Author Topic: Down on the farm with the Bushlander (Read 284110 times)

weskusklong · « **Reply #660 on:** April 02, 2016, 07:19:57 pm »

Nee wat,arc eyes gaan jou volgende probleem wees,daai kappies laat te veel lig in.

Bliknêrs · « **Reply #661 on:** April 02, 2016, 07:53:34 pm »

Ek het nogal ewe uitgesien na die fotos van die vuilbek bokkies!

Oubones · « **Reply #662 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:05:08 pm »

Quote from: Dorsland on April 02, 2016, 07:13:52 pm

Raait, dis gereël. Van Maandag af, word al my bokke met sulke boshoede uitgereik.

Eish, net vir die ooie anders gaan jy dalk stoet probleme kry!

Het jy nou al water in daardie mooi damme?

Dorsland · « **Reply #663 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:16:04 pm »

Nee noggie, het darem so 16mm verlede week gehad maar nog nie damwater hier gereën nie. Ai, sou lekker wees as ek so bietjie klamigheid in die damme kon kry so voor die winter $:-\$

Dorsland · « **Reply #664 on:** April 02, 2016, 08:16:27 pm »

Quote from: Bliknêrs on April 02, 2016, 07:53:34 pm

Ek het nogal ewe uitgesien na die fotos van die vuilbek bokkies!

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Dorsland · « **Reply #665 on:** April 03, 2016, 03:51:20 pm »

Na amper 3 weke lyk die bok baie beter.

Oubones · « **Reply #666 on:** April 03, 2016, 06:46:43 pm »

Ja, kom mooi aan!

Mev Vis Arend · « **Reply #667 on:** April 12, 2016, 01:21:07 pm »

Ag, Liewe Vader tog, Dorsland. Gaan dit beter met die bokkies? Ek vertrou jy sou my laat weet het as Bly siek was.

Sterkte vir die diertjies en groete vir jou beter-helfde.

Draad · « **Reply #668 on:** April 12, 2016, 02:07:43 pm »

Jy moet maar elke oggend bietjie "lipice" op daai bokke se lippe smeer

eisch dit moet seker nie lekker vir die diere wees nie Ai Tog !

woody1 · « **Reply #669 on:** April 12, 2016, 02:37:25 pm »

Lyk my meer of hy in jou doringraad vasgeloop het Mnr Draad... daar drup sy bloed ook nog.

Draad · « **Reply #670 on:** April 12, 2016, 02:53:52 pm »

My draad hang nooit uit nie

DeepBass9 · « **Reply #671 on:** April 12, 2016, 03:31:53 pm »

That looks a lot better. Fortunately we haven't experienced vuilbek yet.

Dorsland · « **Reply #672 on:** April 12, 2016, 05:51:42 pm »

Ek het eintlik vergeet om die "gesonde" fotos hier te pos. Al die bokkers is weer mooi gesond en die haarkleed groei al mooi terug. So lyk daai bokkie verlede week al.

Julle kan my nou maar as Dokter Dorsland aanspreek asseblief

Draad · « **Reply #673 on:** April 12, 2016, 05:57:24 pm »

Dorsland · « **Reply #674 on:** April 12, 2016, 06:01:48 pm »

Quote from: DeepBass9 on April 12, 2016, 03:31:53 pm

That looks a lot better. Fortunately we haven't experienced vuilbek yet.

As you know, it's a virus that survives in the soil. If you don't have it on your farm, you are unlikely to be bothered by vuilbek unless you somehow bring it back from auction pens, vehicles or having infected animals bring it on your farm. The good news is that once kids have had it, they don't get it again. Caught early and treated, it last around 7 - 10 days and doesn't mutate to the worse strains like the kid in the pix DB. The bad news is that vuilbek mutates and gas 100s of different strains, one of the reasons why OBP's Orf vaccine is not very effective. The best advice is to break off some of the scabs from the warts into a bottle, take it to the vet and let them culture a vaccine specifically for the strains found on your farm.

