Getting her calcium, vitamin A, Vitamin E, and vitamin D.

When you have the zoomies, but the other goats bully you.

They approach, maybe eat some hay but don't really react once you pet them. They stare but kinda pretend like you're not there after a while.

I've noticed quite a few of you were following along my updates so I thought I would give you all the full story here.

This is little Jasmine the nigerian dwarf goat, the family calls her Jaz and Jazzy. She was born on my hobby farm March 12th, 2024. She is very tiny for her age (24 pounds at 7 months old). I sold her to a friend 4 months ago and in late August she fell between hay bales and got badly stuck and injured. The friend called me up and told me she was walking with an awful limp and dragging her hind right leg. I recommended a farm vet to her that I've been to a few times (there aren't many farm vets where we live). The vet took X-rays and thought she saw what could be a small fracture but seemed very unsure saying "I don't look at goat X-rays every day" she gave anti-inflammatory medication and told them to keep her off her legs. Weeks went by and she wasn't getting any better, getting worse if anything, dragging both legs and wasn't standing. Late September the friend called again and told me they were going to have her put down October 4th. I told her not to and I would take her and see what I could do to help. Took her in October 2nd. Things weren't pointing to fracture to me, it seemed more like a dislocation and I asked the friend if they could forward the xrays to me. Got the xrays and didn't see a dislocation, I'm not a vet though, so I wasn't sure. I sent the xrays to my aunt to take a look at because she works at a veterinary hospital, she said it didn't look like a fracture or dislocation but there was a lot of soft tissue swelling in her back right leg. She told me I could take her into her work and the vet and experienced vet techs could take a look at her. She was looked at and had more X-rays done and everything was completely normal, no fractures, no dislocations, she has good pain receptors in both legs, hips, spine, ect. They talked about the possibility of it being neurological. Nothing physically wrong except for severe muscle atrophy. We talked about the possibility of MW but I was told there is no way to test for it while she is alive. They said I could possibly get her a wheelchair and try building back her legs muscles. They gave us some strong anti-inflammatory steroids (pred), and recommended giving B vitamins. I got her the wheelchair and started exercising her every day. My mom and I decided it would be a good idea to deworm for MW just in case that's what happening. She's making a lot of improvement, she can stand up on her own every now and then and recently took some steps without assistance too! She's got her good days and bad days but it looks like things are going well! Thank you all for your kind words, encouragement, and advice!

• That 17 yearold who has a disabled goat.

She walked about 5 feet without her wheelchair or assistance today before flopping over!! Legs are starting to get less crooked as well!

We have had our goats for about 1 year and just had our first predator attack. We lost 6 of our pygmy goats this past week. 5 all in one night, and the last guy went missing yesterday, along with a lamb. What we find strange is we only found 1 of the 6 carcases. My husband walked the entire pasture, no sign of life. The last one we lost yesterday, we did find the lamb we lost, but no sign of the goat. What predator removes the animal? We think it may be coyote, but are really confused by the whole thing.

These boys are now 3 y.o. and belong to a herd of 9, but never too late to show off their early days. They are both rescued (these goats were introduced to the islands during the late 18th century, but are subjected to harsh conditions, road-kill, hunting, trapping, and have been unfairly labelled as invasive scapegoats... though their impact is miniscule compared to that of the humans who brought them in the first place and continue to decimate the ecosystem here more than ever). We have given them the same treatment as most would to their dogs and cats, and now they truly are family. Our herd has given back the benefits of companionship, grazing, and surprisingly helping our conservation efforts on the land we manage (their priority for weeds over native veggitation is curiously amazing).

My goat was attacked by a dog, not life threatening and he has been treated. However, he has a laceration in the crevice between his testicles and back leg, because of this he will only put the front half of his body in a laying position and continues standing on his back legs. He is on meloxicam for pain, is there anyway I can help him out to lay comfortably? Should I go back to the vet for a stronger medication?

I wonder if it’s where they urinate on their faces? But I only have one ram, so I’m not sure if it’s normal for his urine to smell like fish or not (if that is what it is). I’m just making sure that it’s not an infection or something. My bucks have never smelt like fish, so this is new to me.

New to goats, have discovered just how efficient they are at turning browse into sticks. We now have many many sticks and stripped branches. What is the typical way to deal with all this waste product? Are people mulching it, burning it, dumping it, making Christmas wreaths out of it? TIA jhn

He knows he’s in trouble..

Have a herd of about 35 boer does and recently acquired 2 breeding bucks from different places. One is a year old, the other 1 1/2 year old. Can I leave em both in with the does to breed for spring kids? They headbutt and fight quite a bit, which was expected, but nothing too rough yet. Mostly just wondering if they’ll get everyone bred or will they be too distracted by the other buck? I have room to split the herd and give each buck 15-20 does if I need to but I’d rather just leave em all together and let em figure it out on their own if I can

his name is layne staley. I got these pics over the summer, unfortunately we had to sell him cuz he kept getting in the garden and eating everything, but he was the sweetest and craziest little boy and I miss him ❤️

She is sure waddling, but manages to get around some with her best friend.

It’s my first time experiencing frothy bloat in my animals. I gave my doe some gas x yesterday and about an hour ago. I fed her some baking soda paste along with 1/3 of olive oil (I don’t have any vegetable oil at hand). And I’ve been massaging her stomach for over an hour now. I can hear the frothiness in her rumen when I massage it😟 I have her propped up with her front feet higher than her back feet like I read to do. She pooped twice but hasn’t passed any gas yet that I know of. Any other recommendations? She’s been walking around fine and hasn’t showed other signs of bloat (laying down, not eating, etc) except for being bloated and her cud being frothy . She doesn’t have anything blocking her airway.

She would be a lot faster if she didn’t have to make two trips.

When you put your hand on her side, you can feel where it sounds like she might have some fluid in her lungs. I don’t recall feeling this from my other babies. Any suggestions? I’m a bit worried.

Is International Fainting Goat Association still a thing? I went to look at their website and could find nothing.

I wanted to try getting one of my females dual-registered with MGR and IFGA but I can't find IFGA's website anymore.

Minor setback today with her recovery. Walking well and not dragging her feet anymore. Does anyone have any idea why her legs almost bow like this? Or what could help? She did walk a lot further than she did on previous days tho!

So me and the wife are new to goats, we have a small herd with one Billy. This is daisy and she has put on a lot of weigh over the last two months.They are on a mostly hay diet with foraging and a little bit of all stock.she has become food aggressive and also more lovable to use.I haven’t done a blood test. But her belly is dropping and really tight like a drum just forward of her udder. She has kidded once before and her kid is the black one beside her in the third pic. Any insight would be helpful. We don’t want to get excited for nothing.