MRS. S. NEWS LETTER FOR
APRIL, MAY AND JUNE OF 2012
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APRIL
April is . . . . International Guitar Month, Keep America Beautiful Month, National Anxiety Month, National Humor Month, National Welding Month, National Garden Month, and Uh-Huh Month
April 8 is . . . . . All Is Ours Day
April 18 is . . . . International Jugglers Day
April 25 is . . . . National Zucchini Bread Day
April 29 is . . . . National Shrimp Scampi Day
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NEWS FROM APRIL 1812
April 4 – U.S. President James Madison enacts a 90-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
April 30 – Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U.S. state.
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MAY
May is . . . . Better Sleep Month, National Good Car Care Month, National Photo Month, National Salad Month, National Egg Month, National Barbecue Month, Revise Your Work Schedule Month, Date Your Mate Month, National Hamburger Month, and Fungal Infection Awareness Month
May 5 is . . . . . National Hoagie Day
May 11 is . . . . Eat What You Want Day and Twilight Zone Day
May 19 is . . . . Frog Jumping Jubilee Day
May 29 is . . . . End Of The Middle Ages Day
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NEWS FROM MAY 1812
May 11 – John Bellingham assassinates British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
May 25 – Felling mine disaster: A mine explosion at the Felling colliery near Jarrow, England leaves 96 dead.
May 28 – Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812 and making Bessarabia a part of Imperial Russia.
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JUNE
June is . . . . Adopt-A-Shelter-Cat Month, American Rivers Month, Cancer In The Sun Month, Dairy Month, Turkey Lover's Month, National Accordian Awareness Month, National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month, National Ice Tea Month, National Papaya Month, National Pest Control Month, National Rose Month, Fight The Filthy Fly Month, and Zoo and Aquarium Month
June 4 is . . . . . Old Maid's Day
June 12 is . . . . Machine Day
June 21 is . . . .Cuckoo Warning Day
June 29 is . . . . Camera Day
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NEWS FROM JUNE 1812
June 1 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
June 4 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the territory by that name is renamed the Missouri Territory.
June 16 – New York State charters City Bank of New York, which later became Citibank.
June 18 – The War of 1812 begins between the United States and the British Empire.
June 24 – Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Niemen River and invades Russia (see French invasion of Russia).
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1. Streams In The Desert:
http://mrssurvival.c...hp?showforum=20This is a forum for prayers, and study.
http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=45336Rowan Ford Horrible death of a child by: Twilight
Posted 21 March 2012 - 10:54 AM
When this happened , I cried for days.
She was killed a few miles from my home but lived about 20 miles away.
I never knew her but had friends that had children that were best friends with Rowan.
http://ozarksfirst.c...t?nxd_id=616962 This is one of many sites.
This is a case of antipathy , ignorance, not wanting to be involved, blindness
what other adjective can I use?
A poverty worn mother who worked to support the family, a deadbeat husband or live in,
leaving a child with a man that was not her father.
The child was always hungry, I think she got only what she could scrounge in the summer or weekends.
She went to every church meeting, she helped anywhere there was any kind of gathering.
She helped at the food pantry, but would take nothing unless it was given to her. Even though
she had been seen stuffing 4 or 5 cookies in her mouth at one time, no one considered she was in need of
food.
I do hope God took all pain and awareness away from her before the rape started......For Jesus loved
the little children and said let them come unto me
"Vengeance is mine saith the Lord I will repay" . I do not know where the Collins guy has been incarcerated
but even in prison men do not like men who have raped little girls. Collins is big but there is a violence
in prisons that can handle even big men. Whatever but I do not think God will let these men go easily punished
Rowan was also raped by the David Spears the man her mother was living with and he was too fat to get a job weighing
300 plus.
This is so hard to take
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3. Daily Diary:
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=451883 Eggs in the Eagles Nest by: Dee
I don't know how many of you watched them last year but she has been busy and has 3 eggs, so far, in her nest. If didn't watch it last year you might want to give it a try. It's really kind of cool and the webcam is on 24/7.
http://www.decoraheaglecamalerts.com/***
Not sure how many of you have been watching this, but, I am. Snowmom
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4. Humor Me:
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=44981North Dakota Ghost ride by: gofish
This happened last winter just outside of Douglas, a little town in the back country of North Dakota . It sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale.
