Hi, we're Bob & Heidi Gilman. we're looking to share our experiences on a small hobby farm in Minnesota with all of you, there's Goats, Bunnies, Chickens and our dogs.
I make this sometimes, it tastes bitter but seems healthy. I think an active ingredient in it is hydroxychloroquine, a useful medication against malaria and viruses. I usually freeze it in an ice cube tray and take a cube each morning. Definitely only organic peel - a farmer told me all non-organic citrus is sprayed with a carcinogenic chemical fungicide called imazalil.
Great idea on the freezing in ice cube trays! You are right on the organic, I also here the non organic is now using Apeel. I bit of prep and preventive helps us to stay healthy! We also take vitamin C, D and zinc as preventative.
Your optimizemsome is indearing. But cl dont work that way.i hope you know it can go to their lungs and coughing and sneezing can in fect rest of herd. They can live along time with cl and be comfortable. But if trying to biuld a big herd. Not a good idea. There is vaccine now. But they will test positive after taking it. I. Still interrested in how tbis works out for you. I hope i. Wrong. Keep posting please
I have a small herd and I refuse to cull. Mine are happy at moment and no active cysts. There is so much biased information against livestock since the government does not appreciate us raising anything we could possibly eat that I do not trust it. I think we can heal them entirely if we try thinking outside the box. I can always put them down, so why cull if I don't rely on them for my livelihood and they seem happy?
Also, there are studies tht show that it is mainly spread by the goop in the cyst and not much via aerosol. Even NIH is pretty clueless about CL though so who knows.
So far they just keep getting healthier. I had an untreatable autoimmune disease in my early 30's. would have died if I didn't dig into it and try to figure out how to heal my body. I Have a very full and active life now in my 60's! So I think along the same lines for my animals. Fern has had only one small cyst in the last year. The others have been clear. I do understand it can be internal so I keep cleansing and detoxiong them. I seperate when the cyst is open and clean them up good before they return to the herd. I have a small group of only 6 goats so I feel this is manageable and these are pets, not for meat. I will keep posted if we have return of a problem, right now it is on the up side!
Well I brought in 1 animal that had it spread like wild fire, while I was still thinking was just a tick bite. Horses cattle,deer , people eat can get it. I decided for me ,after the struggle, that I now vaccinate and cull at first sign and parted with my older animals. Got it 2 years ago. Seems like I got rid of it finally? Hoping
The animal I brought I found out was extremely In fected in its lungs. Assume that why spread so fast and far rapidly. Was an emotional experience! And now that I can spot it, I see utubes where shearers are hitting it and people buying contaminated animals at auction. On e guy on utube knows his whole herd is contaminated. Says he doesn't care as long as he gets lambs to the sale barn? For me that's immoral. Certainly not anything I would want to spread.
Thank you for taking the time to post how you prepare your pup food. I agree it does take time. We rescued a two month old golden doodle, he is now 14 months. When we got him home he came with big bag of kibble and some canned food which he did not like. We were hand feeding it him it to get him to eat. We knew this was not going to be sustainable for him. We looked at other what options we had online and came across Just food for Dogs and Farmers dog, we tried them and he ate up everything. Only thing was that it would become so expensive to keep him on purchased fresh food. So I looked at the ingredients they used, then I saw they had DIY recipes, so I decided on the DIY with their vitamins packets. We kept him on the chicken recipe for his first year and recently moved over to turkey, beef, continued chicken with chicken, beef liver, gizzard, assortment of recipes from reputable veterinarians on youtube. We vary ingredients, we add sunflower, omega. Krill oil, ground up sesame, sunflower seeds, flax meal, variety of mushrooms the fruit part in powders, bone powder as toppers before feeding. We use sweet potatoes, pumpkin, quinoa, some brown rice, chard, spinach, peas, and so, so much more. We get him raw goat milk, he drinks this twice a day. There’s so much room for variety. Our pup is so healthy, he is about 25lbs and so, so strong, his physique is beautiful, he has such a well defined little body. His veterinarian said what ever we are doing to keep it up. I can’t see him eating any kibble, (he just doesn’t like it). So we are stuck making it. It is a lot of work, but we feel so good knowing he eats really, really well. So thank you for taking your time to post and show us. I understand you and appreciate what you do.
So glad you enjoyed the video. I agree, the home made food with all the natural healthy ingredients make all the difference with the dogs health and vibrancy! Just had my pups to the vet for their spring check up and the doggy chiropractor. Both were amazed in Max's transformation over this last year, from 25 lbs with difficulty walking to 13 lbs and running all over the place, walking for miles. It is a lot of work but I will continue to make the dog food as well! Hope your pup stays very healthy!
Glad it was helpful! It was quit an ordeal but I really feel I have a handle on it now. I think key points are having a place to seperate the goat when the cyst is going to rupture or get opened, cleaning them off before returning when it is done draining and scabbed and treating the goat in a whole fashion to get them cleaned out and more healthy.
The usual way to handle on a snowblower on gravel is to build up a base of compacted snow over frozen ground. Then snowblow on top of that. This way there is no gravel to catch in the blower.
I work for John Deere doing setup, biggest thing would be to drag or grade the driveway and adjust the skids so that the cutting blade is at its lowest clearing and foreseen obstructions. With this I would be afraid of it coming loose and binding in the system breaking shear pins which is not something I would not want to Increase the chances of in the cold weather. I need a fix for my kubota, my problem is my neighbor across the street has a gravel driveway and he pushes his snow across the paved road into my grass to I have gravel piles in my grass every year.
I do keep the driveways graded fairly smooth which helps minimize high points but I do snow-blow trails around the yard and back around the barn. last years pipe worked great for approx 30hrs of usage, I'm careful not to drag backwards with snow-blower down, but no issues with it coming off going forward. I have the pipe and the skid shoes at approx the same height so the pipe acts like one big skid shoe which helps as I put the 300lbs snow-blower in float mode while using.
You dont want to lower them to much, that will cause the machine to want to climb, adjust the skids just enough to clear and obstructions you can foresee.
thats a good thing to note, I have the shoes as low as they'll go and with the ABS pipe installed over the blade its a snug fit between the pipe and the ground while sitting on the shoes. While blowing I run the snowblower in hydraulic float mode and I'm getting a nice clean pass.
1-1/2" pipe, our local home improvement store Menards carries it in 5ft lengths. Best of luck! We might be getting our first plowable snowfall tonight. I'll try to capture some video with it tomorrow.
