Triple Hearts Ranch

Cidr pull yesterday and flagging today-Excited about this breeding!

Tex x Merica

*UPDATE- he has a new bottle holder*
Have a super cute male Nigerian cross bottle kid available by Thursday for FREE if anyone wants him, let me know!!
Again, he will be free- spread the word
I have too many bottle kids on my plate

Victory

As I continue to catch up on my introductions, next is Victory! She is bred GOLDWAITE through and through 🤩

This girl came to the ranch from Colorado this year as a young doe kid with great potential!

Thanks to White Fields Nubians for sending this girl South to me, I have big plans for her !

We need a day of silence, or several.

It’s been a tough day here at the ranch. If you’ve reached out to me and it can wait, please understand we are unexpectedly mourning a dear family member that was born and hand raised here for 4 years and VERY MUCH loved.

Not much has been done here other than lots of tears and snuggling on the couch hiding from the world.

Prim loves her Mako and insisted he come in. I couldn’t tell her No, so we all hid under the blankets today and attempted to shut out the world. Life is hard. Especially lately with the passing of Tipper, then Bambi and now Daz.

Pray for us, it’s hard right now.

And another round of CIDRS are IN!!
Can’t wait to decide what straws to use 🤩🤩

FAIL

So much for that 200 lb weight rating…
🤦🏼‍♀️

Someone asked me why I will not being using “preventatives” for screwworm….

I WILL be using many preventatives actually.

So let’s talk about what I will actually NOT be doing.

What I will NOT be doing nor recommending ANYONE to do is use ivermectin and/or dectomax in any form-injections, pastes or feed additives.

“WHY NOT?!”

As stated by TAHC and others who have put the work behind the research, Ivermectin is only effective against ONE stage of the screwworms 4 life cycle, which only lasts 24 hours.

What this means- if you are feeding it daily in a feed, chances are the correct dose is not even being administered as you cannot guarantee the right amount consumed by each animal. If you are giving any other way, you are gambling with an effective class of dewormers that you are hitting it correctly only in the stage it can be affected by this treatment.

Ramifications of using Ivermectin/dectomax :
You are allowing a build up to resistance to this class of drugs, not only by the screwworm but other GI parasites such as Barberpole worms.

You are also interfering with natural lifecycle of multiple insects that will be killed by the ivermectin, such as dung beetles, and the domino effect continues, unbalancing the ecological stability of the environment.

There are many other simple things that can be done that does not allow ivermectin resistance to happen. Don’t do it. There any better ways, our environment and our parasite susceptible animals need ivermectin to still be an effective wormer in our future

Bottle kid problems 😆

I mix half red cap milk with half Does Match once we are close to weaning!

Walmart probably wonders what I’m doing, every 4 days, with this much milk 🤣

What a majestic creature he is 🥰