This out-of-state traveler was on the side of the road, hitchhiking on a real dark night in the middle of a snow storm. Time passed slowly and no cars went by. It was snowing so hard he could hardly see his hand in front of his face.
Suddenly he saw a car moving slowly, approaching and appearing ghost like in the snow. It slowly and silently crept toward him and stopped. Wanting a ride real bad the guy jumped in the car and closed the door; only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the wheel, and no sound of an engine .
Again the car crept slowly forward and the guy was terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running. The guy saw that the car was approaching a sharp curve and, still too scared to jump out, he started to pray and began begging for his life; he was sure the ghost car would go off the road and into a nearby lake and he would drown!
But just before the curve, a shadowy figure appeared at the driver's window and a hand reached in and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend. Then, just as silently, the hand disappeared through the window and the hitchhiker was alone again! Paralyzed with fear, the guy watched the hand reappear every time they reached a curve.
Finally the guy, scared to near death, had all he could take and jumped out of the car and ran and ran, into Garrison. Wet and in shock, he went into a bar and voice quavering, ordered two shots of whiskey, then told everybody about his supernatural experience.
A silence enveloped and everybody got goose bumps when they realized the guy was telling the truth (and was not just some drunk).
About half an hour later two guys walked into the bar and one says to the other, 'Look Ole, ders dat idiot that rode in our car when we wuz pushin it in the snow.'
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5. Nature's Perscriptions:
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=43752Poison Oak what will help to relieve symptoms? by: Deb2of9
Okay. Last Monday I was sick and went to stat care. They put me on an antibiotic for Bronchitis. Monday night we lost power, and I had forgotten to get refill the water jugs after we emptied them. We went to a spring to get water and on the way back we found a tree down. My daughter and I moved it partly out of the way. Well Tuesday I had small bumps and tightness on my face. By Wednesday I was full blown rash on my face and neck and assorted bumps on my hands and one ankle. I stopped the antibiotic. I figured I had either had developed an allergy to the antibiotic or had gotten a bad reaction to the sun because it is a photosensitive med (Z-Pak). I went to my daughter's and showed it to her. It seems that she looked almost the same as me, only she hadn't been on an antibiotic. We figured out that we had been exposed to poison oak when we moved the down tree. I have it bad. I have been taking benadryl, but this morning my eye was swelled almost shut. Anyone have any ideas for rememdies that I can try? I can't afford to miss more of work and have no insurance so unless I have no choice I don't want to have to go to the doctor. If it swells up much more, I might have to go to the doctor anyway.
Any suggestions of stuff to try will be greatly appreciated. Besides my face it has gotten between my fingers, so even using my hands hurt.
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Read what others have suggested.
With Spring here, I thought this could be of help to someone. Snowmom
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6. Preserving the Harvest
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=44683dehydrating without power by: ScrubbieLady
My friend got an Excalibur dehydrator. Just a curious question. It is metal. I wonder if it could be used outside in the sun and not necessarily with electricity?
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7. Nature's Bounty :
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=44609Comparing gardening methods for when TSHTF How to Grow More Vegetables/Gardening When it Counts by: LaBellaVita
I would love to discuss gardening methods with you all. Namely which ones would truly be best in a TSHTF scenario.
Option A: How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons
I've heard great things about this double-dig method, its mentioned in several gardening books I have like The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live it by John Seymour and The Self-Sufficient Suburban Garden by Jeff Ball (learned about that book here!).
Plants here are planted very close together to get you more harvest for your space.
I loved this idea because its focus is on building up the soil, also due to the dense plantings you have high yields per foot and it seems there would be much less of a weed problem, but when I read about watering daily and I became concerned. Watering daily doesn't seem like an easy thing to do in potential TSHTF situation, even with water barrels. How much water can you store?
Option B: Gardening When it Counts by Steve Solomon
This book recommends you give your plants plenty of space so they don't have to compete for resources like water. He actually directly conflicts w/ what Jeavons said about being able to save like 70%-80% water by dense plantings! Help!
Option C: then there is the Back to Eden film which showcases this gentleman's extensive use of wood chips composted. LOTS of compost. And then more compost on top of compost. Sounds like that is all he uses. I know it takes time to make this kind of mulch, but I'm really looking at this...
