|
Shipping notes:
USDA Voice Response Line: 1-800-545-8732 To find out up to date
shipping requirements for importing animals into your state. Touch tone phone required.
Airlines:
Skywest 1-800-258-2208
We have used all of these with good results.
Bloodtests Including CAE, Johnnes, CL
WADDL (WA Animal Disease & Diagnostics Lab)
1-509-335-9696
Shipping Address:
College Station/Bustad Hall Room 155N
Pullman, Wa 99165
You can submit one 3ml (cc) red topped test tube and they can run all 3
tests from one. They do send the cl test to UC Davis in California, but you will get one bill from WADDL.
Handling your blood sample for the above tests:
Draw your sample (later on I'll put in photo instructions on how to do that).
Put into 3mm vacuum red topped tube labeled with goat's id. My tubes are given to me for free by my veterinarian.
The labs supply my vet for free.
Let sample sit at room temperature for 6 to 8 hours or until it clots.
You may see clear serum separating. This is ok. Now refrigerate.
Prepare a box or sometimes I used a padded mailer. Put groups of tubes
together, put in a ziplock baggie, and bubble wrap them good.
Give WSU (WA State University) written instructions on who to bill &
send results to, an animal list by the id you have written on the tubes, animal type, and tests you want run.
UPS them. My veterinarian has had the most success with UPS
in their handling and delivering of lab samples.
If you can have your samples to WSU by Wednesday they run their tests on
Thursdays. You can call that afternoon for results, followed by a hardcopy in your mail. It takes about a week
after that to get your CL results.
Call them for current rates. This is very affordable insurance
for the protection and management of your herd.
Plasticrates 1-800-255-6279 Order your crates in bulk and save
your customer's money! No website, call for current price list.
Merri's Goat Brew - Merri McDonald of Merrihill Lamanchas
This is a great pick up for does that have just kidded, are stressed or ill!
1/2 gallon warm water
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 large teaspoon of baking soda
1 large teaspoon of probios
1/2 cup of electrolyte power (cherry or orange if you have it or gatoraid)
1 ounce (30 ml) of liquid vitamins or nutradrench
mix together and serve to your doe. If she's really stressed and won't drink you
can carefully drench her with it.
I use this whenever I have a milker off of feed, or feel cold teats on a milker. I
use it at shows too on stressed does. It is also used to treat milk fever- if you catch it early enough.
I give 30 cc orally and 60 cc orally if it's an early milk fever. It has a sugar base so I also use it here sometimes with
ketosis as well.
Colloidal Silver do a web search on this product to learn more.
It is capable of killing viruses, bad bacteria, and single celled parasites when made correctly. It is VERY
safe- one must consume 50 gallons per day to get toxic (per FDA). They are silver ions with an electrical charge
suspended in water- I cannot remember if they are pos or neg charge- but the bad guys have the opposite charge
so they are attracted to them. They work mechanically to break thru the cell, rendering it dead. Cells cannot
get an "immunity" to this as any cell it attaches to is toast- it keeps no prisoners. This product, like herbs, cannot
be patented as it is natural, therefor will not make any pharmceutical companies money... so, you don't hear about
this stuff in mainstream media or publications.... Ok I'm getting political here.... :O).
You can NOT let any metal touch this or it deionizes. No spoons, no metal lids
or bands, no metal buckets or stock tanks... It should be stored out of light in a cupboard.
I have used it in the following in my herd:
Aged Dolly gets a weepy "Allergy eye". We gently spray it on the eye and
the weeping goes away. I really should be giving it to her orally more often.
Orally- for a case of chronic mastitis that antibiotics didn't work on- after
several days the matistis cleared.
Orally- for a doe that just didn't seem to be quite right all year-
couldn't get her to grow well while in milk (very heavy producer), and would often have a runny nose so I knew the immune
system was tired. Started her on about 10 cc morning and evening milking, and in a week she had put
on 7 lbs and runny nose was gone!
Show season- I like to give my does 6 or 7 cc am and pm milkings. They seem
to keep better that way though I don't have a "control" group of milkers. The plus side is that if there comes
a time that I have to drench them with something they are easy to drench!
