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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Dan on December 17, 2013, 12:13:02 pm

Title: Who needs a mineral lick?
Post by: Dan on December 17, 2013, 12:13:02 pm: http://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/30/What-Are-Those-Objects-On-The-Dam-Wall-You-Have-Got-To-Be-Kidding (http://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/30/What-Are-Those-Objects-On-The-Dam-Wall-You-Have-Got-To-Be-Kidding)

:goat: :)
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Post by: Clarebelle on December 17, 2013, 12:45:03 pm: omg, thats amazing! lol
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Post by: Anke on December 17, 2013, 01:40:43 pm: Yes I have seen that photo somewhere before...
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Post by: Steph Hen on December 17, 2013, 02:56:33 pm: Wow! Dam goats!
I really want to get some... I am pregnant, (due in summer) and have read that I can't be around sheep as there is a disease I could catch that's dangerous to me and or baby. Does anyone know if it can be transmitted by goats or am I safe with them? I had a friend of my husbands lined up offered me his orphaned lambs in the spring, but I've turned him down :( I'll have a go on google I guess. Doctor didn't know.

Edited to add: yes goats should be avoided, but it seems it's mostly new borns and the females giving birth rather than all animals. Will bring it up with OH again, :thinking:
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Post by: shygirl on December 21, 2013, 04:36:46 pm: Quote from: Steph Hen on December 17, 2013, 02:56:33 pm
Wow! Dam goats!
I really want to get some... I am pregnant, (due in summer) and have read that I can't be around sheep as there is a disease I could catch that's dangerous to me and or baby. Does anyone know if it can be transmitted by goats or am I safe with them? I had a friend of my husbands lined up offered me his orphaned lambs in the spring, but I've turned him down :( I'll have a go on google I guess. Doctor didn't know.

Edited to add: yes goats should be avoided, but it seems it's mostly new borns and the females giving birth rather than all animals. Will bring it up with OH again, :thinking:

id just wait - its not worth the risk. im sure its a type of chlamydia that sheep carry but can give humans a still birth/miscarriage, you usually contract it at lambing time.
I know pregnancy seems like a very long 9 mths but it does end eventually - I promise ;D ;D

looks like those goats just need a skateboard :roflanim: :roflanim:
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Post by: mojocafa on December 21, 2013, 05:00:08 pm: Omg

Congratulations steph hen
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Post by: mojocafa on December 21, 2013, 05:01:51 pm: Just realised how that reads

The omg was a reaction to the goats not stephs pregnancy
Mojo
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Post by: Daisys Mum on December 21, 2013, 05:08:42 pm: :goat: Wow that's just amazing, I wonder if any fall?
Congratulations Steph Hen, I agree with shygirl best to wait, the year that my daughter was pregnant we didn't lamb as I felt that it wasn't worth the risk.
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 21, 2013, 10:20:53 pm: I've seen it before but it is worth looking at again. Goats are incredible.

Congratulations, Steph. Summer will soon be here and then you can get your goats.
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Post by: Steph Hen on December 22, 2013, 12:15:32 pm: Thanks guys ;D. I will have to wait as OH is not convincible at present. I've only looked after goats here and there and really enjoyed them, there are so many overgrown areas here that would love to be eaten down... Yes will wait till summer!
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Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 22, 2013, 09:58:19 pm: Catch him at the moment when he's all soppy about becoming a father and thinks you're wonderful for going through it all. That's preferably soon after giving birth and before he discovers sleepless nights. ;)