
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