Lamb and Kid Care

General Care Tube Feeding Orphans Tail Docking Castration Disbudding --> Lamb/Kid Diseases

General Care
[rev. 2001] Care of the Newborn Lamb - Ontario, Canada
[2002] Newborn Lamb Management - Virginia Tech
[2000] Baby Lamb Care Protocol - South Dakota State University
[PDF] Management at Lambing Time - British Columbia, Canada
The Wimpy Kid Page - GoatWisdom
Kid Care - Fias Co Farm
Raising Healthy Kids - Hoegger Goat Supply
Baby Care - GoatWisdom
Baby Lamb Processing - Pipestone Vet Clinic
[PDF] Colostrum and Health of Newborn Lambs - Iowa State University

Tube Feeding
[PDF, 2004]  Stomach Tubing Young Lambs - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Tube Feeding a Weak or Premature Kid - Hoegger Goat Supply
Stomach Tubing Weak Kids - Onion Creek Ranch
Tube Feeding Weak Kids - BoerGoats.com
[PDF, 2005] Tube Feeding Neonatal Small Ruminants - Washington State University
Tube feeding a kid - Goat-Link.com

Orphans
[1993] Artificial Rearing of Lambing on Milk Replacer Diets - Oregon State University | [PDF]
[1997] Profitable Artificial Rearing of Lambs - Virginia Tech
FAQ: Bottle Feeding Kids - Kinne's Mini's Pygmy Goats
Raising Kids on Cow Milk - Kinne's Mini's Pygmy Goats
Special Problems of Weak and Orphaned Kids - Kinne's Mini's Pygmy Goats
Raising Kids on Pasteurized Milk - Caprine Supply
Artificial Methods of Rearing Goats - GoatWorld.com
Bottle Feeding Newborns - GoatWorld.com
Kid raising - International Dairy Goat Registry
Raising Lambs and Kids Artificially [LOCAL]
[2004] Artificial Methods of Rearing Goats - New South Wales, Australia
[PDF, rev. 2006] Raising Orphan Lambs - Western Australia Farmnote

Tail Docking
Where to Dock Lambs
Tail Measuring Device Available
Sheep Tail Length - Ontario, Canada
Docking and Castration - PA Sheep Home Study Course
Tail Docking and Castration of Lambs - University of Sidney Vet Education and Info Network (VEIN)
Docking and Castrating - Sheep 201

Castration
Do I Castrate or Not - GoatWorld.com
How to Castrate - GoatWorld.com
All About Castrating and Urinary Calculi - Cornell University
Castrating Goats with a Burdizo Clamp - Cornell University (slide show)
Castrating Large Ram Lambs - Pipestone Vet Clinic
The EZE Bloodless Castrator As Alternative To surgical Castration of Feeder-Weight Ram Lambs
[PDF, 1993] Castrating Calves and Lambs - University of Arizona
Castrating Buck Kids - Langston University
Using an Elastrator for Castrating and Dehorning - Hoegger Goat Supply

Disbudding
Disbudding and Dehorning Goats - Onion Creek Ranch
How to Disbud a Kid Goat - Hoegger Goat Supply
Disbudding - Cornell Universitiy
Disbudding Your Goat Kid (slide show) - Cornell University
How to Disbud (Dehorn) Kids - Fias Co Farm
Disbudding - Kinne's Mini's Pygmy Goats
Build a Disbudding Box - Kinne's Mini's Pygmy Goats
Disbudding Kid Goats - Is it Commercially Applicable? - Texas A&M
Why Horns ? - International Dairy Goat Registry
Disbudding - GreatGoats.com
Disbudding a Goat: A Difficult but Advisable Procedure - Black Mesa Ranch
Disbudding Kid Goats (PowerPoint presentation in PDF)
Build a Kid Holding Box - BoerGoats.com

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