Oh my gosh I feel so horrible! One of our boys has hair loss on the front of three legs where he obviously curls them under to sleep and has granular looking skin around the base of his legs near his hooves!
I've checked all the other goats and they are fine. Any thoughts??
I'm getting ready to call the vet but wanted your advice if it is something I can do here.
We live in Northern Vermont where there is still snow on the ground so I thought it was too early for "bugs"... :(
Appreciate your advice!
Donna
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Yea but wish I had used gloves before I sprayed it on...LOL
Great, I figured that would help too! Blu Kote is another of the great old timey wonders! Like black salve!
Me too!!! I don't like to see my "critters" not 100% :( Sprayed blue coat on his legs yesterday and today its still there and NO purple mouth..ya!
Glad to hear you can see improvement so quickly!!
So happy that even the day after washing his legs and using "RESCUE" a german made cream for everything ( the only thing I had in the house) his legs already looked better! I found the pour on wormer as well, so happy I found it at my first stop..:) Again thank you SO much!!!
Also, seeing as it's a wether, and NOT peeing on himself, it's probably NOT scald... I like everyone's advice about treatment.
I would still treat the same way, if I thought there were any chance it were mites... I didn't treat my boys and they cleared up just from not being so stinking NUTSO during rut, once the peeing on themselves thing slowed down.
No I've had him for three years and since he was a kid wethered at 4 months. I've never seen him pee on himself plus its on his back legs too. I washed his legs with warm water mixed with an benidine tonight and rubbed on some ointment. Tomorrow morning I am in search of all the suggestions you had which I'm going to get all of them to stock my medicine cupboards!
I so appreciate your expertise, I just love our boys. We hike with them on our 11 acres of woods and they help keep down the pricker bushes..:)
I think that is a possibility too, Rachel! And I would say that the exact same treatments would be beneficial, wouldn't you? I don't have experience with it but was thinking that you had mentioned a similar treatment you had used!
That looks a lot like Urine scald to me... if it were on a buck, that's what I would say it is. Since it's on a wether (and not a newly wethered, wether?) And yes, Margaret, bucks get that on their scrotum. Mine get that on their back legs from peeing all over themselves in the middle of Rut season.
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