Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

[Cecilia's-life]

Fleas here too. Those flea pills that last 3 months, Bravecto, have JUMPED up in price! Paid $60 each for Trip and Carson.

I noticed that too! $114 for a 12 pack of Interceptor (heart worm)! Frontline (F&T) jumped up in price too. Ridiculous lol.

 

[tortoise]

Fleas here too. Those flea pills that last 3 months, Bravecto, have JUMPED up in price! Paid $60 each for Trip and Carson. Sentry's was less, don't remember. Sheba is still good from the last one she got. Horrible fleas! Horrible prices on Flea chews. Chews that incidentally, Trip and Sentry don't like. Sentry grins at me, curling up his lip and the smell and won't come to me. LOL LOL So I mince them up in little pieces and mix them with chicken. No curling lips then!

I use Nexgard, which is the 1-month version of Bravecto from a different manufacturer. Baymax can't chew or swallow them so I chop them up and hide them inside of pill pockets. The things we do for our big babies...

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

I use Nexgard, which is the 1-month version of Bravecto from a different manufacturer. Baymax can't chew or swallow them so I chop them up and hide them inside of pill pockets. The things we do for our big babies...

This is what we use too. Pretty easy to give

 

[NH Homesteader]

Wow I don’t use the chews because they’re so dang expensive… apparently next year won’t be the year I start my LGDs are so picky, I have a hard time getting them to take their heart worm pills, funny how giant dogs that think sheep poo is fine dining won’t eat them, but my spoiled rotten house dogs will

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Dog farmer one day - goat farmer today. Chloe is now minus the point of the scur that was beginning to press into her face. It wasn’t nearly as tough a job as I had anticipated. Thank goodness! I was able to get off about an inch and as luck would have it- no blood! It looks like it was really close though. Glad to have that done.

Also made a butt load of pumpkin spice cupcakes. Ehh - they're good, but not great. But, I generally feel that way about anything I spend all day cooking.

Regularly getting 12 - 15 quail eggs a day. I desperately need to make some pudding. Seems like when I'm milking and hens are generous I make it several times a week - sugar free of course. It's still pretty darn good. I need to dig out my recipe.

Lucy looks like she might win the race to be the first doe to kid. Tomorrow I'll work on cleaning out the kidding pen that the horses have taken over. They'll get kicked out to the pasture and the poop will be removed and replaced with fresh shavings. I'm thinking about re-doing that kidding pen into two kidding pens. It's about 6 x 10 and two 6 x 5's would be plenty big enough. Eh - we'll see how much material I can scrounge.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Sounds like a productive day! Can't wait to see baby kid pics! I will enjoy through you and the rest on here as DH says "not yet" lol

 

[NH Homesteader]

I’m excited for kid pics!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Can't wait to see baby kid pics!

I’m excited for kid pics!

Me too! I don't have exact breeding dates on everybody so it's a guessing game, lol! Soon I hope!

Today is for stall cleaning, critter re-arranging and cooking.

 

[Medicine Woman]

I am a few posts late with this but I don’t buy Trifexus to control the fleas anymore. So like I am a nurse and herbalist so I make things and once I was talking to DD1, who has a masters degree in biology and works in the science department at our nearest university and I was telling her that I would like to cheat and discover the name of the generic medication in Trifexis because sometimes I mix my own pain cream instead of paying $200 for 8 ounces of Lidocaine cream, etc.. among other things so we say goodbye and a few minutes later she calls me back. She did all the research and told me to buy spinosaid, the active ingredient in Captain Jack’s Deadbug. Only problem was I had to figure out how much to give and I knew I was giving poison to the dogs but then again so was the vet . I know this will sound bad but I decided to try it on the oldest mutt we had that was an outside dog and I absolutely couldn’t train him to do anything except sound the warning and kill snakes. I noticed 5ml didn’t hurt him but also wasn’t enough. He weighed 53 pounds. So I gave 5 more and that did the trick so he began getting 10 ml about every 3 months and ivermectin to control the heart worms. Then I simply adjusted the amount for smaller dogs or bigger. I gave horse ivermectin in small amounts for the dogs as well. Several friends and family followed my plan and ordered the same stuff as me. It helped the households with multiple dogs in particular. Mind y’all if y’all wanna do this I would make very sure as to the dosage. I was fortunate at that time not only to have a history of needing to get correct dosages for patients in various forms but also I wasn’t then working as a nurse but as a bridge tender and my coworker had previously been a veterinarian assistant and gave me pointers on the ivermectin dosage. She said for a toy dog to give the amount of horse paste as a split pea but for a large hound to give the size of a white bean. She told me a single horse wormer will last me at least 3 years even if I worn the whole neighborhood. But I also treated fleas in the whole neighborhood. The dogs went around killing fleas in all our yards.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

@Medicine Woman - Thanks!