Health (988)

Our first injury

We had our first known injury today.  Neighbors rang my doorbell when they stopped to visit the goats.  Apparently 6-month-old Ginger was running along the fence (chain link) and stopped in front of them.  Barbara noticed her foot was bleeding.  They

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piper lost a nail

So my ND Piper just finished her date with the buck Beau and I noticed her back toe (what is the hard top I called it the nail) was broken and loosely attached to the flesh underneath...Not sure what to do (it is an area about the size of a human thu

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CAE Testing

"My vet just told me I only need to test for CAE once in a lifetime not yearly like I thought. New goats without documentation would. I have been told all along this needs to be done annually and I believe most breeders require it. I am hoping to bre

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Banding Bucklings

I am getting ready to band my three bucklings and have been reading a lot about administering a tetanus toxoid. I am raising organically and wonder if there is anything else that can be used to stay organic or if I should just skip the tetanus toxoid

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mineral supplements

Thanks for letting me join! We have 3 does and I am trying to figure out the best way to have loose minerals and kelp available... We don't have a lot of space and I didn't really want to make a PVC feeder for each one as that would require 3... Howe

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Creaking Knees

I have a yearling doe who has had creaky knees for a few months now. Her dam's knees creak occasionally, but I have never heard her sisters' knees creak. Is this a deficiency in something? I have Golden Blend minerals and baking soda out at all times

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Does w/ messy poop

Hi guys...

I have 3 does- Penny & Annie are twin sisters, 5 y/o, Truffle is 1 y/o.  Day before yesterday when I let them out in the morning, there were nasty poops in the stall- soft, long turds with no pellets in  them (not clumpy pellets).  Truffl

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Too late to disbud??

Hello all,

I am new to goats, and we started with 2 does that were bred in March.  Only 1 of the 2 got pregnant and she gave us 2 beautiful doe kids.  The doe mom is polled and I checked the kids at 1 week and could not see or feel anything.

Now the

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Blood in milk?

Hi,
I'm new here, so I hope I'm posting this question in the right place...
Okay, here is the story,
I have a first freshener doe that had triplets 2 weeks ago.
She was a very bad mama (rejected the 2 bucklings), so we sold 3 kids as bottle babies.

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