Back to Eden
He discusses how well the mulch retains moisture and cuts down on weeds. And when I look at his garden, he has plants spread pretty far apart.
OK everybody, I would LOVE to discuss these gardening ideas! Do any of you have practical experience in any of these three areas? I'm all for the building up the soil aspect of the extensive composting/mulching in Back to Eden, sounds like its really low maintenance which I'm totally for finding the best way to utilize my time and still get really good results. And the tree companies around here will give free mulch. I like the dense plantings and building up the soil in Jeavon's method because I don't have a lot of land, denser plantings really are what I'd need, and well, Solomon's method on the surface makes sense but I really haven't read the whole book, so I can't say too much yet.
What gardening method do you REALLY think makes more sense in preparing for a TSHTF scenario? No store-bought amendments, no this, no that... only what is handy and can be composted. And that water question, how do you think water figures in... the more I think about this the more I think about Back to Eden.
Thanks!
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8. The Spa:
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=35607Eating out... 13 things waiters know (and won't tell you) by: Cat
User post: 13 Things Your Waiter Won't Tell You
Reader's Digest Magazine, on Tue Jun 23, 2009
Waiters share insider secrets about restaurants -- from tipping to what days to avoid dining out
1. Avoid eating out on holidays and Saturday nights. The sheer volume of customers guarantees that most kitchens will be pushed beyond their ability to produce a high-quality dish.
2. There are almost never any sick days in the restaurant business. A busboy with a kid to support isn't going to stay home and miss out on $100 because he's got strep throat. And these are the people handling your food. UGH!
3. When customers' dissatisfaction devolves into personal attacks, adulterating food or drink is a convenient way for servers to exact covert vengeance. Some waiters can and do spit in people's food.
4. Never say "I'm friends with the owner." Restaurant owners don't have friends. This marks you as a clueless poseur the moment you walk in the door.
5. Treat others as you want to be treated. (Yes, people need to be reminded of this.)
6. Don't snap your fingers to get our attention. Remember, we have shears that cut through bone in the kitchen.
7. Don't order meals that aren't on the menu. You're forcing the chef to cook something he doesn't make on a regular basis. If he makes the same entrée 10,000 times a month, the odds are good that the dish will be a home run every time.
8. Splitting entrées is okay, but don't ask for water, lemon, and sugar so you can make your own lemonade. What's next, grapes so you can press your own wine?
9. If you find a waiter you like, always ask to be seated in his or her section. Tell all your friends so they'll start asking for that server as well. You've just made that waiter look indispensable to the owner. The server will be grateful and take good care of you.
10. If you can't afford to leave a tip, you can't afford to eat in the restaurant. Servers could be giving 20 to 40 percent to the busboys, bartenders, maître d', or hostess.
11. Always examine the check. Sometimes large parties are unaware that a gratuity has been added to the bill, so they tip on top of it. Waiters "facilitate" this error. It's dishonest, it's wrong - and I did it all the time.
12. If you want to hang out, that's fine. But increase the tip to make up for money the server would have made if he or she had had another seating at that table.
13. Never, ever come in 15 minutes before closing time. The cooks are tired and will cook your dinner right away. So while you're chitchatting over salads, your entrées will be languishing under the heat lamp while the dishwasher is spraying industrial-strength, carcinogenic cleaning solvents in their immediate vicinity.
From Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by The Waiter (Ecco/HarperCollins)
http://shine.yahoo.c...ell-you-479179/More Must-Reads from Reader's Digest:
13 Things Your Pizza Guy Won't Tell You
http://www.rd.com/ad...icle122354.html 13 Things Your Grocer Won't Tell You
http://www.rd.com/li...icle118923.html(And 16 MORE tips!)
http://www.rd.com/li...icle119347.html13 Things Your Dry Cleaner Won't Tell You
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See what others had to say by going to the thread.
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9. Are You Really Ready
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=45106I want one of these! by: Mt_Rider
Hey lookie this...for those of us who are still 'farming' with limits of age, disability, or whatever.
http://www.builditso...ardenHelper.htm Solar Powered!
"This is a really innovative machine to help with garden chores like planting, weeding, and picking."
.....and the pic didn't show up. Well...go check out the site. Has handyman instructions on how to make it.
MtRider
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I want one of those too.
