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Comments (16)A few thoughts on your promblem. First make sure the vet is up to date on goats. They're different critters then horses and cows and not all small or large animal vets have a full understanding of them. I have been running about 130 head of goats for 10 years now. Have seen the problem a couple of time. I'm guessing founder myself. First question - Is the goat a big healthy goat on grain feed. If it is, take it off the grain and not the grass. If they have access to each others feed it may be eating more than it's share. Grain is the number one cause of founder and even more serious fatal problems. Is the goat walking on it's knees at all while it grazes? The hooves can be very hard but I have seen cases of founder where the hoof is quite normal. Whether it's founder or hoof rot the best treatment is to keep trimming the hoof a little each day or so until you get down to healthy pink tissue, but don't take so much off at one time that you cause the hoof to bleed. Scald usually looks like peeling around the hairline of the hoof and occurs in extra wet weather conditions so I doubt it's that. With time the goat should return to normal. But the most important thing to do with founder is to take them off all grain, not grass!! Been there and done it. Hope this helps....See MoreAbused goat
Comments (16)Goats are animals that by nature, head butt, slam, gore, bite, and generally harass their herd members. this is their nature, how they communicate control, determine who is the boss. It is not uncommon for goats to body slam one another halfway across the pasture because, well, just because. Hitting a goat on the head, unfortunately, has little effect on the goat. Butting heads is a game to goats. This is what goats do, with their head. Unless you have the strength to hit that goat literally to the ground, time and again, then again when they forget "whos boss", this is the WORST thing you can do, besides that you'd better not EVER turn your back on that goat cause you'll get it in the end. Not only that, it is animal abuse. I don't mind saying that whoever gave that advice to you is either not a very good goat person or has not owned goats for long enough to know this. The prod mentioned above is a better idea, the best idea would be to cull (as in kill) the aggressive animal. It is my understanding the aggressiveness shows normally after 2 or 3 years of age when they get full confidence. The worst tend to be (from my research) bottle fed intact males. Owning 7 intact bucks, I can say not one of them has ever tried to horn me, butt me, or treated me like a doe. This is because I bought from lines that are not aggressive, and I handled them accordingly from a young age. It's not really about engineering. It's really about genetics and rearing, breeder knowledge and choices. Nature and nurture. If you have an aggressive buck, why on earth would you breed that animal to pass that aggressiveness onto yet another generation of aggressive animals? I don't care how good of conformation, milk or meat the animal gives, it won't do you a dar n bit of good if you get seriously hurt while owning that fantastic yet aggressive animal. Oh and as far as defending himself, yes horns can be helpful, and may ward off a meandering predator, but only an aggressive horned goat with some weight behind him will save themselves from a serious predator and even then not something that is killing for hunger. Most would fall prey to the predator, the horns would only scare off half-hearted attemps to kill. One more comment; bucks do not need grain 2x a day. They need none at all. Urinary Calculi is a potential problem with bucks, a death sentence to wethers unless ammonium Chloride is given daily. For the health of your buck please research UC if you aren't aware of UC and bucks/wethers. Provide good quality hay, free choice minerals, plenty of fresh water and appropriate de-worming and he will do well. Brendasue...See Morea couple of ?? re: goats & chickens
Comments (23)Hi again Sorry it has taken me so long to give an update...Thanks for all your contributions.. I have always been one to look for opinions on both sides of the fence and I think this time I really hit the jackpot. About my goat (Lily) she made some initial improvement but then it got really cold so now she hardly puts weight on the that right leg at all. I have been giving her and Aspirin and Glucosamine every day for a little over a month now, and then last week I started giving her MSM every day. I have also been trying to put warm packs on it in the mornings and I try to rub it down and put some topical salve that is like bengay but also has glucosamine in it ( I got some for my Grandma and after talking to the gal at the store she was telling me that they tested in on goats so I thought I might as well try it). Anyway the left knee is really doing well but it's still just the right knee that keeps bugging her. With hoof trimming and such her hoof rot is gone--her hooves look great now and she gets around really well--she keeps the right knee bent and off the ground and walks or runs (at a pretty good clip too) on her other threee. She is eating and drinking better than she was at first, and she is really pretty playful and curious--which she really wasn't when I originally posted-- so I think maybe her pain is getting a little better. I am anxious to see if she will use it more in the spring once it warms up. Also I have an odd question about DMSO. Does anyone know if that is the same thing that gets instilled into people's bladders for various bladders diseases (like chronic cysts, stones in the bladder etc.)? Although I haven't done it recently, when I worked day shift (I work weekends now) at the hospital I work at now it seemed like we would instill that into people's bladders and leave it in for an hour and then drain it out. I am not exactly sure how it was supposed to help but I pretty sure its DMSO. If I were to use it on goats is it better to use a topical preparation or give it orally? As for my chickens they are great! Their is a light on for them all the time and I did start mixing 1 part chick starter, 1 part oats to 2 parts layer ration and egg productions was back up in just a few days. Thanks a bunch! Thanks again for all your comments and tips, and please feel free to contribute any new ideas! Have a great night--marie...See MorePygmy goat - AGAIN!!!!
Comments (4)I raised fainting goats for years, and still had landscaping around my pens. Unfortunately, keeping the landscaping also means keeping the goats in their own area and having good fences. My goats could be led through the landscaped areas quickly with food so that no damage would occur when moving them from pens to pasture. What I really liked about the goats was being able to tether a few in certain parts of my garden when the harvest was over. Goats got a treat, and I was saved the labor of cleaning it all up. Of course, make sure your goats are CD/T vaccinated before trying that. It could turn ugly if they should get "overeating disease". I now have sheep to work my stockdogs with and sheep are not nearly as fun. Cheers!...See MoreTurtle_Haven_Farm
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