03/06/2025
**Bottle Babies!**
10% discount if you bring your receipt from Tricounty showing you got your Items there!!
Anyone getting babies from us, Tri-County Farm Services is our local feed store in Hernando and we gave Tyler the list of things to bundle for anyone just getting started with baby goats!
Here are some quick things we recommend to get you prepared for your new babies, most things can be found there!
-Thermometer! If you tell me a baby is acting off, this will be my very first question. Their temperature should be 101.5 - 103.5 and high or low tells me what the next step is!
-Pritchard ni***es- these are the kind of ni**le our babies are used to using. The little yellow and red ni***es that can screw on a 20oz coke bottle. These should be at the feed store! Grab you a couple just incase and I have a video up under our videos to show you how to cut them.
-Priobios powder- any kind of probiotics will work but the powder you can easily mix in the bottle! We recommend one bottle a day, especially while transitioning to whole milk
-Power Punch- I love this stuff! We recommend mixing in one bottle a day (about 3cc per baby) especially while swapping to whole milk.
-Vitamin B complex- this is an infection and the needles and syringes we recommend should be on the wall next to the counter at tricounty. Vitamin B can help with appetite, and seems to help for many many things for both babies and adult goats. It can save a baby who gets polio/listeriosis. One of the things we recommend having on hand at all times just incase. Vitamin B and Probiotics will likely be two of my first recommendations for a baby not acting right!
CDT- The first 2 CDT shots are including in the cost of your kid if you bring them back to me at 6 weeks and 10 weeks. After that it’s a once a year shot. Or if it’s easier and you are confident, you can buy the bottle from the refrigerated section at Tricounty.
If you choose not to vaccinate you NEED to keep both CD Antitoxin and Tetanus Antitoxin on hand at all times for emergency. The CDT Toxoid helps prevent disease and takes 3 weeks to start to build in their system. Antitoxins cover immediately and work for treatment if they do get the disease. It’s very important to know the difference and understand the importance of either giving CDT or keeping the emergency alternatives on hand.
Ibuprofen- this is a human medicine you can use for a fever reducer in a pinch if you cannot get to the vet.
We prefer banamine which is vet only. We highly recommend establishing a relationship with a vet NOW before an emergency happens.
Robitussin- plain robitussin for people is safe to use for snot and congestion from the crazy weather we have been having. We don’t tend to worry much if there is no fever or behavioral changes