Snowmom
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10. Country Homesteading
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http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=44943From Birth through Kidding Goats
by: Necie
http://www.dairygoat...hp?topic=2077.0 Goat Keeping from Birth to milking, in standard dairy goats…
Goat Temp should be 102, always take a herd mates temp to determine if your goats temp is subnormal or high.
Shots:
Bo-Se (selenium, vitamin E injectable) 1cc. per 40 lbs. IM or subq is fine. Vet Rx
CD&T (Vaccination for enterotoxemia and tetanus) (2cc subq or IM, repeat in 21 days) that 2nd shot seals immunity so don't miss it.
Lysigin (Vaccination for staph mastitis, will also help with staph dermatitis on the udder) (5cc sub-q, Give initial shots before breeding the virgin doe repeat in 21 days (new bottle directions say repeat in 14 days). This is for initial shots on does and previously unvaccinated or virgin does pre-breeding. Once vaccinated they need one 5cc shot booster before kidding yearly.
CMPK injectable (calcium, mineral) (vet RX) 30 cc sub-q, 15cc in 2 places every 6 hours to treat hypocalcemia (see Sue Rieths articles on hypocalcemia in goatkeeping 101) or one 30cc shot in 2 places sub q for sluggish labor) also for milkfever (which is a doe who balks to get up after kidding, low temp, shivering, do not milk during treatment.
200mg Tetracycline (Biomycin etc.) We choose not to use LA200 because it contains a sting carrier in it for cattle. 3.5cc SubQ per 100 pounds. Once a day sub-q or it can be given as a loading dose IM in the very ill, every 12 hours, moving to once a day when fever is under control with banamine. Tetracyclines are gvien between 5 and 10 days depending upon what you are treating for.
300,000-unit water based Penicillin Penn/Aqueous 3 cc per 50 pounds SubQ. Once per day for prevention of wound infection or uterine infection, every 12 hours in an ill goat. There is so much resistance to penicillin that it isn't good for use with most disease, most breeders use it in conjunction with other antibiotics.
Wormers:
Cydectin Cattle Pour on 1cc per 22 lbs. orally
Valbazen liquid 1cc-10 lbs orally
Ivermectin Plus Injectable 1cc per 30 lbs orally (lung worms and liver fluke control, also controlling the 4th stage arrested larvae of HC that we use Cydectin for.
Ivermectin 1% injected at bottle dosages for lice, Mites and nose bots. Orally for stomach worms and lungworms. 1cc per 50 pounds orally .
Misc:
400 IU vitamin E capsules from Wal-Mart
Iodine-7% Iodine, Chlorhexideen, or equivalent pre surgery scrub to dip navels and cords.
Probios (a toothpaste tube type probiotic paste)
Lambar nipples, Lambar bucket
Corid, Deccox M, Dimethox 40% to be used orally for the control of cocci until they are old enough and eating enough medicated feed to control coccidiosis.
The day the Kids are born…
The day the kids are born give them their Bo-Se Shot. Most Nubian kids get 1/4cc I give it subq, they don't have muscle mass to give it IM.
Give 1- 400 unit Vit E Capsule when they are dried off, snip the end
and give orally. These are simply purchased at walmart.
Spray the hooves and navel with Iodine, or dip, using clean iodine each time. You can get iodine from your vet still, use only the 7%.
With iodine hard to find use chlorhexideen or other pre-surgery cleaner like betadine.
Give them probios. You will give them a pea size amount. Use your finger and swipe it through their mouth. Use up one tube on all the kids kept. Keep the tube refridgerated, do not buy it off an un-refridgerated counter in a hot store.
They need to consume about 20 oz of colostrum within 12 hours. Minimums are 1 ounce of colostrum per pound of kid. After which time they can be switched to milk.
Bucks, limit to 4 oz a feeding of their colostrum but still getting their 20 ounces in 12 hours.
More colostrum of course can be fed, just not less. And speaking of colostrum, highest quality of colostrum comes from your older does their first 12 hours of milking.
After 12 hours the kids ability to absorb immunity from the colostrum stops, colostrum however is very high in fat, high in calories and has a laxative effect to get the hard tarry meconium out of the intestine, expect to see first black tarry poop, then yellow colostrum poop, poop will then change to brown as they get onto milk. Other colors warn problems. Some kids can get yellow diarrhea from colostrum this is normal.