Dorsland · « **Reply #675 on:** April 12, 2016, 06:03:17 pm »

Quote from: Mev Vis Arend on April 12, 2016, 01:21:07 pm

Ag, Liewe Vader tog, Dorsland. Gaan dit beter met die bokkies? Ek vertrou jy sou my laat weet het as Bly siek was.

Sterkte vir die diertjies en groete vir jou beter-helfde.

Neewat, gaan voor die wind Mev Vis. Bly is al groot en gaan dié maand vir die 2de keer gedek word. Sy loop nou saam met een van die grootooi troppe in die bergveld.

DeepBass9 · « **Reply #676 on:** April 12, 2016, 08:23:22 pm »

Quote from: Dorsland on April 12, 2016, 06:01:48 pm

Quote from: DeepBass9 on April 12, 2016, 03:31:53 pm
That looks a lot better. Fortunately we haven't experienced vuilbek yet.

As you know, it's a virus that survives in the soil. If you don't have it on your farm, you are unlikely to be bothered by vuilbek unless you somehow bring it back from auction pens, vehicles or having infected animals bring it on your farm. The good news is that once kids have had it, they don't get it again. Caught early and treated, it last around 7 - 10 days and doesn't mutate to the worse strains like the kid in the pix DB. The bad news is that vuilbek mutates and gas 100s of different strains, one of the reasons why OBP's Orf vaccine is not very effective. The best advice is to break off some of the scabs from the warts into a bottle, take it to the vet and let them culture a vaccine specifically for the strains found on your farm.

Good to know. We only buy in rams from good breeders and sell from the farm so hopefully we'll never have that problem.

We have a peculiar case currently though, a young ram about 10 weeks old doesn't want to walk on his back legs. No parasites, or ticks or anything. In the morning, he figures out a way to cantilever himself up so that he can walk on his front two legs, and the back two dangle in the air. Later in the day he seems to walk on them reluctantly. No injuries, ticks, tenderness or anything. I'm not sure if you have come across anything like that, or if it is a neurological or psychosomatic defect? Very wierd.

Dorsland · « **Reply #677 on:** April 12, 2016, 08:43:35 pm »

Check the tip of the tail for bloodiness or signs of ticks. Anticoagulant enzymes from tick bites on the tail tip or around the anus can cause a spinal infection that paralyzes the hindquarter. Called sitsiekte in Afrikaans.

High doses of tetracycline may cure it but most often it doesn't come right. If you have to slaughter the animal, a PM would be good to positively identify the cause.

Good luck DB, let me know.

Only thing I can think of

ROOI · « **Reply #678 on:** April 13, 2016, 07:48:42 am »

More Dok sorry ek kom nou eers terug daai damme lyk baie mooi sal daarvan hou om hulle onder water te sien ,Jy seker ook

Dorsland · « **Reply #679 on:** April 17, 2016, 09:18:28 am »

Dis nou hoe om lusern in US dollar om te sit

Julle (behalwe Bliknêrs

) het seker al vergeet hoe lyk 'n Bushlander, so hier is 'n kiekie sodat julle nie van hom vergeet nie.

Ek was vanoggend weer, soos elke oggend en elke middag, by die kwarentynkampe waar ek 2 troppe bokke het wat 5 Mei oor die see gaan. Alles is nog reg met die bokkers, inentings, dip en ontwurmings alles gedoen, geen probleme nie. More kom die veeaarts bloedtrek vir al hulle toetse en behoort ek die uitslae binne so 10 dae terug te kry.

Daai bakkie gaan sy sleep moet ken, dis 'n stewige vrag wat moet gaan. Dis 'n lang pad wat vir die klompie Boerbokke voorlê so hulle vakansie hier in die kwarentynkampe is voorbedreiding. Ek is nou met my planne besig vir die bybring van die 2de dek op my vee sleepwa. Ek wil nie heeltyd 'n dubbeldek wa sleep nie, daarom die boonste dek wat gaan kan losbout en afgehaal kan word. Ek sal binnekort hier 'n paar fodies van my wa hier pos.