Oh no! At one fair a few years ago another person had carelessly left
a milk bucket out with milk in it- within reach of my yearling pen. I was horrified to find one of my yearlings
iwth her face buried in it sucking up the milk- full of dead flies by now. I had a pint of colloidal
silver with me and after washing her face off with a water hose we drenched her with the ENTIRE pint- I wanted whatever
bugs were in there to have a lot of colloidal silver to swim with. Thankfully we found the next day that they
ran a strict wsu testing program and tested for cl, johhnes and cae and were current on tests. But those flies still
had who knows what in them... Not to mention other things that can be in milk. Doe tested neg following
spring. I hope this NEVER happens again. Please folks - be VERY careful where you leave milk and better
yet- DON'T leave ANY OUT!!!!!!!! Bring a 5 gallon plastic bucket, get one of those screw on lids, and deposit
it there and then twist on the lid. I handtruck that to the milk dump...
Stitches??? I still don't know how Blondie managed to cut the top of her
withers open- about a 5 inch long and 1/4 inch deep cut- on a weekend. Well, call the vet? Get
stitches to hold over the withers??? I didnt' think so. Ok, test time. Started spraying
with colloidal silver- immediately and then each milking. Every milking we could see a beautiful new layer of
pink flesh. No redness, no discharge... She has a scar that is barely visible when clipped.
She was already up to date on her tetnaus injection. If you are not experienced in evaluating a wound please DO
have your vet assess it. There could be nerves and other things involved.
Supplies to make your Colloidal Silver:
1) Clean canning jar
2) Distilled water - it MUST be distilled don't cheat or it won't work!
3) .9999 fine or finer silver wires- get about 1 foot length from a jewler.
Don't cheat on quality or you will be putting toxic nickel and other impurities into your product. You can also
use REAL silver coins.
4) Three 9 volt batteries- the square ones.
5) two about 12 inch (long enough to be easy to use) wires- electrical is
fine. Use string first to get the length right before you buy and cut your wire to size.
6) Two alligator clips from hardware store or radio shack...
Take your batteries. Set two side by side with small sides touching- with
a positive side next to a neg size.
Take 3rd batterie and plug it in upside down to the other two batteries so that
they are stacked like a pyramid.
Attach your electrical wire with alligator clips to the exposed posts on your
batteries- one will be a neg and one a pos.
Bare a bit of the ends of the wires, turn the ends of your two silver
wires into a loop. Loop elec wire thru the ends. Bend silver wire about 2 or 3 inches below where
it connects to the elec wires.
Fill canning jar (I use a quart) with distilled water (remember to use a
PLASTIC lid for jar when done).
Place both silver wires/rods into the water. Remember the metal electrical
wire can NOT touch the water or it will not ionize.
Set your timer about 45 minutes. I wrap a towel around
the jar to keep light off of it. As your batteries age with use you will increase the time.
When done you will usually see two things: a faint yellowish tint
to your silver water, and some corrosion from the silver.
Pour into new clean jar using a paper coffee filter- remember- you can't use a
metal strainer! You want only the small silver particles in the water.
Lid and put in dark place for 2 to 3 hours to let silver filter thruout the water.
Clean your silver rods with a scrubby pad, wipe with tissue, and store in
bag for next use.
Use as often as you like. Please email me with any results you have
as most results I've seen posted are for people, and I'd love to list goat results :O). May God bless
the health of you and your herd :O).
P.S. My big stock vet used this once and he's not really into natural
products. They had a client's horse that needed a $7000 surgery at WSU to remove an internal abcess(es) which
was not affordable to the client. After consulting with a Texas horse vet for ideas, they put the horse on intravenous
colloidal silver- intravenous as the horse was running out of time. The horse survived to their amazement
and did not require the surgery after treatment. Do NOT try this at home, but did think it was interesting...
Show Whites Stain Remover
1 part ammonia
1 part dawn dish soap
1 part water
put in spray bottle and shake. Spray on liberally. This has been working really
well! Thanks to Deb McCandles for this recipe.
Homemade Fly Spray &/or cleaner
1 Part dish soap
1 Part vinegar
3 parts water
I have been using this for two fly seasons and it has been working well for us. It is
pretty safe & can double as a cleaner too.
Fungus treatment recipe- for ringworm, hoof issues, etc
1 part bleach
9 parts water
Put in a spray bottle and use liberally. Keep out of eyes or other soft tissues.
Sanitizer/Udder Wash for milk equip & udders
3 Tablespoons bleach (1/4 cup)
1 gallon warm water
1 squirt dish soap
Udder Wash
7 drops of essential oil- lavendar or tea tree or rosemary or peppermint or eucalyptus
1 quart gallon of water
Milk Stone Remover
Put a couple of tablespoons of vinegar per quart of water and let soak.
|
