Pretty sure it's CL

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Like @Southern by choice and @One Acre Farm said those doesn't look like CL locations; but it never hurts to have them tested. Kids can be exposed to it at birth but it is usually from exposure to the pus from an active abscess on another goat. The fact that you got them so young is good as it gave them less chance to be exposed to any goat that might have CL. Of course, not fool proof, but just increases your odds of getting healthy animals.

I have a doeling and 2 other does that all have cheek abscesses, probably from the last batch of hay I bought. They all showed up at the same time and one has gone away after about 6 weeks. The one on the doeling is about ready to burst I think. It could be foxtails or some other weed in the hay. Poor girls. I tried sticking my finger in their cheek pocket to look for a sticker, but couldn't feel much.
 
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