Heat treat the colostrum: In a double boiler heat the colostrum to 135 degrees, start timing for one hour. Your goal is to keep the colostrum no lower than 135, but no higher than 140 for the whole hour. Freeze your excess colostrum.
Pasteurizing milk: Heat the milk to 165 degrees. Stir it and make sure it is 165 degrees for 15 seconds. Cool and feed.
Move to milk that has been warmed to body temp. Make changes to chilled milk slowly; don't offer cold milk one day and warm milk the next. Consistency is key, if you miss a feeding do not then let them tank up on extra milk.
I put a pinch of baking soda per kid into each bottle or lambar, once a day.
Day 3 introduces the lambar buckets.
You should be feeding them at breakfast lunch and dinner and before bed,
unless they are tiny. Where they will need milk offered more often.
At day 20, start on Cocci prevention. Use Corid or your sulfa, dosages in goatkeeping 101 on dairygoatinfo.com once a day for 5 days then
repeat every 20 days until well grown and on meat goat pellets that contain their cocci med (decoquinate, rumensin, lasalocid, bovatec).
Day 20 Worm with Valbazen 1cc per 10lbs (this is for tapes) Important note is that my
babies are not in pens frequented by adults; so adult worms aren't a worry for me until my kids are older. If your babies are in with adults than you will have to worm them with your adult wormer, here Cydectin. Worming kids every 3 weeks until weaned and well grown is the best prevention, along with cocci, giving you healthy, robust kids that can be bred their first year. Do not wait for symptoms of cocci or worms and then use treatment, think prevention always.
For treatment of cocci always choose a sulfa and banamine, so you can continue the sulfa for 21 days.
Day 20 start their water, an easily tipped over bucket so they don't drown. Each year kids will drown in water troughs, barns will burn down from heat lamps and goats will be crushed under round bales or hung from the string around bales of hay.
Alfalfa pellets, meat goat pellets, their minerals and hay. I also move their milk down to 4 times a day. 4- 20oz bottles minimum or as much as they will drink. Once again make changes slowly.
Those big bodied deep does are the way they are because of calcium, as much milk as you can give them for as long as you can give them and grain. Grain is what grows that rumen...hay is what keeps that rumen healthy once grown, and calcium from birth to death is the most important thing in dairy goats. Why alfalfa in some form is key.
You will also trim feet when 3 weeks old. It's a given on management that each month goats feet are trimmed. It gets your hands on kids and dry does and bucks who can be forgotten if they aren't milked twice a day. Then also trimming feet is just a trim job and not a huge chore that gets put off.
Goats thrive on consistency. The same temp milk, the same feed each day, no changes at all, even to preferring the same people milk them.
At 45 days old (6 weeks) give round 2 of Corid for 5 more days; Give their CD&T injection. Worm.
At 67 Days (9 weeks) Give CD&T injection. Switch wormer to Cydectin.
At 12 weeks decide if you are ready to wean them. They should be eating 1 lb of grain. Kids should be gaining roughly 10 lbs a month so by breeding age they will be 80-90 lbs. If you are new to goats aim for 100 pounds before you breed. Worm with Cydectin. Do not wean kids you expect to breed this year from high calorie, high calcium milk to grass hay and sweet feed and expect them to continue this good rate of growth. Replace the calcium in the milk with alfalfa.
I give one more CD&T vaccination after 12 weeks old, to seal immunity. By then I am down to the few doelings I am going to keep.
From weaning to 8 months they should be over 90 pounds. Ready to be bred.
Minimum weights:
1 month, 10 pounds plus their birth weight
2 months, 20 pounds plus their birth weight
3 months, 30 pounds plus their birth weights
Etc…
If you are lower than this than don't blame it on slow to mature bloodlines, blame this on your prevention management and your weaning practices....
To early weaning?
Not enough milk?
Weaning from high calorie, high calcium milk to low to no calcium grass hay and pasture?
Now it's time to breed them……………..
Breeding Time………..
For arguments sake lets say your doeling was born in March and is now 90+ pounds and you want to breed her in October, to have kids in March.
In September I give all the virgin does I am keeping 5cc SubQ of Lysigin (a vaccination for staph mastitis, given to virgin heifers). I repeat this in 21 days. Now it’s October 1st and I am going to breed them this coming heat in October. This is also the time I use any other vaccinations or supplements I give at the farm. I do vaccinate for pasturella pneumonia using a vaccine with only pasturella haemoticula and multicidia in it, do not use nasal sprays, they do not carry the kind of pneumonia goats get.
Give the does their Bo-Se 1cc per 40 lbs
Trim their feet and go through the does one more time for faults, check for extra teats, single orifice in each teat etc.
Bucks 1 month before breeding give their Bo-Se 1cc. per 40lbs. Bo-se can cause a temporary lag in the motility of their sperm, this is temporary, so make sure their shots are about 4 weeks before you are using them.
Worm with Cydectin 1cc per 22 lbs.
First 50 days of being bred don’t DO ANYTHING to them NO Stress or
Changes. Implantation of the eggs into the uterus can be up to 14 days. Worming with anything, antibiotics, feed through products, can cause a doe to slip the egg and not implant it. Using wormers if you must for the health of the doe, pick one without a flukecide in it. Do not use Valbazen or Ivermectin Plus that contain products to kill liver flukes. Since you wormed before the doe was bred there should be little reason to worm the first 50 days of pregnancy, learn to fecal stop guessing.
At 100 days bred use Ivermectin Plus 1 cc per 30 lbs orally (this is for liver Flukes, lungworm, 4th stage HC.)
At 100 days pregnant stop milking if your doe is bred. With the decrease of calories from coming into the milk room to eat, and the stopping of milking, her udder will firm up. This will signal the brain to stop milking. Check her udder out in her stall each day. Make sure it does not get to full. If it does than simply ease a little milk out of each side. At no time should you bring her into the milk room, wash her udder, and stimulate her milk let down reflex. This floods the brain with Oxytocin and signals her to make more milk. Just a few squirts out of each side to soften the udder a little bit. Do teat dip her, and make sure she continues to stand for a few minutes.
Alfalfa pellets and grass hay or alfalfa hay are fed in the barn, they are continuous from birth to death as is minerals and water. But the move to not going into the milk room, means you do have to at 100 days bred offer them a small bite of grain for the energy and carbs they need to grow the kids. At 100 days bred the kids are small puppies and will grow in 50 days into the 8-pound kids she will have. Start slowly increasing her grain until at kidding she is eating what she will on the milk stand. 1 pound in the am and 1 pound in the pm with her alfalfa pellets in her barn could be your goal in Nubian's.
You will keep your young doelings on the same grain they grew out on until 100 days pregnant, then slowly switch them onto the milk stand grains you have chosen to use. Here it is simple, whole oats for their energy and carbs and calories, rice bran or black oil sunflower seeds, or oils for fat and soybean meal or a knock off of calf manna for their protein (if you use alfalfa hay with high protein no protein supplementation is needed) In fact if you have access to excellent quality alfalfa hay, no grain is needed. Minerals are always in the barn. Like the older milker paragraph above, you will increase their grain at 100 days bred slowly, up to what they will likely eat on the milk stand, 1 pound in the am and 1 pound in the pm.
Our humidity is high, even in the winter. We have few to no freezing nights that continue with even ice in the water buckets the next morning. So the keeping quality of alfalfa is poor. Feeding alfalfa pellets and our prevention for cocci and worms is key.
Once milking you will of course have to adjust their grain, some heavy milkers will eat twice this much.
120 days bred give CD&T 2cc Sub Q or IM
Lysigin shot 5cc SubQ.
This will not only bolster the doe but it will impart powerful immunity into her colostrum for the kids.
A week before kidding give the doe’s a dairy cut. Shaving the udder, belly etc. to make kidding, but also make milking cleaner.
Be careful letting heavy bred does jump up and down on the milk stands for their grain or for trimming feet.
Always keep your very heavy bred does feet trimmed.
Day of Kidding...
Have on hand CMPK injectable Vet Rx. This is for hypocalcaemia and sluggish labor.
200 ml Tetracycline antibiotic. This is for a uterine flush. Take some on gloved hand and swipe inside uterine wall. This is for a hard labor when you have to help move kids around, safety precaution. Making and infusion of tetracycline and sterile water (you can boil water to make it sterile or use distilled) and using your weak kid syringe and tube, you can easily flush the uterus yourself. Vets carry large dosing guns and less flexible tubing to flush the uterus with, it does a much better job than the above.
300,000 unit penicillin antibiotic 3cc per 50 lbs. Sub Q once a day for 10 days, take temp everyday, if temp goes up 3 cc per 50lbs twice a day. This is if there was a gross out situation during birth (Dead kids, way too much maneuvering of kids to get them out, parts of kids, mummy kids).
Oxytocin to bring down milk, or to help with contractions if calcium doesn't work. Never use Oxytocin on a closed cervix. This is a vet script use wisely. As little as 1/4 to 1/2 cc works well. All hormones are used IM only.
Lutelyse 2cc IM. Another vet RX that will abort your does, recycle your does, open the cervix back up to do a uterine wash, or make your doe come into labor on schedule.
Always worm your doe the day she kids. In the south wormings is always about HC worms so I use Cydectin.
10 days after kidding use Valbazen 1cc per 10 lbs. This is the only time I tape worm my adult does, milk withdrawal is 3 milkings, 36 hours. Tapes are of no consequence to the adult goat and being the only worm owners can see with the naked eye, they are the most problem for owners, not adult goats. I do this one worming since this time also coincides with appraisal and showing and having a lot of new folks at the farm for sales of kids, milkers and milk…so wouldn't want any tapes in the poop! I am now using Zemctrin Gold, 1cc per 50 pounds, for tapes but also 4th stage HC and lungworm.
This is always under construction......................................
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11. Pinching Pennies:
http://mrssurvival.c...hp?showforum=17
http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=44979pillsbury newsletter i got free soup!! by: windmorn
If you get the pillsbury.com newsletter, they have started giving away 10,000 samples each month. I just got a can of progresso mushroom and rice soup from the January give away.
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12 The Homeschooling Haven:
http://mrssurvival.c...hp?showforum=26 
http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=42394Early homeschooling Preschool, K, 1st grade by: michelle
Just wondering who here has a kindy or other early homeschooler? I'm homeschooling dd (5) for kindergarten right now and teaching some to ds (3). Anyone else here have an early homeschooler?
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13. DIY
http://mrssurvival.c...hp?showforum=15
http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=18495Make Your Own-Wooden Bucket, Rabbit Hutch, Etc. by: waiting
http://www.buildeazy.com/Free woodworking plans:
Shed, hall bench seat, padded seat, swing seat support, wooden bucket, wishing well, garden chair,
folding picnic table, artists easel, board and batten shed, narrow shed, kids castle, scrollsaw pattern,
mailbox stand, mailbox, fence gate, wall desk, working table, wheelbarrow planter, playhouse, rabbit
hutch, play fort, pushcart, workbench, gazebo, chicken coop, adirondack chair, pergola, porch swing seat,
wendy house, coffee table, picnic table 4, 6 or 8 seater, carport, greenhouse, dog house. Go to DIY complete plan list for other free plans. (Says wooden bucket not good for carrying water, but I think if lined with plastic it could be used for that.)
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This was bumped up about a year and a half ago, but, think it is interesting. Snowmom
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14. Holiday and Gift Central:
http://mrssurvival.c...hp?showforum=21 
http://mrssurvival.c...showtopic=38100 personalized gift baskets 99cents only store by: ROSARYCHAPLET
i went to the 99cents only store i bought the makings for two gift baskets. in them i put in coffee, creamer, wafer rolls, tea, powder mixes and christmas chocolate! as i was getting everything at the store i would simply place it in the basket i was buying there to see how it would look. then i bought from them cello wrap which included the bow. when i went home i showed my family what i did. then i proceeded to wrap up the baskets...and wouldn't you know it!!!! one of them still has the shopping reciept in it!!! omg! fortunately it's going to my b-i-l. i'll tell my sis to give me back the reciept upon removing the cello wrap!
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I wish you all a very Happy Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day.
To all who have someone graduating, Congratulations.
To everyone I missed wishing a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to.
Enjoy your Spring.
Snowmom
Now if anyone does not know what is ment by that, it is the 2nd New Moon in a month. 
and pray for them. 
, each and everyone who has ever served and are serving now. 
to everyone who has had a hand in making this site what it is today. 
Darlene for being here and being the owner of this site. 
I enjoyed this very much and you did a great job.
